Sweet Nothings Crochet: KURTA OR KURTI YOKE

KURTA OR KURTI YOKE

After all the tops, vests and girl clothing, I thought of doing something a little different. Here’s a yoke that can be affixed to the top of a dress or vest etc.. Loved how multi-faceted this pattern is .. and there’s a chart available … so yaay.

So for us in India, this would make a swell addition to the neckline of a kurta or kurti.. and this particular pattern would work for both a totally Indian as well as Western outfit.

As I work on this pattern, I’ve written down my notes that I share with you http://tierraindiartesanal.blogspot.in/.

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Difficulty level : Advanced crochet skills.

This is an easy pattern stitch-wise, but there are a complicated set of stitch combinations

Materials used : Today I’ve used our lovely Indian Red Rose knitting cotton yarn, with a 2.5 mm crochet hook

Abbreviations used : (Using U.S. terminology)

fsc : Foundation single crochet

dc : Double crochet

ch : chain ch-sp : chain space

sp : space rep : Repeat

Stitches used :

Starting slip knot : Here’s how you start with a slip knot. https://youtu.be/lJcqsVcs8cw

Starting slip knot 1 or the Sloppy Slip knot : This is a neat new way to start your work without a slip knot. https://youtu.be/YfC7KmGpifs

What is a slip stitch : Here is a neat video tutorial at https://youtu.be/weB3QNbA8Iw

What is a chain stitch ? Here is an easy video tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXx5ukBjKkY

Foundation Single Crochet : fsc : To refresh your skill on the fsc, please view this video https://youtu.be/mcT85fwh4mA

Double Crochet : dc : yo, insert hk into st ; yo (3 lps on hk);

[yo, draw through 2 lps] twice. One dc made.

Check out the video at https://youtu.be/xdnjB27zpYo

Chainless start for Double Crochet : I dislike the ch-2 / ch – 3 start, and this is what I do to start my row of dc.

Check out the video at https://youtu.be/wskv3iTjRx0

Instructions (using U.S. terminology)

Please note that I start all my rows with a ch 1, turning chain for ease.

Please check the top of this blog for easy video tutorials on all stitches used in today's pattern.

Please read through all my notes before you pick up your hook, so you know just where we're heading in our pattern.

Quick analysis of what we’re going to do here today.

The pattern repeat is 18.

The original pattern starts with a ch row and then dc, but I’m going to start with fsc as per my usual choice.

We will work back and forth in rows.

There are a lot of brackets / parenthesis used to define different elements of the pattern. So if working with the pc, I'd suggest that you mark them in different colours for convenience..

Well, that's what I do ..

Right.. so let’s get started.

Start with fsc in multiples of 18.

(I started with 90 fsc.)

Mark the centre of this fsc row.

Now there’s a little calculation you need to do here – this pattern has two 3 petal creations on each side , with a five petalled flower in the centre. So depending on how ‘deep’ you want the neckline, and / or how many 3 petal creations you want each end, you will need to work the multiples and start row stitches.

Row 1 : dc in the 1^st fsc ;

*ch 2, sk next 2 fsc , dc in the next fsc* ;

rep *to* till marker ;

ch 5, dc in the same marked stitch ;

rep *to* till end. Turn.

The following row is a little tricky – so let me explain what we’re doing here.

In this row, we will create the lovely three petalled and five petalled creations.

Now for each little petal we will work a line of 9 ch and then double back or turn and work a few stitches on this chain we’ve just created.

As we want all the three (or five) petals to emerge from the same point, we need to remember this when reading the instructions below.

So we'll have our three petalled creations around the sides of the yoke, and the centre five petals will emerge from the centre ch-5 sp.

So here's the two three petals along the sides and then the centre five petalled creation

Right then, lets carry on folks..

Row 2 : sc in the 1^st dc ;

*(2 sc in the next ch- 2 sp ; sc in the next dc) ;

rep (to) once ;

2 sc in the next ch-2 sp ;

[ch 9, turn and working on this ch-9 ;

sk 1^st 3 ch, sc in the next ch ; hdc in the next ch ;

dc in the next 3 ch, and hdc in the last ch] ;

sc in the next dc ;

{rep [to] once ; sc in the same dc} ;

rep {to} once ;

rep (to) 4 times* ;

rep *to* once till the ch-5 sp ;

rep [to] 5 times in same ch-5 sp ;

rep *to* till end. Turn.

And phew! You’ve done the most difficult part of this pattern.. so now its easy peasy through to the end.

In the following row, we will be using the ch-3 sps that are the ‘top’ of the ch-9 sps of the previous row, to ‘hold’ our petals in place.

Row 3 : sc in the 1^st sc ;

*(ch 5 , sc in the next ch-3 petal sp ;

ch 7, sc in the next ch-3 petal sp ;

ch 5, sc in the next ch-3 petal sp ;

ch 5, sk 2 dc and sc in the next dc ) ;

rep (to) once* ;

[ch 5, sc in the next ch-3 petal sp] ;

rep [to] once ;

{ch 7, sc in the next ch-3 petal sp} ;

rep {to} once ;

rep [to] once ;

ch 5, sk 2 dc and sc in the next dc ;

rep *to* till end. Turn

In the following row we’ll be using a dc-2 tog.

Double crochet 2-tog : dc 2-tog : [yo, insert hk in st or ch-sp, yo and pull up a lp ; yo and draw through 2 lps] 2 times (3 lps on hk) ;

{yo, draw through 2 lps on hk} 2 times. One dc 2-tog made.

This video tutorial at https://youtu.be/1_oPlUfN5eg shows you how to use the dc 2-tog to decrease.

