Crochet Pattern: Granny Square Haltered-Neck Top For Young Girl

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Crochet Pattern: Granny Square Haltered-Neck Top For Young Girl
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Weather is hot here and just like summer of many countries, this crochet granny square top comes really handy to accustom ourselves in the heat wave season. This is the second project I did for my daughter this month after the Ruffle Flower Headband and the second haltered-neck top after the knitted version. May be I will sew another one for her for the next,

If you haven’t got the pattern and tutorial on how to crochet this colorful granny squares, click here!!!! Now, let’s see how we are going to put all the pieces of granny squares together to make this haltered-neck top for a young girl.

This patching up method is using the last round of crochet to join, if you find it difficult to understand or troublesome to make, you can always crochet all the squares and half-squares then join them up by sewing them using tapestry needle.

If you want other sizes, change hook size and yarn accordingly to change the finishing size. Or, you can add a round or two to make the square bigger for adult size, it is all up to you provided you know how to modify the stitches and rows for the collar, armhole, end hem and back band.

Material
Yarn: DK, light worsted, 100% cotton or equivalent, knitting gauge = 24 sts x 34 row (4″ with size 3mm needle)
Color and amount:
White – 100g
Pink, Yellow, Blue, Green and Brown – 30g each
Crochet hook: 3.0mm [for granny square] & 2.5mm [for bands and hems]
Button: 1/2″
Elastic thread
Tapestry needle

Granny Square size:
Each square is 2.5″ x 2.5″ with 3.0mm hook.

Finishing Size:
Widest width 12″
Length 11″
Halter strips 9″
To fit chest (22 ½ in)
Suits age 4-6 girl

Abbreviations:
st = stitch
ch = chain
dc = double crochet
sc2tog = single crochet 2 together
BPsc = back post single crochet
sl st = slip stitch

Difficulty Level
Intermediate

This free pattern is designed and tested by Craft Passion and only meant for hobby/personal use, please don’t sell it. Convo me if you have question about the copyright.

Download the Granny Square arrangement here or by clicking the photo.
You need 15 pre-make squares, 13 patching / joining squares, and 2 half square (Triangle shape, scroll down to get the pattern) with various colors (refer to the document for color and quantity)…
The bottom left and right are supposed to join up, but for better illustration, I drew it into a flat open piece.

Organize the array of the pre-make squares by referring to the pattern，crochet the joining square one by one to patch them up.
To begin, crochet the first 2 rounds of granny square of the center joining piece as usual.
3rd round: ch3, dc 2, ch1.

Sl st [supposed the 2nd ch of the corner] to the 2nd ch of the 1st pre-make granny square’s corner cluster.

dc 3, sl st to all the ch of the pre-make granny square whenever there is a ch st, but dc as usual.
Work till to the next corner. End it with a dc 3 and sl st right after the dc cluster.

Join the second square. Begin with a sl st (supposed the 2nd ch for the corner) to the ch right before the dc cluster of the pre-make square, then dc 3. Repeat sl st and dc as the first square.
Again, end at the sl st on the first ch of the pre-make square’s corner.

Repeat the same for the 3rd and 4th square. To end the patch-up, sl st on the loops of the dc at the beginning of the 3rd round of this joining square, sl st on the 1st ch of the corner.

Fasten off and weave yarn end into stitches to hide. Repeat the patch work until the whole top completes as per pattern.

HALF SQUARE –
To make a half square granny square for shaping the armhole, begin with replacing the first ch of the corner cluster with 3 ch [bottom right corner of the photo], end the second ch of the corner cluster across the diagonal with a dc [bottom left corner of the photo].
Work on RS for all 3 rounds, i.e. begin on the right and end on the left.
Since the half square is a joining piece for this project, crochet the 3rd round while joining the 2 edges similar to the above.

BACK BAND –
[white] ch3, dc 80 stitches for 6 rows to make the back band. Slip stitch to the side of the front granny square at the begin and end stitch.

BOTTOM HEM –
[white] sc 134 stitches for 5 rounds to make the bottom hem. ch1 to begin, and sl st to the 1st ch of the row to end.

SHAPE COLLAR -
Row 1 [white]: ch1, sc 40 stitches for the top edge of the 3 granny squares. BPsc both the dc stitches at the joining corner of the granny square.
Row 2 -3 [white]: ch1, sc all st.
Row 4 [white]: ch1, sc2together, sc till last 2 stitches of the row, sc2tog for the last stitch. [38 st]
Row 5 – 7 [blue, white, yellow]: ch1, sc all st.
Row 8 [while]: repeat row 4. [36 st]
Row 9 – 11 [brown, while, green]: repeat row 5-7.
Row 12 [white]: repeat row 4. [34 st]
Row 13 – 15 [pink, white, white]: repeat row 5-7.
Row 16 [white]: repeat row 4. [32 st]
Row 17 [white]: ch1, sc all st.

SHAPE ARMHOLE – RIGHT
[pink] – Begin at the collar corner,ch58, turn.
Row 1 – 2: ch1, sc 58 on the chain stitch, sc another 35 at the armhole, slip stitch to the back band [row1], turn. [93]
Row 3 – ch1, sc3, ch3 (create button hole), sc till end, slip stitch to the back band, turn.
Row 4 – 5: ch1, sc till end, slip stitch to the back band [row5],turn.
fo.
SHAPE ARMHOLE – LEFT
[pink] – Begin at the collar corner.
Row 1 – 5: ch1, sc 35 at the armhole, slip stitch to the back band [row1,3 &5], turn. [35]
fo.
Weave in and hide all yarn ends.
Stitch the button on the left armhole about 1/2″ from the top edge.

INSTALLING ELASTIC THREAD TO BACK BAND –
The back bank measures about 12 inch before putting on the elastic thread.

Weave in the elastic thread in between each row of dc chain by using a tapestry needle.
Do it on all the 6 rows dc of the back band.

Adjust the elastic thread to make the back band measures at 8 in. fo

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