How to Crochet Collars
Across most of the history of fashion, right up to the general availability of automatic washing machines, collars and cuffs were made separate from dresses and shirts, so they could be washed more often. A lacy crocheted collar, most often in white or off-white, also added elegance and brightness to the somber colors of the underlying garments. It still does. Jazz up a plain jewel-neck or v-neck sweater with a crocheted collar to wear sometimes and sometimes leave in the drawer.
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Instructions
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Start with a chain that will fit around the neckline of your garment. Make a foundation chain as long as the neckline of your garment, plus enough chain stitches to make a loop to accommodate your button. Form the loop with a slip stitch. Chain 3.
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Work double crochets in the next two chains to make a filled block (three double crochet). Chain 2. Skip one chain and double crochet in the following chain to form an open mesh. Continue along the foundation chain with open meshes until two chains remain. Work two double crochet to make another filled block. Chain 3 and turn.
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Repeat Step 2 for 10 rows, working double crochets into the double crochets of the preceding row.
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Work a solid edge the length of the collar, working a double crochet in each mesh space as well as the double crochets.
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Tie off the thread and work the end into the edge of the collar. Use the tail of the thread from the start of the foundation chain to attach the button.
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Tips & Warnings
Explore vintage and modern filet-crochet patterns for small charted motifs such as twining vines, Greek keys, or isolated flower or insect designs to work into your collar.
To make a softer collar, use a finer thread and hook, and add a ruffle by working additional rows of solid double crochet, but work two stitches in each double crochet from the preceding row.
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