Quick and Easy Summer Crochet Top Pattern – Eyelet Lace Tee

I’m so excited to introduce a brand new, quick and easy summer crochet top pattern! The Eyelet Lace Tee is a lace crochet top pattern that is constructed from two matching rectangles that are simply seamed at the shoulders and sides. 

It features basic stitches and doesn’t have any shaping to worry about, so it’s a great beginner crochet garment for anyone to try! 

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This crochet top pattern was featured last year as a guest design on Joy of Motion Crochet and I’m delighted to be able to feature it here on HanJan Crochet now too.

Scroll down for the free Eyelet Lace Tee pattern, or purchase an ad-free, printable PDF version here: 

About the Eyelet Lace Tee

This free summer top crochet pattern is a wonderful, beginner-friendly project. It uses a simple pattern repeat to create the top and bottom eyelet lace detail and an equally simple repeat for the body. It really is a garment that anyone can achieve and most of all enjoy making! 

Made with two matching panels for the front and back which are seamed at the sides and shoulders it is completely customisable in every aspect to ensure it fits you perfectly.

The top has classic, clean lines that will suit anyone and you can adjust so many aspects of it to make it really unique and special for you. You can change the width, length, armhole depth, add sleeves, change the neckline, you can do whatever you like with this simple t shirt blueprint. (I’m planning on making a chunky wool one with sleeves for the Winter!)

Video Tutorial

I’ve put together a video tutorial to show you how just how easy the crochet top is and with tips for seaming too:

How to Crochet Garments: My Top Tips

If you’re new to crochet garments and worried about all the sizing, seaming, gauge and other things that might seem really daunting, please don’t worry. I used to feel exactly the same! If you can make a blanket, then you can make this garment. I promise!

I’ve written all about my experience with learning to both make and design garments and you can read about it here: Learn garment making with 12 free crochet summer top patterns.

I also had my lovely friend Fran (who is a really talented crochet garment pattern designer) write all about her experiences and best advise too: Crochet Garments – how to start your perfect crochet wardrobe.

My top tips for crocheting garments:

• Believe you can do it because you can!
• Choose the right pattern for you
• Choose the right yarn for the pattern
• Always work a gauge swatch
• Adjust it to fit you
• Always block your crochet garment

Yarn

To make the crochet Eyelet Lace Tee I used James C Brett – It’s 100% Pure Cotton DK which is 100% double knit cotton, 215m/100g in Cream (IC-01). It’s such a lovely light cotton with a fabulous ‘bounce’ to it that makes it great for summer garments and shawls. 

You will need 3 (4, 4, 4, 5) (5, 6, 7, 7) balls of yarn to make the top.

As a great alternative – one of my fabulous testers used Lion Brand: Coboo 3ply Cotton Yarn, which is 50% cotton, 50% bamboo, 212m/100g and looks so beautiful! It comes in some awesome colours and is super comfy to wear.

Tension and Sizing

The Eyelet Lace crochet top free pattern comes in sizes XS-5XL with instructions on how to adjust it to suit you. (I always try to add this as my Mum is much shorter than me and always complains that patterns are too long for her!)

The pattern is worked with a tension of 16sts and 8 rows of set pattern = 4in x 4in (10cm by 10cm).

The sizes are as follows:

Size – Bust (inches/cm), Length (inches/cm), Armhole depth (inches/cm)

XS – 30in/76cm – 22in/56cm – 9in/23cm

S – 34in/86cm – 22in/56cm – 9in/23cm

M – 38in/96cm – 22in/56cm – 9.5in/24cm

L – 42in/107cm – 24in/61cm – 9.5in/24cm

XL – 46in/117cm – 24in/61cm – 10in/25cm

2XL – 50in/127cm – 24in/61cm – 10in/25cm

3XL – 54in/137cm – 26in/66cm – 10in/25cm

4XL – 58in/147cm – 26in/66cm – 10.5in/26.5cm

5XL – 62in/157cm = 26in/66cm – 11in/28cm

Materials

Along with your yarn, you will need the following:

4mm (US 7/G) crochet hook – my favourites are Furls Streamline Swirl crochet hooks or Clover Amour crochet hooks.

