Zippered Top With Floral Motif – Crochet Pattern

Summer means flowers and bright colors. Both are present in this beautiful, romantic jacket.

Sizes
38/42

YOU WILL NEED
Yarn (50% viscose, 50% polyacrylic; 106 m/50 g) — 300 g of white, and 50 g each of light green, blue, tangerine, yellow, pink, bright pink, and emerald; crochet hook size 4; circular needles size 5; a white separating zipper, 30 cm long; a decorative zipper pull with silver rhinestones.

Patterns and Schemes

Main Pattern
Crochet using double crochet stitches (dc). Begin each row with 3 turning chain stitches instead of the first dc and end with 1 dc in the 3rd turning chain stitch of the previous row.

Floral Pattern
The number of starting stitches is a multiple of 11 + 1.

Work according to the chart. Begin with the stitch before the repeat section, repeat the pattern section continuously, and end with the stitches after the repeat.

Work rows 1–12 once, then repeat rows 7–12 continuously. When following the color sequence, begin each new color with row 1 (right side) according to the chart.

Color Sequence
Work 3 rows each with light green, blue, tangerine, yellow, pink, bright pink, emerald, light green, tangerine, pink, blue, yellow, bright pink, tangerine, and emerald yarn = 45 rows.

Stockinette Stitch
Knit rows — knit stitches, purl rows — purl stitches.

Gauge
18 stitches x 10.5 rows = 10 x 10 cm, worked in single crochet stitches;
23.5 starting stitches x 10 rows = 10 x 10 cm, worked in floral pattern.

Pattern schematic

WORKING INSTRUCTIONS

Back
With white yarn, make a chain of 82 chains + 3 turning chains and work in the main pattern.

For extended shoulders, after 33 cm from the starting row, increase 1 stitch on each side every 2nd row 8 times, following the pattern = 98 stitches.

After 51 cm from the starting row, leave the central 28 stitches unworked for the neckline and continue working the right side first.

To shape the curve on the inner edge, leave 1 stitch unworked in the next row = 34 stitches.

After 53 cm from the starting row, the shoulder line is reached (mark it!).

Then, for the yoke of the front pieces, continue working across the shoulder line for another 9 rows using Pattern 1. In the 6th and 8th rows from the shoulder line, leave 1 stitch unworked on the right edge = 32 stitches.

After 8.5 cm = 9 rows from the shoulder line, finish this part.

Finish the left half as a mirror image.

Left Front
With light green yarn, make a chain of 56 chains and work in the floral pattern, following the color sequence.

After 33 cm = 33 rows from the starting row, to shape the neckline on the left edge, evenly decrease 2 pattern repeats over the next 12 rows. To do this, skip the last ½ flower of the row 4 times after rows 9 and 12 of the pattern.

At the same time, for the extended shoulder, after 33 cm from the starting row, increase 1 pattern repeat evenly over the next 12 rows on the right edge.

After 45 cm = 45 rows from the starting row, finish this part.

Right Front
Work in the same way as the left front, but in a mirror image.

Assembly
Sew the yoke pieces onto the slightly gathered top edges of the front pieces.

Sew the side seams, leaving the top 21 cm open for the armholes.

For the sleeve edges, use white yarn to pick up 80 stitches with the needles and work 10 rows in stockinette stitch, then bind off the stitches loosely. Sew the cast-on edge of the sleeve band to the armhole (place the top loops of the cast-on edge at the top). Sew the sleeve bands together.

For the front and back neckline bands, use white yarn to pick up 260 stitches with the needles, work the bands as for the sleeve bands, and sew them on.

Remove the original zipper pull with pliers and attach the decorative pull. Sew in the zipper, tucking it under the front edges so the band can curl outwards.

Using doubled white yarn, make two 30 cm long chains and sew them on the inside to cover the zipper tape on both sides.