Sometimes we work the dc 2-tog in the same stitch, to use as a decorative stitch.

Visit this video tutorial at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCQOBc83Vxo

Now for this stitch, we will have the first half of the stitch on one ch-5 sp, and the second half of the same dc 2-tog over the next ch-5 sp.

As it will be really difficult to write all this down in the instruction below, do note that this is what is meant by the dc 2-tog that follows.

The other thing to remember is that after we complete our dc 2-tog, we are in the next ch-5 sp, so we will work that next set of sts in this 2^nd ch-5 sp.

Please follow the chart as well.

Row 4 : dc in the 1^st sc ;

[ch 1 , dc] 2 times in the next ch-5 sp ;

*rep [to] 4 times in the next ch- 5 sp ;

ch 1, dc in the next sc (in the centre petal) ;

ch 3, dc in the same sc ;

rep [to] 4 times in the next ch-5 sp ;

rep [to] once in the next ch-5 sp ;

ch 1, dc 2-tog over the next two ch-5 sps ;

rep [to] once in the next ch-5 sp* ;

rep *to* once ;

{rep [to] 5 times in the next ch- 5 sp ;

ch 1, dc in the next sc (in the 2^nd petal of the 5 petals in the centre of work) ; ch 3, dc in the same sc ;

rep [to] 5 times in the next ch-7 sp ;

ch 1, dc in the next sc (in the 4^th petal of the centre 5 petals) ;

ch 3, dc in the same sc ;

rep [to] times in the next ch- 5 sp ;

rep [to] once in the next ch-5 sp ;

ch 1, dc 2-tog over the next two ch-5 sps ;

rep [to] once in the next ch-5 sp } ;

rep *to* till end.

Row 5 : dc in the 1^st dc ;

[ch 1 , dc in the next dc] ;

rep [to] 7 times ;

ch 1 , dc in the next ch-3 sp ;

ch 3, dc in the same ch-3 sp ;

rep [to] 5 times ;

*ch 7, sk next 2 dc and dc 2-tog, rep [to] 6 times ;

ch 1 , dc in the next ch-3 sp ;

ch 3, dc in the same ch-3 sp ;

rep [to] 5 times ;

ch 1 , dc in the next ch-3 sp ;

ch 3, dc in the same ch-3 sp ;

rep [to] 5 times*;

rep *to* till end.

In the last rep, you do [to] all the way to the last dc.

To get the lovely “V” –shape of this yoke, we need to increase the spacing in the centre 5-petalled flower, and so the instructions are a little different just for that section, from this row on.

If you want a more circular finish (as against a “V”, then you just do the *to* till end and that’s what you’ll get.

How do I know that ?? Well, I made that ‘mistake’, didn’t I ? )

Row 6 : dc 2-tog over the 1^st 2 dc ;

[ch 1 , dc in the next dc] ;

rep [to] 7 times ;

ch 1 , dc in the next ch-3 sp ;

ch 3, dc in the same ch-3 sp ;

rep [to] 3 times ;

*ch 2, sk next 2 dc, sc in the next ch-5 sp ;

ch 5, sc in the same ch-5 sp ;

ch 2, sk next 2 dc, dc in the next dc ;

rep [to] 3 times ;

ch 1 , dc in the next ch-3 sp ; ch 3, dc in the same ch-3 sp ;

rep [to] 3 times* ;

rep *to* once ;

{ch 5, sk next dc, sc in the next ch-5 sp ;

ch 5, sc in the same ch-5 sp ; ch 5, sk next dc, dc in the next dc} ;

rep [to] 5 times ;

ch 3, dc in the same dc ;

rep [to] 4 times ;

rep *to* till end.

In the last rep, you do [to] all the way to the last 2 dc ;

dc 2-tog in the last 2 dc.

Row 7 : Rep Row 6

In this final row we’ll use an unusual picot – In the ch-sps of our last row, we will do a triple (or three) sets of picots. The picot is the regular (ch 3, sl-st in the 1^st ch), but instead of doing one picot and then sc or dc into the st, we will do Picot 1, followed by Picot 2 and then Picot 3 all in the same ch-sp and then dc in the next dc.

So for instructions below, Picot denotes the combination of three picots done together.

How to work a picot stitch : Traditionally for a ch-3 picot, you work (ch 3, sl-st in 3^rd ch from hook). For a ch-5 picot, you will do (ch 5, sl-st in 5^th ch from hook).

Here’s a great video https://youtu.be/8s3zVaBcn4s

Row 8 : dc 2-tog over the 1^st 2 dc ;

[ch 1 , dc in the next dc] ;

rep [to] 7 times ;

ch 1 , dc in the next ch-3 sp ;

Picot and dc in the same ch-3 sp ;

rep [to] 2 times ;

*ch 3, sk next 2 dc, Picot in the next ch-5 sp ;

ch 3, sk next 2 dc, dc in the next dc ;

rep [to] once ;

ch 1 , dc in the next ch-3 sp , Picot and dc in the same ch-3 sp ;

rep [to] 2 times* ;

rep *to* once ;

{ch 5, sk next 2 dc, Picot in the next ch-5 sp ;

ch 3, Picot in the next ch-5 sp ;

ch 5, sk next 2 dc, dc in the next 2 dc} ;

ch 1 , dc in the next ch-3 sp ; Picot and dc in the same ch-3 sp ;

rep [to] 2 times ;

rep *to* till end.

In the last rep, you do [to] all the way to the last 2 dc ;

dc 2-tog in the last 2 dc.

Right then.. as usual, once done, fasten off.. weave in all ends…

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