Hashtag crochet, everyone…

Casual ravelry scrolling one night lead me to a Latvian crochet designer. And she was having a sale. I don’t think i need to say much else…

On that night i convinced myself that i don’t need any new projects, that i can’t actually afford more patterns and i have enough WIPs on the go already. I slept on it… went to work, lived my day… and the following evening i was the proud owner of 5 of her patterns.

Everything was justified by a) the sale and b) the fact that i was frogging one of my works in progress and replacing with one of her’s. Oh, and c) these are crochet patterns, i haven’t actually bought any crochet patterns before so that’s a clean slate i got to play with.

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Crochet eats a lot more and i mean A LOT MORE yarn than you’d expect. Even though i simplified the pattern by making only the front bit fancy and leaving back plain, i still run out of yarn. I started it at the beginning of September, i run out of yarn about the same time and so did the shop… it took weeks for WAK to get it back in stock.

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Here we are, it’s mid October, i’ve finished my Overly Sweater and i’m chuffed to bits.

The pattern was tricky at first and i had to google tutorials for certain stitches. No, no, the pattern has perfect descriptions for everything, i just needed a video tutorial as i’m sometimes special. Anyways, once i learnt all the stitches it was easy peasy.

This is my first, well… first successful crochet garment. I used WAK pima cotton and i think it really worked for this pattern. I followed the pattern for the front piece, then when i realised i might be running low on yarn, i decided to make a plain back with just the bottom feature of puff stitches to save yarn. Also, i didn’t see much point having fancy pattern on the back just like the front. Plus it makes dressing up easier, you know, easy to spot which way round i must wear this… I also put my own twist onto the sleeves. I made them plain with the same puff stitch design used on the front & back around elbow area. Stitching up was a royal pain, oh, and weaving the ends… God, i hate that part… but it’s done and currently blocking as i’m writing this up.

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It was refreshing to work on a crochet garment for a change. It was quick and satisfying. Learnt new things and expanded my wardrobe yet again… Win – win 8)

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