CROCHET VALENTINE SHIRT

Welcome everyone to this beautiful Monday. I hope you are all doing great. Today I am sharing a piece I made. This was made for a lovely couple and I must say I love how it turned out.

I was quite excited to start this project, not just because I love the colors they chose but because this would be my second time making a crochet shirt and I wanted to implement some of the things I learned from the last one on this one.

Somehow I underestimated the amount of work this shirt would require. I just figured it was regular granny stitches but I did not think it would come with its challenges. As I said in my previous post working with vertical stitches can be a bit tricky (I learned the hard way).

I had done about 70% of the work on the first shirt when I realized the length was way shorter than what I wanted it to be and even at that, I did not want to unravel because I had done quite a bit of work.

So, I tried the next best thing, which was to attach a new yarn to the project and try to add it to the already existing work. While that worked out fine, the perfectionist in me could not keep going because I thought people would know when they look at the piece and I wanted to do a good job.

Eventually, I just started afresh and made the starting chain about 4 inches longer than I wanted so that when it shrinks it would be the exact height I wanted and that worked perfectly. For this shirt, I started with the back piece, which seemed more straightforward than the front pieces. Also, I was working on both projects at the same time since they were going to the same person.

When I was done with the back piece I did the 4 front pieces. The neck was a bit tricky, so I made some notes on that for next time. Although I made it work, I feel it can be better. The hand was also straightforward.

One thing I did not particularly enjoy about this project was constantly having to change colors. It just made it more time-consuming. I was also worried about having to weave in the end but then I decided to just tie and burn, which turned out great.

Here is how it turned out after everything came together and I love it!

Thanks for stopping by❤