Crochet Pretty Summer Dress for Pretty Little Girls

With summer almost here and bunch of mercerized cotton in candy colors laying around in my closet , I thought why not make a cute little jewel of a dress for my little princess.

For any of the moms out there and even more for every handmade passionate striving to make a buck out of crocheting beautiful things, the child clothing are the easiest things to make.

Indeed ...they need less fabric, you don't have the chance to get bored making them and they are usually cheaper and easier to sell than a grown-up clothing item.

The practical things aside... a pretty dress in contrasting colors can be the ideal item for a baby girl or a cute toddler to wear at the church or during any possible outing on a warm summer day.

So about this baby dress crochet pattern...

• the bodice is a basic raglan style square
• the skirt is made of basic dc , shell style , clusters, increasing occurs naturally, if you want a tighter model simply start with 2dc , ch 1 on the first skirt row and increase the number of  dc as you go down.

Bodice details

Yarn size and hook size

The bodice chart

Upper side : skirt trimming chart

Lower side: skirt chart

Flutter sleeve effect trimming chart 

So that's about it...

Credits for this post's pictures go to Liveinternet .ru ( that is where I found them)

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xoxo 

Eva

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Free Crochet Chart for Cold Weather Bolero

Hello my lovely crochet passionate

I am forever looking for new and exciting patterns to post. No , they are not mine, nor did I have the chance to try them, but I am posting here things I plan to make so I won't forget about them, daring projects I am extremely fond of and mostly everything me and my BFFs are chatting about every day.

Yes we are hooked on crochet and long live Facebook for allowing me to meet the most talented and most amazing women sharing my passion.

So without any other further blah...blah here is the chart for the above posted beauty:

The basic motifs - 2 major, 2 minor and the way you should display them. I like about the design the fact that it is really versatile. The motifs being of similar sizes you can use both or only 1 of each. I am positively tempted to make one using only the one from the left of the picture because of its 3D flower effect. 

How to link the motifs.

I especially wanted to post this pattern because I noticed so many patterns out there not carrying these particular instructions. For me personally linking the floral motifs was a pain. I was pretty fond of linking granny squares and I figured that linking florals will be the same. However my first shrug was a huge mess.

Since then I really appreciate the charts coming with this extra instructions.

What kind of yarn to use...hmmm that a tricky one.

the original pattern is in Chinese and I don't know Chinese so my best guess would be cotton or very thin acrylic yarn. I guess it is all about how twisted the yarn is for the floral motifs to be both delicate and sturdy.

I hope you liked the design because I love it, and I hope you will give me a feedback  in case any of you choose to make this.

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xoxo

Eva

source : liveinternet.ru

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Crochet SummerTunic Dress Free Chart and Photo Instructions

Another week, another amazing idea I feel compelled to share inside a humble blog posts. It is just a blog post since I bearely dare to start such a beautiful project with a 7 months' old on my hands.

Still since I found this tutorial on liveinternet.ru I cannot stop thinking about it.

I have a thing for tunics and dresses as crochet art goes and I am especially fond of patterns I can easily follow visually and adapt to my figure which is not exactly thin :)

However as you will see below, the pattern is easy to handle by increasing with the help of a supplementary number of double crochet stitches.

Make sure you measure yourself before you start.

The yoke and how to start the increase

the tear shape yoke - 7 rows completed

How to conect frot to back

Front - close up look

Back closeup look

Yoke chart manually written ( sorry for the picture quality)

 Chart detail (yoke and middle section -waist - basic pattern)

Chart detail - Increasing the number of stitches fron waist down

Another version of increase in case you want to make it into a dress

How to count depending on your size

 

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