I wnet to Idea Store and spot an interesting Crochet Today issue. I bought yarn on sale thinking of making one thing from that issue. I finished it, a dress for my daughter, making it longer from the top pattern. I intended to show off a little bit, and discovered Crochet Today was not being published any more. So sad! I loved this Crochet magazine better than Crochet World or Interweave Crochet because its patterns are always clearly written and diagram included. One pattern was laid out at a time, not like others, the beginning of the pattern was on page 5, and the end was on page 60, for example.
Sigh!
But this is my daughter's dress:
I bought Red Heart Baby Love yarn on sale in Walmart. The Banana Yellow made me think of her crazy about Bell in "Beauty and the Beast". But when I was crocheting the dress, she told me she already had a yellow dress. At that time, she was into Elsa in Frozen. Poor mom, always late and slow! But when I told her if she didn't like it, I can present it to her friend, she said NO. She tried on eagerly but refused being taken pictures. Perhaps mom show her off so much.
The above picture originally was from Crochet Today July/ August 2009. My daughter is 4, so the yoke for this size needed 9 flowers or 12 flowers for size 8 and 10. But I looked at the picture, I thought the yoke would stretch and decided to eliminate 1 flower. So, my daughter's dress has 8 instead of 9 flowers. Therefore, the armholes are smaller.
I lengthened the top by adding 4 more rows at the end.
Just hope I can take other pictures when she wears the dress officially!
Happy Crocheting!
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