Already planning your summer wardrobe, then add Granny no 5 to your crochet plans. This is a circular yoke top that works up deceptively quick.
Inspiration & Design
In the Lazy Polka dot pattern I mentioned how I can’t seem to leave my patterns alone. There is always something I want to explore, changing the yarn, the hooks size, picking up sts differently, this Granny No 5 top is no exception.
December of 2024 I was designing a Christmas tree granny skirt, and while I was putting it together I thought “this could work as a neckline.” So I of course had to order yarn to test my theory.
The Yarn for granny no 5
While I hadn’t swatched for stitches or really any component of the garment, I knew I wanted to have a neutral colored top with pops of color. I spent days browsing crochet.com looking for the perfect color combinations. This neutral is too pink, these pops of color are great but there are not neutrals” On and on it went until I finally found Salvage. Appropriately named.
Salvage is a newish yarn that combines 95% Cotton (62-75% Recycled), with 5% Other Fiber. While this isn’t a very soft cotton, it does wash very well, and have wonderful drape. Even though this yarn is listed as a Sport weight, with 155yds in 50 g, it’s definitely on the lighter weight of the Spectrum.
Although the salvage range doesn’t provide a wide variety of color choices, I do feel that they all play really well together. Granted, I have favorites.
Out of the 15 colors I chose 5. Less is more is our neutral off white color with some grey undertones. Our contrasting colors are thrift flip – a lemony celery green, followed by Library Card – floral pink color with a blue undertone. Lastly, to match the blue undertones of Library Card, Rain Barrel. I’m so tickled pink with this color selection?
Also, the best thing about the yarn choices, you only use 1 ball of each of the contrasting colors for all sizes. How amazing is that?!
Can I make this?
Granny No 5 top is crocheted top down using the circular yoke technique. After we complete our yoke we work the body and sleeves separately before circling back and completing the neckline.
Intermediate crochet pattern
- Join as you go
- Increasing
- Decreasing
- Combining different stitches
- Splitting for the sleeves
granny no 5 Description
Say hello to endless summer picnics with Granny No 5. Granny Squares and triangles form up the neckline for our top. Make the neckline your statement piece, go all out or add a pop of color here and there.
Granny No 5 Top
Skill Level
Materials
Yarn : Salvage from Wecrochet 95% cotton (62 – 75% of it
recycled), 5% other fiber/ 155yds in 50 grams/ Sportweight
- MC – Less is more
| Size | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| grams | 210 | 250 | 280 | 320 | 370 | 420 | 450 | 500 |
| yards | 651 | 775 | 868 | 992 | 1147 | 1302 | 1395 | 1550 |
| balls | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 10 |
- 1 ball for all sizes of
- Color 1 – Thrift flip – 30g left
- Color 2 – Library Card – 34 g left
- Color 3 – Rain Barrel – 30g left
Hooks – I used clover amour
- 3mm for motifs and the body
- 3.25 mm for yoke, start of the body and sleeves
Gauge
Gauge: Blocked
| Sts | Rnds | |
| 3.25mm | 7 | 9 |
| 3.00mm | 8 | 10 |
For gauge swatch – With a 3.25mm crochet hook work 51 ch’s and join in the rnd.
Rnd1: stacked sc in the first ch, 2dc, ch1, sk2, *granny st, ch1, sk2; rep from * until you have 5 ch’s left, granny st, sk2, sc to the first st to join.
Rnd 2: Dc in the sc space, *V st in each ch1 space until you reach the lone dc from the beg of the rnd, work dc in this space, sc to the first st to join the rnd.
Rnd 3: Rnd 3: Stacked sc in the sc space, ch1, [ granny st, ch1 ] in each ch1 space of the V st until you reach the lone dc from the beg of the rnd, work 2dc in this space to complete our granny st, sl st to the first st to close the rnd.
Rnd 4: Sl st to the first ch1 space, stacked sc in this space, V st in each ch 1 space until you reach the lone dc from the beg of the rnd, work dc in this space, close the rnd with a sc to the first dc.
Rnd 5: Stacked sc and 2 dc in the sc space, ch1, [granny st, ch1] until you have 1 ch space remaining, granny st in the last space, sc to the first st to join the rnd.
Repeat ends 2 – 5 until your work measures at least 6” in height.
Finished Size
| Size | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| Bust | 30 | 36 | 40 | 45.75 | 51 | 58.25 | 61.75 | 65.75 |
| Yoke depth | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10.75 |
| Neckline (flat) | 10.5 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| Armhole around | 11 | 11.5 | 12.75 | 12.75 | 13 | 14.25 | 15 | 15 |
| length | 19.5 | 19.5 | 19.5 | 19.5 | 20.5 | 20.5 | 20.5 | 21.75 |
For a size 1.5 (34.75 bust) use the instructions for size 1 but with a 3.5 mm hook for the yoke and the 4 rounds after splitting for the sleeves, try it on. Then after completing the yoke and 4 rounds of the body, switch to a 3.25 mm hook if you wish to tuck in the fabric.
Abbreviations US terms
- Ch – chain
- Sl st – slip stitch
- Sc – single crochet
- Hdc – half double crochet
- Dc – Double Crochet
- Trb – Treble crochet
- Inc – Increase
- Rep – repeat
- Rnd – round
- Mc: main color
- CC – change color
Special Sts
- Stacked sc – an alternative to a ch3, counts as a dc. Make a sc, insert your hook into the left leg of the sc just completed, YO and pull up a loop, complete sc.
- V stitch – Dc, ch1, Dc in the same ch1 space.
- V stitch inc – dc, ch1, dc, ch1, dc (3 dc separated by ch1’s)
- Beg Granny – stacked sc, 2dc in the same space
- Granny st – 3 dc in the same ch or stitch
- Granny corner – granny st, ch2, granny st
- Granny decrease – dc in the ch1 space, dc dec (this should happen over the current ch space and the next) dc in the ch space.
- Popcorn stitch – Make 4 dc, pull up the last loop and remove hook from loop, and insert hook from front to back through the top of the first dc made, pick up the dropped loop and pass through the first dc, this completes the stitch.
- Treble cluster – *YO twice, insert hook into the st or space, YO pull up a loop, YO pass through two loops, YO pass through two loops; rep from * twice more, there should be 4 loops on the hook, Yo pass through all loops.
- Double crochet cluster – *YO, insert hook into the st or space, YO pull up a loop, YO pass through two loops; rep from * twice more, there should be 4 loops on the hook, Yo pass through all loops.
Notes
- Yarn amounts listed take into account the 8” length after splitting for the sleeves. Any added length will require more yarn.
- Use whatever hook size you need to match or get as close as possible to the gauge.
- Please look at the Yardage specification for the yarn if considering substitutions.
- Removing or adding the square and triangle motifs will result in a wider or narrower neckline.
Tune in next week to begin working on our neckline.
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