Long cardigan Fenna

PATTERN BODY:

Chain 125 on hook size 8 mm

WORK 1ST ROW AS FOLLOWS: 1 sc in 3th ch from hook, 1 sc in next ch, remain = 123 sc on row, turn piece.
2ND - 90 nd ROW: Work 1 sc in every sc = 57 cm.

Now we making the armholes.

RIGHT FRONT PIECE:
Start from RS and work 24 sc from mid front, turn piece, (i.e. there is an opening in the side of 8 sc for armhole), decrease in 19 rows 10 stitches ( 5 st for the neck and 5 for the armhole)

Decrease for the armhole 1 stitch in rows 4, 8, 12, 16 and 19.

Decrease for the neck 1 stitch in rows 11, 13, 15, 17 and 19

BACK PIECE:
Start from RS in 8 th sc after right front piece (i.e. there is an opening in the side of xx sc for armhole), and work 59 sc, turn piece, work 19 rows with sc over back piece.

Decrease for the armholes on both sides 1 stitch in rows 4, 8, 12, 16 and 19.

Decrease for the neck in row 18 21 stitches in the middle of the piece. You have on both side 15 stitches.

In row 19 you decrease one stitch for the armhole. You have 14 sc for the shoulders on both sides.

LEFT FRONT PIECE:
Start from RS in 8 th sc after back piece and work over the remaining 24 sc as on right front piece

LONG CARDIGAN FENNA

What do you need:
YARN: 7 balls of Fenna van de Wibra, color no. 5445,  € 1,99 100 gram, 240 m, acryllic

CROCHET HOOK:  size 8 mm or size needed to get 13 sc x 12 rows vertically = 10 x 10 cm  and crochet hook size 4 mm

Scissor

Sewing needle

Transparent sewing yarn

SIZE:  m/l
Finished measurements:

Length: 81 cm

Front piece : 24 cm

Back piece : 54 cm

Length sleeve :45 cm

NOTE:

• This pattern is written in American English.
• We crochet the front and the back together. Body worked back and forth from mid front.
• The size of the vest is european 38/40 for women.  All measurements in charts are in cm. If this size doesn’t fit you, you can easily make it bigger. Just chain more in the beginning.
• Cardigan doesn't close in the front.  

ASSEMBLY BODY:
Lay the front and back pieces together with right side to right side and sew the shoulder seams together.

EDGE:

 Notes:

• Use hook number 4
• Start in the neck on the right Side
• Start the row with 3 ch ( = sc+ 1sc) end the row with a slip stitch in the second ch.
• Stitches are worked into the ch-1 spaces, NOT in the loops of the actual stitches.
• Don’t turn the work.

Pattern edge

For the edge we use the linen stitch. Its giving the edge a woven look.

The linen stitch is basically a repetition of *sc,ch*, working into the ch-1 space formed by the ch-1’s in the previous row.  

Start every row with 2 ch ( this is the first sc) End the row with a slip stitch in the second ch of the first sc.

Row 1: Hook for the edge *sc,ch* . Approx 160 sc and 162 ch in every stitch or row and in the corners (sc, 2ch,sc,ch).

Except

• Skip on the bottom every twelfth loop of the chain. Approx 55 sc and 55 ch without the corners
• Skip on the front sides every eight row. Approx 78 sc and 78 ch
• Corners in The front pieces. In the corners (sc, 2 ch,sc, ch)

Row 2-6 linen stitches and in the corners (sc, 2 ch,sc, ch)

SLEEVE:

BS = both sides

Inc= increase

Dec= decrease

Twice:

Chain 32 on hook 8

Row 1: in every ch a sc  start in de 3 the ch of the hook

Row 2-8  30 sc

Row  9 BS 1 Inc

Row 10-12  32 sv

Row 13  BS 1 inc

Row 14-16  34 sc

Row 17  BS 1 inc

Row 18-20  36 sc

Row 21  BS 1 Inc

Row 22-24  38 sc

Row 25 BS  1 Inc

Row 26-28  40 sv

Row  29 BS 1 Inc. = 42

Row 30-60  42 sc

Row 61 Bs  4 Dec.= 34 v

Row 62-65  34 sc

Row 66  BS 1 Dec.

Row 67-68  32 sc

Row 69  BS 1 Dec.

Row 70  30 sc

Row 71  BS 1 Dec.

Row 72  28 sc

Row 73  BS 1 Dec.

Row 74  26 sc

Row 75  BD 1 Dec

Row 76  24 sc

Row 77  BD 1 Dec

Row 78  22 sc

Row 79  BS 1 dec

Row 80  20 sv

Row 81  BS 1 Dec

Row 82  18 sc

Row 83  BS 1 Dec

Row 84  BS 1 Dec

Row 85  BD 1 Dec

Row 86  12 sc

You sleeve looks like this

Assembly both sleeves.

Now we start with the edge

Row 1 RS 28 times ( sc,ch)  

Row  Dec 6 times (sc,ch) till you have 22 times (sc,ch)

Row 3-7  22 times (sc,ch)

Assembly the sleeve in the armhole . I made small stitches with transparent sewing yarn and sewing needle.