Friday, May 10, 2013

Summer Top Off the Hook

FO Friday and I've my crochet vest/tank summer top that I was working on in this post to show you. I really enjoyed making this and it worked up super quickly. This was my first time using RICO cotton. It has a nice feel to it but a bit of a shine and i think it worked perfectly. As I mentioned in the previous post the pattern was from July/August 2012 issue of Crochet today! I'm sure they have an app with this back issue available to download if you fancy giving the pattern a go yourself. Pattern wise it took a bit of concentration to begin with. The front straps were worked first and then the back was added on to these but eventually, once past the neckline, the rest of the top was worked it the round.
So here is the finished item



The detail from the back


View from the back with 3 lines of the pattern repeat (so hard to take a picture of it on while home alone)





Have quite enjoyed making clothes for myself. I've finished both this and a striped jumper in the last month. The thing I liked most with this one was I could add a few extra rows at the bottom to the perfect length I wanted. Custom sizing in a way. Anyway I keep finding myself browsing Ravelry for more clothing patterns I fancy but have a few other things to get on with first and I haven't knitted anything in a while. Must rectify that

Louise x

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Crochet Holiday/beach bag

I have finished my crochet vest/tank top and I mean completely finished, sewn in the ends AND blocked! The last two of these usually take me a while to get round to. I shall hopefully find time to blog on friday and show it to you. I've been working away on my cross stitch wedding sampler but find I can't cope without a crochet project on the go at the same time. So I have started on a crochet holiday/beach bag. The pattern is Slouch Bag from Nicki Trench's book Geek Chic Crochet




My sister got me the book for christmas but this is the first pattern I've made from it. I'm quite enjoying using the Catherine wheel stitch as something a bit different.



First side is already finished so shouldn't take too long to do although everything seems to be going crazily busy right now. Be sure to pop by everyone else's blogs and see what they've been making there's loads of lovely things in some delicious colours Tami's Amis