As a crocheter there are a lot of things I have not done yet and even more things like patterns and designs that I am yet to discover. While bearing that in mind I always try to do better with every design I make.
Now why did I start with that? This particular design tested me. Crocheting is patience first before skill and any other but this short taught me a whole new level of patience.
Back to where it all began, my uncle picked this design out of the sample I sent to him when he wanted to order and I was like “yeah that’s cool how hard could it possibly be?” Errrrrrrr verrrrry!!!!!!!
I cleared my order process and got into it. Now my misconception or the part where I got it all wrong was that I thought it was some sort of a hexagon stitch.
Was that the case? Absolutely not! But I made something like this in the past so I had a little hope “like yeah I can totally redo this”.
Bear in mind that this bragging was with a 2.5mm hook and single strand 2ply or very thin 3ply acrylic yarn. I got started and I was like oh this is easy it’s going well.
Did the second front panel and realized the length was too short and that if I want to stitch the exact look I’ll have to make the starting chain way longer than this. This was the first frogging.
The second frogging of the pair was not long enough so I had to frog again. The third one was long but the proportions of color switching made it impossible to make the pattern without changing how it looks and in all this, how to make the collar held me by the neck because the reference picture had those parts covered by the full cloth itself so I was on my own.
Finally the fourth length was okay, I got the collar perfectly and I was finally free to duplicate the design for the back. And no I couldn’t do the back first since the front panels would decide how the back would look so you get my drift.
The back? chef’s kiss. And now the sleeve. As you can see these were not regular sleeved so I had to make the patch first then attach it to make it round then join it to the main project.
After all my back pain and sleepless nights, because there was no way I would tell a client sorry or I can’t deliver what you wanted. Ain’t no way!!! I put the “Doppio” shirt together. I think I ate!!
Safe to say my client loved it from the way he spoke about it. Hopefully I make more color mixes for this. But until then thank you for reading my blog today ❤️
The supplies that I used in making this
2.5mm hook
Stitch markers
Acrylic yarn
Scissors
Measurement Tape
Ps: these pictures belong to me and we’re taken with my mobile device.