This festival style crochet lace Crop top pattern creates a lightweight, breathable garment that is perfect for summer events, beach days, and layered boho outfits. Built from structured crochet cups and flowing lace sections, the design balances support with delicate texture.
Crochet Lace Crop Top
The adjustable straps and customizable cup sizing allow you to tailor the fit to your body, making this top both practical and expressive. With mesh, fan stitches, and a frilly lace edge, the finished piece feels detailed yet wearable, offering a handmade statement top that works just as well with high waisted shorts as it does over swimwear.
Materials
- 4 mm crochet hook
- Approximately 100 g yarn (two 50 g balls)
- Scissors
- Yarn needle
- Stitch markers
Creating the Cups Make 2
- Start with a slip knot and chain a length that measures half of your cup height vertically
- Add one extra chain for turning
- Single crochet in each stitch across the chain
- Identify the starting yarn tail side as the flat bottom edge of the cup
- At the top point of the cup work 3 single crochets into the same stitch to form the increase
- Continue single crochet down the opposite side
- Turn the work, chain 1, and single crochet back up
- Always place 3 single crochets into the center stitch of the previous increase
- Repeat rows until the cup reaches the desired size
- Work a decorative shell border along the curved edge
- Chain 2 and work 7 half double crochets into the second stitch from the hook
- Secure each shell with a single crochet into the next stitch
- Repeat shells evenly around the cup edge
Joining the Cups
- Keep the yarn attached to the second cup
- Chain the desired number of stitches for spacing
- Slip stitch into the top edge of the first cup to join both cups together
Lower Lace Section
- Attach yarn to the bottom edge of the joined cups
- Work a full row of single crochets across the entire lower edge
- Chain 3 and double crochet into every stitch across
- Chain 4, skip one stitch, and double crochet into the next stitch
- Chain 1, skip one stitch, and double crochet into the next stitch
- Repeat this mesh pattern across the row
- Chain 3 and work a full row of double crochets
- Chain 3 and double crochet into the first stitch
- Chain 1, skip one stitch, and work 2 double crochets into the next two stitches
- Repeat this pattern across the row
Loop Rows
- Chain 4 and single crochet into the third stitch from the hook
- Repeat to create evenly spaced loops across the row
- Chain 4 and single crochet into the center space of each loop from the previous row
Fan Design and Edging
- Mark the center loops of the work
- Work 7 double crochets into each marked loop to form a fan
- Between fans continue the chain 4 and single crochet loop pattern
- Work one double crochet into each fan stitch with a chain 1 between each stitch
- Along the final edge work 3 single crochets
- Create a chain 3 picot
- Work 3 more single crochets into each loop and space across the edge
Straps and Assembly
- Attach yarn to the top point of each cup
- Chain approximately 100 stitches or to your preferred strap length
- Secure and fasten off each strap
- Cross the straps at the back
- Lace the strap ends through the mesh or fan gaps at the lower corners for an adjustable fit
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