GINGER Crochet Jacket – Pattern & Tutorial

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If you follow me on social media (@creativaatelier), you are probably already very familiar with the Ginger Crochet Jacket.

This crocheted baby jacket, together with the Pickles Knitted Romper, forms a part of a lovely collaboration with MEZ Fabra, an international company that includes yarn brands as well known as Anchor, Rowan, Schachenmayr, or Red Heart.

The GINGER Crochet Jacket pattern is available in size 1-3 months, 3-6 months, 6-9 months, 1 year, 2 years, 3 years and 4 years. As usual, you will find the instructions to crochet this baby jacket in size 1-3 months on the text and images, but if you prefer to download the pattern to get row by row instructions and print it to make notes without relying on the cell phone or internet connection, everything is ready for you! You can find all the downloadable and printable patterns by clicking on the button below.

If you decide to crochet the Ginger Jacket in one of the larger sizes (from 1 year to 4 years), keep in mind that the pattern for the stripes is slightly different, since instead of having 4 color stripes, it shows 6 stripes.

Materials

The cotton I have used to crochet this baby jacket is Anchor Baby Pure Cotton. If you cant find it in your local store and you need to find an alternative yarn, keep in mind that your tension sample of 23 stitches x 26 rows (single crochet) should measure 10×10 cm.

• 2 skeins of Anchor Baby Pure Cotton color 105 off-white
• 1 skein of Anchor Baby Pure Cotton color 402 Mint
• 1 skein of Anchor Baby Pure Cotton color 432 Pale Pink
• 1 skein of Anchor Baby Pure Cotton color 179 Mustard
• 1 skein of Anchor Baby Pure Cotton color 421 Blue

You will also need:

• 3mm crochet hook
• Tapestry needle

Stitches and techniques

• Chain Stitch
• Single Crochet
• Single crochet working through Back Loops only
• Decreases
• Slip Stitch
• Slip Stitch working through Back Loops only

1. Crochet the yoke of the jacket

Chain 57 stitches. Turn your work and crochet 56 slip stitches.

Crochet 4 rows in slip stitch working only with the back loops.

From the 6th row, we’ll start to work the increases to give shape to the yoke of the crochet baby jacket.

Row 6. ch 1, *1 scTBL, incTBL* rep. from *a* to end of row, 2 scTBL

Row 7. ch 1, sc to end of row

Row 8. Change color to Blue. ch 1, 83 ss. 

Rows 9-13. ch 1, ssTBL to end of row. Cut your yarn leaving a long tail

Row 14. Change color to white. ch 1, *2 scTBL, incTBL* rep. from *a* to end of row, 2 scTBL

Row 15. ch 1, sc to end of row

Remember that if it’s easier for you to follow the row by row instructions, in order to know exactly in which rows you need to change color or increase without having to do the count yourself, you can get the pattern for the Ginger Jacket in the tutorial size (1-3 months) for just 2.99 € or in any of the other available sizes for 3.99 €.

2. Divide the stitches for the front pieces, the sleeves, and the back.

Once all of the yoke area has been crocheted, it’s time to divide your work into front pieces, sleeves, and back.

To do this, from one end, count 27 stitches and place a marker on the last stitch to make one front piece, count 40 stitches and place a marker on the last stitch to make a sleeve, count 57 stitches and place a marker on the last stitch to make the back, and count 40 stitches and place a marker on the last stitch to make the other sleeve. You should have 27 stitches left, which will form the other front piece.

Now that we have our work divided, we’re going to crochet the front pieces and back together to form the whole body of the crochet baby jacket.

To do this, crochet 27 scTBL until the first marker, skip 40 stitches of one sleeve, crochet 57 scTBL of the back until the third marker, skip 40 stitches of the other sleeve and crochet the 27 final stitches.

3. Crochet the body of the crocheted baby jacket

Keep crocheting all the stitches of the body of the jacket until you have completed the motif 6 more times. 

Remember that the motif is made up of these rows:

*Row 1. ch 1, scTBL to end of row

Row 2. ch 1, sc to end of row 

Row 3. ch 1, ss to end of row 

Rows 4-8. ch 1, ssTBL to end of row *

Polish the ends of the front pieces of the crochet cardigan

Single Crochet the stitches from one edge of the front opening and crochet 3 rows all with ssTBL. Weave in loose ends. Repeat the same process on the other side of the opening.

4. Crochet the sleeves of the crochet baby cardigan

Resume the 40 stitches for the sleeves and crochet making the motif until you have completed the stripes 7 times or until the sleeve measures about 16 cm.

Cut your yarn leaving it long enough to be able to sew under the sleeves with.

4. Crochet the button loops

With the threads of the different colors that you cut long when crocheting the yoke, chain 10 stitches and sew onto the base of it. You will have made a button loop.

Repeat the same thing with the other three color threads until you have your 4 button loops.

As I always say, this is one of the combinations and possibilities that this pattern offers. On this occasion, I have used a base color that is off-white and 4 brighter colors, but you can try crocheting it using only two colors, crochet it all with multicolor stripes or using a pattern of repeated stripes— you decide!

I would love to hear your opinion in the comments and, of course, if you found this tutorial useful or inspiring, share it with the world! And if you decide to crochet your own Ginger Crochet Jacket you can show off the result in networks using #GingerJacket and #CreativaAtelier.

¡Besos!