Hello everyone, welcome to another beautiful Monday. Some days ago I shared a skirt I made for a client. Today I am glad to share the cropped sweater that was paired with the skirt. Making sweaters can be quite delightful, probably because it doesn’t require so much technicality. Although the lazy part of me likes to do projects that do not take so long to complete, sometimes I indulge in projects that take a while to finish. This was one of them.
In the spirit of making the outfit colourful, I decided to use this flame design that I had earlier used for a project early last year. The only difference is that I switch colours between yellow and red, so where there was red in the last project there is yellow in this new one and vice versa.
To begin with this sweater, I started with making the front piece of the sweater since that was the most challenging part. I started with a chain which was equivalent to the area around her torso divided by 2. The first few rows were regular double crochets, I started the design on the 6th row. I already had a graphgan for this design so I went to search from my drive since I no longer had it in my phone storage.
It started easy until I got to the point where I had to work with 4 colours at a time. It can get confusing too, so I made sure to be 100% focused because I didn’t know how 1 mistake would affect the overall look. Once I was done creating that design, I worked on reducing the armhole part. Then I also worked on both arms. I couldn't take pictures of the entire project because it was mostly done at night.
Once I was done with both the front and back panels I noticed that the front panel was a little small in the area that had that design as compared to the back panel. So I added a mixture of single, half double and double crochets to the affected area so it would match with the back panel.
Afterwards, I joined all sides and here’s the final result. I hope you like it.
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Lovelovelove!!! THe sweater is even cuter than the striped skirt. I love colorwork in knitting and crochet but so far I never do it as I get nervous with the different threads tangling around :-DDD BUt I so love the effects the colourwork can achieve. The flame is so great with the different shades of red to yellow. I think after the lace shawl I am knitting (also a new technique for me) I need to try out colorwork.
I follow a designer on instagram who makes very lovely crochet+knitted cardigans and sweater with colorwork. Your sweater immediately reminded me of her as yours is also wonderful.
Not sure if you use instagram?
https://www.instagram.com/p/BkzzyHAlNrK/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Or this jacket
https://www.instagram.com/p/BXShl6AgiCX/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
(Lydia Morrow, whatlydiamade )
I also get nervous when working with more than 2 colours. I mostly limit my movement during that time for fear of them tangling and on some occasions, I have had to cut the thread and start from another point because they ended up tangling around each other. I would love to see you try out colourwork
I really love this cardigan, I wonder how long it took her to make it. I would try it but it feels like it will take me 3 months to finish hehehe
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😍It’s so pretty! And it looks so neat. I haven’t tried crocheting a sweater yet; I’ll do it soon.
I haven’t seen the skirt post. I’ll check it out.
Thanks dear. I look forward to seeing your first cardigan. I saw your sweater vest, you did a great job with it, I have no doubt your sweater would look awesome.
🥺Awn…thank you!
When I first saw the sweater the colors were familiar to me. This is such a cute pair with that skirt. I love the flame design and the colors you added within it. This is really good stitch work @blezyn!
Thank you so much. I'm glad you like it, I tried to make it as colourful as I can, as per her request
Wow, the designs on the dress make it more colorful and attractive. thanks for sharing.
Thank you!
Beautiful thanks for sharing @blezyn
Thanks dear❤️
You’re welcome love 😘