Lens Flare and Vintage Crochet Dress - a match made in heaven!

I bought the crochet pattern here from etsy but I must admit to changing it slightly. I can't seem to ever follow instructions - be it a pattern or a recipe or anything else. A special defect I have. Yeah. Real special. Anyway I just changed the shell stitch slightly - other than that this was simple and fun to make. I used Heirloom %100 cotton 8 ply.

And yes - the pattern also has adult sizes for matching mother and daughter outfits! Oooh! What colour shall I make mine?

(Thanks Pepper for being such an inspired model.)

Finished my first crochet dress

I really love crochet. I made this dress from this pattern. I used Patons bluebell 5 ply in charcoal grey. To make the dress smaller (size 6)I used a size 2 hook. The dress is made all in one piece which means no sewing up! Yay!

I put ribbon in the sleeves to make them puffy...now I just want to make more dresses.

free crochet dress patterns

Here are some quick links to free crochet dress patterns I have found

 

This great vintage pattern for matching Mother and Daughter dresses

 This gorgeous round yoke dress from Bernat

A sweet Spring daisy dress from crochet today

This gorgeous modern t-shirt dress from pardon my chaos

 

And a lovely granny stitch baby dress from days of yarning 

 

I'm almost finished this dress from a free pattern

which is for one twin and I need to choose another to make for the other twin...and with Spring not so far away I'd better get busy because I'd like to crochet dress for myself as well!

Playlist

Making - this crochet dress

Free pattern here.

Reading - Restoration by Rose Tremain.

Have enjoyed other Rose Tremain books, especially "Music and Silence" and "The Colour". 




Watching - Broadchurch on ABC iview. It's a fine English production which relies heavily on the high quality performances of Olivia Colman and David Tennant. Despite an overuse of focus pulls and fancy arty-farty camera tricks (as a former film student it kind of drives me batty!), I'm enjoying the emotional pull of this story.

Listening - Hardcore History podcasts 
These are terrific history lessons that are in no way boring!
'In "Hardcore History" the very unconventional Dan Carlin takes his "Martian", outside-the-box way of thinking and applies it to the past.'

Wearing - bobby socks and t-bars.

What's on your playlist this week???