#crochet garment

I improvised myself a mock-neck pullover vest.  It’s inspired by this pattern by Melissa Fisher [link], but I went my own way with it.  

Yarn: Lion Brand Wool Ease Thick & Quick (Claret)

I don’t like giving bad reviews but I really have to mention: the pattern PDF is so poorly formatted that I regret paying money for it.  The text is a light colour and the font, while often large, has thin lines, which makes it hard to read and easy to get lost either digitally or printed.  Whitespace is poorly used: there are wide margins and a page break in a very inconvenient place.  

Having purchased the pattern, I found myself very dissatisfied.   

The pattern itself is OK, but I feel that for such an expensive paid pattern, it ought to be more specific with measurements and counts.  It also switches from continuous rounds, to back-and-forth rows, and back again.  It’s not a very complex pattern: when I looked at the garment and tried to guess how it was made, I was right on most counts, and disappointed in the design choices where I wasn’t.  

Working in a continuous spiral gives the fabric a tendency to lean to one side. It also makes the switch from rounds to rows, and back, more obvious.  The pattern has no shoulders and is front-back symmetric, which means the garment sits a awkwardly on anyone who isn’t very thin.  

I worked the pattern as-written first, hoping it might turn out ok when finished.  But I ended up frogging it all back and going my own way.  

For my vest, I worked in joined rounds, changing directions after each round.  I tapered the waist for a more flattering fit.  I narrowed the neck and lowered the collar on the front so it would fit my body better.  Though next time, I would make the garment just a few stitches wider and several rows taller: the yarn shrank when washed and now it’s a bit more snug than I’d like.  

There it is: the first pullover-type sweater I’ve ever crocheted!  

This sweater is for my dear friend Simon.  I started it about a year ago (March 2019) and completed it April 2020.  

Simon affectionately gets a lot of my “lumpy firsts”.  The little bulge in the side there is when I was accidentally increasing because I misplaced my slip stitch at the end of each row--which is a common beginner mistake.  I asked him if he was ok with this flaw, and he said it makes the sweater One Of A Kind.  Aww.  

Yarn: Estelle Yarns Double Knit, “65583 Q” (a mossy green)

WIP Crochet 17 Mar 2019: Campfire Cardigan, free pattern by Make & Do Crew [part 1] [part 2] [part 3] [purchase printable pattern] 

This is kind of an ingenious use of the granny square stitch to make a hyperbolic hexagon.  I love the idea.  And it works up quickly!  

working on crocheting the lotus duster from moralefiber.blog and ouuuuugh it's turning out so nice already! ive only been working on this since Friday afternoon & i had to frog out 2 rounds to adjust the sleeve sizes. (because I was a dummy and didn't make gauge, not because the pattern was poorly written) this pattern is really easy to modify for fit & includes instructions for that so it's v nice

using carron cloud cakes perfect phasing in the rhubarb colorway, switched from working the inside of the cake to the outside of the cake after rnd 15, not only to make the scallop stitches stand out but also to make sure that the gradient will line up perfectly when i have to attach the next cake.