I've been working on a crochet project called Mei Mei from Doris Chan's Everyday Crochet. I love pretty much everything in this book. Even though the book is older and the styling may look a little old fashioned on some, the styles all have good bones. I have been looking for a little shrug pattern. This turned out pretty quickly once I figured out what I was doing. I saw that one Raveler completed this little shrug in 3 hours! It was more like 3 evenings for me. :-)
Sunday is the little granddaughter's birthday. She will be 3! I made her a birthday outfit, but the top came out too long. I cut just about an inch off of it after I took pictures, so I think it will be a little better. I didn't want to cut off too much since I had added the pockets and just estimated where to put them based on the length I had made.
To make the cupcakes I drew a cupcake and then traced the top and bottom separately onto heat and bond. After I adhered it to the dress pieces, I stitched lines for the cupcake liner and zigzagged around the outline of the cupcake. I used a permanent marker to draw lines on the center cupcake.
After I took this picture, I removed the basting you can see around the neckline, and topstitched the yoke which also stitched down the inside of the seam where the yoke and skirt join.
We had a little distraction yesterday. Right next door a mamma bear and two babies were foraging around. I'm thankful that my neighbor called me so that we could walk over and take a look.
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I have also been looking for a crochet shrug for awhile & this one is really cute . I'm an advanced beginner - was it hard ?
It took me a little bit to understand her pattern writing style, but once I didi, it was easy. I'm a self-taught adv. beginner/ intermediate.
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