Pol-Eng crocheting blog / Pol-Ang blog o szydełkowaniu

Once the first dress has been finished, I started working on the next. The following pattern I have chosen. This pattern comes from a book titled "The crochet block Bible" written by L. Roberts and H. Lodinsky (Search Press, 2015, p. 134-135), where you can find many more interesting designs. The electronic version of diagram I found on the blog that belongs to the Candida International and also at the Ravelry . The size of dress I am planning to make is 14/16 UK (42/44 EUR, 12/14 US). The size of the sample is 10 cm (4 inches). I am using a 100% mercerised cotton thread (Scheepjes Maxi, col. 750 - donkerrood, 100 g = 560 m) and 2 mm size hook (although recommended size is 1.25-1.5 mm, US 6-10). A 100 g ball translated into 32 ready elements. So far, I have used 300 g and I have got 96 elements. To be very honest with you, this is not the end of my work but since I was very curious how the dress will look, I have already started joining the elements. Initially,...

One of my this year new resolutions was (and still is!) to make 3 crochet dresses, for my mum, my sister-in-law and myself. I have recently finished a dress for my sister-in-law, which overall took me about a month to make. I used a pattern published in a Russian journal, which luckily for me, had an easy to follow diagram of a round motif. The size of a motif is 8 cm (before blocking), and it gets extended to 9 cm (after blocking). The original pattern is designed for the size of 14/16 UK (42/44 EUR, 12/14 US, 46/48 RUS). Since my sister-in-law is a tall and slim lady, thus, I needed to modify the original motif set up. For the size of 10/12 UK (38/40 EUR, 8/10 US) I made overall 116 of motives, which later on I sewed together manually using a yarn needle. I used 100% mercerised cotton (Rico - Essentials crochet, col. 18 - silver) and a crochet hook of 2 mm size. I added a border around the neck using a shell stitch (escalope). Overall, I used 6,5 skeins of 50 g we...