How to Crochet a Cover Up
Crochet is particularly well suited to making a beach cover up, which need not be fitted. A boxy modified poncho style is easy to adapt to a size that's comfortable. A cover up also suggests good ways to use open, lacy stitches where you'd like to be cool, as well as denser, more protective stitches where you need to block the sun's rays.
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Things You'll Need
- 1,750 yards size 3 crochet cotton or baby-weight yarn
- Size F (3.75 mm) crochet hook
Instructions
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Select a lacy pattern stitch for the body of the coverup, such as one in the Resources, or choose a filet crochet chart that will work up at least 30 inches square.
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Make a foundation chain for the body of the coverup at least 270 stitches long. Adjust upward to reach the right multiple to fit your chosen stitch pattern, and add the number of chain stitches needed to begin the first row. For a filet pattern, chain 273.
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Work the lace pattern to a 30-inch square and fasten off the yarn. Make a second square for the other side of the body.
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Attach the yarn at a point 10 inches in from either top corner of one of the squares. Chain 81 stitches and slip stitch to the same point on the other square. Chain three and slip stitch again to the edge of the square that leads toward the corner. Turn the work so you can work back across the chain.
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Wrap the yarn once around the hook and insert the hook into the next stitch in the chain connecting the two squares. Draw up a loop so you have three loops on the hook. Catch the yarn and draw a loop through two of the loops, then again through the remaining two loops. This completes a double crochet.
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Skip one chain and work three double crochets in the next chain. Skip two chains and work another three double crochets in the third. Continue across to the other end of the chain, skipping two chains between clusters of three double crochets. Make two double crochets in the last chain before the other square. Slip stitch to the edge of the square, chain 3, slip stitch to the edge of the square, and turn.
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Make three double crochets in the space between each two clusters of the first row, ending with one double crochet to slip stitch to the other square. Continue in this pattern stitch to fill the space between the front and back of the cover up.
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Continue in the same pattern, turning on three chain stitches, for 10 inches or your desired sleeve length beyond the corners of the front and back panels. Finish off. Repeat Steps 4 through 8 on the other side of the panels.
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Hold two strands of yarn together and make a chain 24 inches long. Make five more of these chains. Draw a chain through both corners at the end of each sleeve and another through at about the ends of the front and back panels. Tie them to form sleeves. Use the last two chains to tie the sides of the panels together at the waistline.
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