It’s another beautiful Monday and another time to show you my next Christmas gift. This one will be going to my best friend, she has been more like a sister to me over the course of our 7+ years of friendship and I would say she deserves to feel some of my love this Christmas period.
I specifically chose this project for her because she has been wanting a new crochet dress for a while and for some reason, we haven’t gotten to it yet. I wanted this dress to be a surprised but also in a color she would like. So I told her to help me pick a color for a dress I am making, a color she would love to wear and I made different swatches with different mixtures and she picked this one.
I am glad I asked her, because I would have never picked this color for myself or anybody else. It’s a cute color but I would have gone with green or something like that. So for this project I wanted to work with lemon peel stitch, I happen to think it’s a really cute stitch and I have been looking for an excuse to work with it.
It is a pretty straight forward dress, although I did not get the pattern right at first. The increases were a bit slow because I didn’t take into account the fact that I was majorly working with single crochet stitches on the sides even though the pattern itself is a combination of both single crochets and double crochets.
Once I noticed the increases were not coming along as much as I wanted, I started making increases on every row and that helped a lot. Another thing with this pattern is that it stretches a lot which is something I didn’t expect. However, I am not sure if it’s because I used a big hook (5.5mm) or if it's just the pattern. I guess I will make a swatch with a smaller hook and find out.
I already had her measurements so it was easy to not let her know about it before hand. I decided to add ruffles to the dress just because I love ruffles and I thought it would look cute and it did. After I was done with the dress, I surprised her with it, she was really happy about it and that made me happy too.
Here is the final look of the dress, I hope you like it too.
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The dress and the color,absolutely beautiful.
Thank you so much
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This is lovely 😍😍😍😍.
One thing about this is that I would never have picked this color of yarn but see how magical the color looked in the dress I almost stole this with my eyes. The lemon peel stick is really a wow too and I wish to be that best friend who will be receiving this gift instead.
Well done dearie 🎉
I know right, maybe we should start giving bright colors a chance. I am glad you lie the dress. Thank you!
You welcome dear.
Hi blezyn I love this stitch, the color is also very cheerful and vibrant, ideal for this type of project. The dress looks great, thanks for sharing with us.
Thank you so much, I am glad you like it
This looks beautiful Bee. The back design too.
Thank you!
The dress is a good design and beautifully thought out. The ruffles and the bottom gives it a detailed and classy look.
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