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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Brace yourselves because starting from this post, a lot of custom order related projects are coming. These are the projects that have kept me from much delayed design work, but provided me with the opportunity to work with new design concepts and ideas. First up, is a chevron lace top I made for a friend.…
Last Autumn (2015), after 1 and a half years of a seemingly unending studying period, I decided to come back to teaching knitting & crochet. I stopped in order to focus more energy and time on my Master thesis. After it was finished, along with the bulk of the studying that had to be done,…
Last October, a very good friend of mine was visiting Athens for a business trip. She is Serbian, so even though we live in the same geographical region (the Balkans), we don’t get the chance to meet more than once a year – and that’s often the best case scenario. So naturally, we scheduled to…
Around this time last year, I began working on a special kind of crochet project. One of my blog readers had stumbled upon my lace swimsuit top design and wanted to order a custom piece for herself. After exploring different options, we ended up deciding on a one piece crochet swimsuit inspired by fashion made…