Turtleneck sweater: Tunisian crochet

Material

Tunisian crochet 6mm

Circular needles 5mm

7 x 85g yarn (180m)

Finished size

Lenght body: 62 cm

Lenght sleeves: 66 cm (from neckline)

Widht shoulders: ~41 cm

Widht body: 50 cm

Circumference body: 96 cm, stretches easily until 104 cm

Circumference sleeves: 37 cm

Stitches

Honeycomb stitch :

Gauge 10cm x 10cm = 26 st x 14 rows

Knit Stitch:

Gauge 10cm x 10cm = 15 st x 17 rows

Note well

• See the outline for any doubt about the pattern.

• First row Tunisian stitch (no matter what stitch you use) foundation row:

  1. Row 1: Take the crochet through the first chain stitch. Yarn over and pull up a loop. Keep that loop on the crochet. Repeat in every chain stitch until the end of the row.

  2. Return row: Yarn over, pull up one loop. Yarn over, pull up two loops. Repeat that last step until the end of the row.

Body

Front

1. Cast on 68 st.

2. Row 1 to 50: Honeycomb Stitch.

3. Row 51 to 74: decrease at the end and at the beginning of each return row. At the beginning of the return row, yarn over and pull up a loop in the first two loops. At the end of the return row: yarn over and pull up a loop in the three lasts loops.

4. Cast on from the 50th row, on the right side of your work, 70 st. Crochet single crochet in the 70 st you casted on and the 50 st from the front piece.

5. On the next 6 rows, crochet half double crochet.

6. Last row has to be done on the last stitch on the bottom of the body.

7. Sew, with a needle tapestry or your crochet, the 50 st from the bottom up of right side of the front piece with the 50 st from the bottom up ofthe left side of the front piece.

Back

1. Do the same as the front piece.

2. Sew the right side of the back piece with the left side of the front piece.

Sleeves

1. Sleeves begin at the neckline.

2. Cast on 23 st.

3. Row 1: Tunisian crochet foundation first row.

4. Row 2: Knit Stitch, Tunisian crochet, add one st at the beginning by doing two loops in the same st and add one stitch at the end of the row by doing the same thing.

5. Row 3: Knit stitch, Tunisian crochet.

6. Row 4 to 26: alternate row 2 and 3.

7. Row 27 to 97: count 9 rows and at the 10th row, decrease one stitch at the beginning and at the end of the return row.

8. At the end of the last 10th decrease, you must have 32 st.

Needlework

1. Sew each side of the sleeve with the front and the back pieces.

If any doubt, refer yourself to the outline at the bottom of the page.

Rib; sleeves

1. With 5mm circular needles, pick up 40 st (32 st from the sleeve and 6 st from the half double crochet).

2. Row 1 to 20: rib 1x1: knit 1/ purl 1.

3. Row 21: elastic bind off.

Collar

1. With 5mm circular needles, pick up 90 st on.

2. Row 1 to 40: rib 1x1.

3. Row 41: elastic bind off.

Tunisian stitches

For the body: Honeycomb stitch

1. Row 1: Foundation row.

2. Row 2: skip the first st. Insert your crochet under the vertical bar, on the second stitch, in the front of the work. Yarn over, bring back the yarn under the vertical bar. This is a tunisian simple stitch. (TSS) Then, on the third stitch, bring the yarn towards you (front of the work). Insert your crochet under the vertical bar, yarn over, bring back the yarn under the vertical bar. This is a tunisian purl stitch. (TPS) Keep alterning those two st until the end of the row. Return row.

3. Row 3: skip the first st. TPS on the second st, TSS on the third st. Keep alternating those two until the end of the row. Return row.

For the sleeves: Tunisian knit stitch

1. Row 1: foundation row.

2. Row 2: insert your crochet between both vertical bars of the first st. Yarn over, pull up A loop. Do the same until the end of the row. Return row.

Outline

Front and back pieces Sleeves