Summer dress for Anastasia

Летнее платье для Настеньки

A week or so ago I came across an easy to make idea of a very beautiful summer dress with a crocheted yoke at Lanas de Ana. It seemed really attractive idea to make this fast project for one of the girls. Besides, I searched for a maxi dress for girls, but couldn't find one. So it was decided to make this dress as a maxi. I didn't follow the initial pattern, just took the idea.

Примерно неделю назад я набрела на простую в исполнении идею нежного летнего платья с вязаной крючком кокеткой. Дело было в блоге Lanas de Ana. Идея мне показалась быстро-выполнимой и потому особенно привлекательной. К тому же, я уже некоторое время нахожусь в поисках макси-платья для девочек, и это был повод сшить такое своими руками. Я не стала следовать предоставленной инструкции, только вдохновилась этой чудесной идеей.

And here it is!

И вот, что получилось!

I shared a pattern of a granny square that was used as a basic motive for the yoke in my previous blog post.

В предыдущей записи блога я поделилась схемой квадратного мотива, из которого состоит кокетка платья.

And close up of the back with buttons.

А сзади пуговки-цветочки.

Sharing a pattern for a one-peace wrap cardigan for my baby-girl

Finally, Marge can try her new short-sleeve cardigan in the colours of a red poppy and a blue knapweed field! As I wrote in a previous post, I've searched for a nice and not so common pattern for a baby-girl cardigan, but haven't found any, and decided to design one by myself. It came out so nice and work on it was so enjoyable, that it would be just wrong to keep the pattern within myself rather than share it.

Also I would be really happy to hear that someone used this pattern and managed to make this cardigan. So, if you intend to try this, please, take a picture of a result and share it with me!

This is a rather easy pattern of a beautiful one-peace wrap cardigan for a little baby girl.
Marge is two month old now and 62 cm long. This cardigan is a bit larger size. But you can make your own measurements and crochet cardigan of any size you need. I'll explain you, how.

The whole work consists of 4 stages:
1) after taking measurements, crochet a shoulders part (I'm not sure about professional terminology, so I'll just call it "shoulders part"). It is very similar to crocheting a granny square, only without it's center;
2) crochet a waist band;
3) crochet body part;
4) edging.

First of all, you should take some measurements. The easiest way to do this is to take any of your baby's tops (I took Marge's sleeper) and measure it. What you need is to measure the width of a neck hole (N), bust width (W) and sleeve aperture depth (S).

As you can see (you can click on the pictures to get a larger view), I've got N = 11 cm, W = 26 cm and S = 10 cm.

Now count Z = (W - N) / 2 and BC segment length as (S - Z) * 2.

CD segment length equals N and DE equals BC.

I've got Z = 7.5 cm, CD = 11 cm, DE and BC = 5 cm.

I'll refer to the mark up of this scheme further.

You will need yarn of three colours.
I used Turkish cotton yarn Alize Bella of a red, coral and cream colour in my work.

Pattern of a crocheted hat with flower for a girl

All of a sudden a heat wave came across Riga.  But it won't prevent me from sharing a pattern of Veronika's new hat.

My daughter wanted a hat with a flower, so I crocheted one nice flower too. I used Indigo colour from my favorite Alize Bella cotton yarns to make the hat fit daughter's blue coat.

But before I start, some pics of today: a morning after the first thunderstorm in Latvia this year. Air after the rain became moist and warm.

Back to the pattern, I drew a scheme (pictures can be clicked for a large picture), but to be on the safe side, I wrote it down too.

So, here goes the pattern of a crochet hat for a 5-year old girl (head diameter 50 cm (19.5 inch)).

 Pattern 

• st = stitch
• ch = chain
• sc = single crochet
• dc = double crochet
• hdc = half double crochet
• sl st = slip stitch
• rep = repeat

Start with colour "Acid".
1) Chain 4 and join with a slip stitch to make a ring.
2) Chain 2,  work 11 dc into the ring, sl st into 2d ch of initial chain-2.