"When are you going to make ME a sweater mom?"
Ruh-Roh Shaggy.
My youngest offspring has realized the crochet imbalance that exists in our household.
I tried to explain that crochet stitches, by nature, look girly and lacy. No 7-year-old boy wants to wear a girl sweater to school. right? What if I spent hours and hours on this thing and he was ridiculed on the playground?
"Nope! That won't happen", he calmly said. His friends were good friends, he assured me, and they would think it was neat that his mom made him a sweater.
Really? I doubted the authenticity of that. But if my boy wanted his Momma to make him a sweater, I was gonna go forth and crochet it. It was like I'd been double-dog dared.
My son selected a shade of blue, super-soft baby yarn, and tossed it into my basket.
Once I arrived at home, though, reality set in. Nearly every crochet sweater pattern out there is for a girl. Out of the hundreds and hundreds I studied, only four weren't ridiculously feminine. A bigger problem ensued when my son didn't like any of them. He wanted something simple, with vertical stripes. "And the edges should be orange!" he proudly declared.
Well, ok. The Raglan Boys Pullover was born this past weekend during a weekend marathon of watching the Transformers Trilogy. Good thing those movies are long.
I didn't really write this pattern down, but I did take cryptic notes. Attempt at your own risk. :-)
Boy's Raglan Pullover
I measured a raglan-style shirt from his closet to get the piece shapes and dimensions in the photo.
Next, I crocheted the pieces vertically, alternating each row with hdc blo and hdc flo, working increases and decreases as necessary to make the shape work.
On the slanted edges, I added 3 rows of sl st for a bit of style.
Whipstitch the seams together.
Work sc evenly around neck edge, sleeve edges, and bottom band.
With alternate color, work ribbing in hdc blo, connecting with 3 sl st at each pass. Neck and sleeve ribbing is 6 sc tall; bottom band is 12 sc tall.
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