In the past three months I have completed several types of projects. Among them are also 4 garments, ie two sweaters and two cardigans. They have been created with Susie Myer’s Contiguous method. I have written about my impressions of this method before, when I created the first two garments. I generally like it’s concept,…
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Another project that was created after a pattern from the Interweave Crochet 2015 magazine, is the crochet lace tunic. This tunic was inspired by the Blithe Dress/Tank pattern in the magazine. It was a custom order, so I had to change many important details: the length, the shape, the yoke and the armhole openings. The…
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There are times that you unexpectedly discover a new yarn, fall in love with it’s colors and fiber content and then… learn that the company that produces it has gone out of business. This happened last June, when upon visiting one of our town’s local yarn stores I stumbled upon Lanas Stop Algodon Soft. There…
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Another type of project I worked on during the past summer, was summer cotton tops. The idea was to create simple lacy tops, that would work well for hot weather. The construction was really easy: seamless, in the round, and except one example, bottom-up. For each project I used a different lace pattern – each…
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This past summer, something of an explosion in interest in crochet swimwear occurred in my city. It is highly possible that this happened also elsewhere in the country, but I was generally surprised by the sudden demand. Crochet swimwear has been fashionable in recent years, but I really did not expect this trend to reach…
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As I have mentioned before, my mother made a few requests this year. The first one was mittens, the second one was a sweater. She wanted a very long and roomy sweater that she could pair up with a variety of clothes. After the fair isle mittens, she was somewhat thinking of a fair…
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