Lest you think all I’ve been doing is buying yarn… I finished this a week or two ago. The first one I made is here. This time, it’s the same length as the French Girl Deja pattern, but I made some adjustments to smooth out the neckline, and did a slightly denser shell stitch on the last row of the border. My intention was to make long sleeves, but I’ve been wearing it around as is. One of these days I might finish those sleeves and join them.
I look like a linebacker in this shot! 🙂
ETA: A few notes about pattern adjustments.
- For both: In the row where you create the arm opening, the spacing as prescribed by the pattern was way too large for my proportions. So I wrapped the fabric around my torso to see where I needed to place the openings.
For the light green version:
- I did a series of edge decreases at the neckline, above the row where you place the armhole openings. This created a smooth, plunging neckline
- In order to reduce the floppiness of the border, I used a smaller hook size around the neckline.
- For the same purpose, I also substituted (dtr, ch)x5 for the shells in the last row all the way around, and x6 for the shells on either side of each of the bottom corners. Dtr = double treble crochet.
- Instead of crocheting the ties into the border, I just did a separate length of chain stitch. That way, I can tie it wherever I want or leave it off.
Very cute!
Beautiful job! It looks great.
That looks wonderful and I LOVE the color.
Very nice piece of work. Green is my fav too. It’s a Summer wear.
Tks for looking at my crochet hangbag in Crochetville.
bonjour rina….a little birdie told me you had whipped up some beautiful versions of my french girl deja pattern…so i flew over to your blog…oh my…so very lovely in green!!!
and i love your mods for your size…i would like to make a link to your blog and show off your stellar work…xo, kristeen & the french girls
I love that so much! I also love that everything is always a WIP and we crafters can modify our wardrobes for different seasons by adding sleeves! Great job!