Tapestry needle

Scissors

Stitch markers if desired

Pattern Options

Get this summer crochet top pattern free in this blog post – just scroll down! You can also purchase an ad-free, printable PDF with added extras in my pattern stores:

Don’t forget to join HanJan Crochet to receive regular discount codes (and more free patterns!) and Pin this Eyelet Lace Tee crochet pattern to your crochet Pinterest board! 

Glossary and Abbreviations (US Terminology)

• sc – single crochet
• tr – treble crochet
• ch(s) – chain(s)
• sp – space
• ss – slip stitch
• beg – beginning
• sk – skip
• st(s) – stitch(es)
• RS – right side
• WS – wrong side
• rep – repeat

Pattern Notes

• The summer crochet top is made from two matching panels for the front and back that are then seamed together for the shoulders and sides.
• A ch1 or ch3 at the beginning of a row does not count as a stitch.
• The top is worked from the top down.
• Turn your work at the end of each row.

Crochet Top Pattern

This free pattern is in standard US crochet terms.

Work matching panels for the front and the back of the top:

Foundation chain: ch 60 (69,78,84,93,102,108,117,126) 

Row 1: sc in 2nd chain from hook and each along [59, 68,77,83,92,101,107,116,125]

Row 2: RS: ch3 (does not count as stitch), tr in next 2, *ch1, skip 1, tr in next 2, rep from * to end.

Row 3: ch1 (does not count as stitch), sc in each across.

Rows 2 and 3 create the eyelet pattern.

Rows 4-13: Repeat the pattern five more times for all sizes.

Row 14: ch3 (does not count as stitch), tr in each across.

Row 15: ch1 (does not count as stitch), sc in each across.

Rows 14 and 15 create the middle pattern. Repeat the middle pattern 12 (12,12,13,13,13,14,14,14) more times.

At the end of the middle pattern repeats, continue to work the cuff section.

Row 1: ch3 (does not count as stitch), tr in next 2, *ch1, skip 1, tr in next 2, rep from * to end.

Row 2: ch1 (does not count as stitch), sc in each across.

Rows 1 and 2 create the cuff eyelet pattern.

Repeat the cuff eyelet pattern 2, (2,2,3,3,3,4,4,4) more times to complete the panel.

Joining the panels and creating the top:

To create the shoulder seams – with RS facing inwards (so that the seam is on the inside), join 12 (16,21,24,28,33,36,40,45) stitches at either side of the Foundation Chain to create the neck hole.

You can either use a slip stitch or sew to join, whichever you prefer.

To create the side seams – with RS facing inwards, starting from the bottom of the middle section (before the cuff section starts) upwards for 18 (18,19,19,20,20,20,21,22) rows. This creates the armholes.

Guest Designing – My First Experience

This pattern was my first as a guest blogger and it was so much fun! Like everything with HanJan recently, I just decided to go for it and the lovely Janne from Joy of Motion loved my design idea and said yes!

You might have seen guest blog posts on other sites too. It’s such a great way for us as designers to help and support each other, creating a wider community and introducing you to new designers too!

The great thing about it is that you really don’t have to be a hugely established designer to apply. Most of the people that feature guest designers and writers are doing it to support up and coming designers. If it’s something you think you’d like to do then I say go for it!

In the future (hopefully not too far away!) it’s something I’d really like to do here at HanJan so if you’re a designer already, or an aspiring one that would like to know more then please let me know!

Here are some of the great blogs that have open calls for guest designing:

• Joy of Motion
• E’Claire Makery
• The UnderGround Crafter
• The Crochetpreneur

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More Easy Crochet Top Patterns

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