The Children’s Paris Sweater is a beautiful fair isle crochet heart sweater that’s full of love! Make this for your little one for Valentine’s Day or to wear year round!
What is Fair Isle Crochet?
Fair isle crochet is a technique used to do crochet colorwork. You can create so many designs and color changes with this technique! It is simple changing colors and “floating” your unused yarn behind the project until you need to use it again.
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Pattern Details
The Children’s Paris Sweater pattern comes with instructions for children’s sizes 2-10. It is worked from the top down, first in rows to create the chest and shoulders, and then in the round for the crochet heart motifs section and the sleeves.
The free pattern includes the written instructions, link to a full pattern video tutorial, a chart, and a few photos for visual aid.
The Yarn
The crochet heart sweater pattern calls for DK (#3) weight yarn. I used Lion Brand Coboo for the sample sweaters. You will need at least 2 colors for this project, but can use more if you prefer.
Lion Brand Coboo is made of 51% cotton, 49% rayon from bamboo. It is soft, durable, and very comfortable to wear.
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Children’s Paris Sweater
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Did you know there is an adult size sweater? Check out the Paris Sweater crochet pattern!
There is also a Paris Beanie crochet pattern!
Children’s Paris Sweater Crochet Pattern
Copyright © 2026 Michelle Ferguson – Two Brothers Blankets
All rights reserved. No part of this pattern may be reproduced, sold, or tampered with, in any form or by any means, without permission from the publisher.
Items produced from these patterns may be sold, but the patterns themselves may not be sold, shared, or altered in any way.
Yarn:
Lion Brand Coboo (#3)
51% Cotton, 49% Acrylic
100g/232yards
Hook:
H/8 (5.0mm) crochet hook
I/9 (5.5mm) crochet hook
Other Materials:
Stitch Marker
Gauge:
With smaller hook:
16sc x 16 rows = 4”
Pattern Difficulty:
Intermediate
Stitches Needed & Abbreviations:
ch- chain
sc- single crochet
sc2tog- single crochet 2 together
blo – back loop only
MC- main color
CC- contrasting color
RS- right side
st(s)- stiches(es)
* – repeat from
Sizing:
| Size | Chest Circumference | Finished Circumference | Finished Length | Yardage (Skeins MC/CC) |
| 2 | 21” | 23” | 15.5” | 554 (2/2) |
| 4 | 23” | 25.5” | 15.5” | 614 (2/2) |
| 6/8 | 26.5” | 28” | 19” | 674 (3/2) |
| 10 | 28” | 30.5” | 22” | 735 (3/2) |
Pattern Notes:
Pattern is in US terms.
Sweater is worked from the top down, with the shoulders and chest worked in rows first, and then join to create the armholes. Body section of the sweater is worked in a continuous rounder, and sleeves and trim will be crocheted at the end in a join as you go method.
You will work in a continuous round for the heart design section, using a stitch marker to mark the first stitch of each round.
If float is held behind 5 or more stitches, catch your float halfway through.
Watch your tension throughout. Don’t pull your floats too tight or work your stitches too tight.
Sweater is fitted with 0-2” of positive ease. I recommend sizing up for a looser fit.
Fair isle section of pattern is written as number of stitches to work with what color to use as follows: 2 (MC), 2 (CC).
Fair Isle Video Tutorial: https://youtu.be/7sJYa948S0U
Full pattern video tutorial: Coming Soon.
To follow chart, start with row 1 and work left to right and top to bottom. The first fair isle round in the size you are doing is row 1 of the chart.
To change colors, instead of finishing out the last stitch before you go to the next color, pull the next color through the 2 loops for the last step of your stitch. This will finish out your last stitch and start you off with the new color for your next stitch.
To catch your float when working 7 stitches or more in the same color, simply grab your non-working yarn when working a middle stitch and then drop it again until your next color change.
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