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How to Crochet a Neckline

by on Jun 23, 2008

For your next t-shirt reconstruction, shake things up a bit with a 70s-inspired crocheted neckline!  Take a trip with Threadbanger to visit Cal of Hodge Podge and learn how to do this unique craft! For more details, watch the video, and for more DIY style, subscribe to Threadheads on iTunes

 

 

Materials:
Old t-shirt
Tiny steel crochet hook (usually for lace/doilies)
Size E crochet hook
Scissors
Needle with a large eye

A person is holding up a brown blouse in front of her.

In order to do this project, you need to know the basics of crocheting! Wanna learn? Check the How to Crochet blog or video 🙂

**If
you run out of string, take a new strand and layer the beginning part
on top of your ending string. You will crochet with this double string
for a little bit, until the old piece completely ends. **

1. Cut a big scoop neck into the shirt. The piece you cut out of the neck you will use to cut into scraps.

2. Take an oval shape, and cut skinny strips (about 1/4 inch) in a sprial around the oval until you reach the center. 

A person is using scissors on an orange material.

3. Wind your strip into a ball, stretching it as you do so.

A woman working at crocheting.

4. Make a slip knot in your strip and put the loop on your tiny steel crochet hook. 

A woman in a gray shirt is holding a knitting needle in one hand with thin yarn of heavy string wrapped around the needle and pinched between two fingers to hold it in place.

5. Take the hook and poke it about a 1/4 inch into the neckline edge of the t-shirt. 

STITCHING A CLOTHES

6. Make a single crochet stitch.

7. Do 6 chain stitches, then move an inch over and poke into the shirt again. 

" A woman  crochet a  neckline of a dress "

8.
Repeat the crochet pattern of a single stitch, 6 chains, and poke a
hole until you’ve gone all the way around the neckline.

9. Insert the hook into your very first single crochet.

A red cloth being sewed by hand with needles.

10. Do a slip stitch so that you connect your new row to
the old row. Do a couple more slip stitches so that you are positioned
at the top of the first loop. Now you can begin working into each loop
to begin a new pattern. 

A person is knitting orange material.

11. Switch to your bigger crochet hook. Do a single crochet into the first loop.

A person crocheting with some red yarn.

12. Do 6 chain stitches. Then do a single crochet in the next loop. Repeat until you are at the beginning again.

A person crochets a neckline.

 

A person crocheting red fabric.

13.
Put your hook into the first single crochet stitch, and do a slip
stitch to connect. Then do a few more slip stitches so that you’re at
the top of the loop again.

A hand doing some knitting of a brown cloth

14. The next round, repeat but do 5 chains for each loop so that the neckline will start getting smaller and pull together.

15. When the third row is done, join with a slip stitch into the first single crochet stitch.

16.
To finish off: Cut the string a couple inches away, do one last chain
stitch, and pull the tail all the way through. Pull it tight. Take a
needle and weave the end in. Then you’re finished!

A woman holding an errant cord on a red shirt.
A woman holding up a red shirt.

 

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  1. Awesome, I’m going to try this – thank you for sharing.  Did you use a regular t-shirt?  Looks like the grey one you are wearing is sort of ‘sweater-ish’?  Do you have more pictures of how your shirts turned out?  thanks!!