Follow Keri skirt to make this dress (and make adjustments as followed)

And increase just as often but with twice as many stitches and use treble crochet instead of hdc. Skip the waist elastic part as you don’t need extra rows to be folded around the elastic as you crochet on the opposite side of the row for the top part.

You start with a chainless foundation with treble stitch.

Before getting started:

Hook: 3 mm
Yarn: Superfine/fingering. 50 g = 160 m and/or sport/fine 50 g = 140 m. Choose the colors you like, or one color.
Stitches: Treble crochet, chain 3 at the end of every round (turning chains).
Switch yarn color: By bringing the new color in at the very last stitch of the old color (when you pull the yarn through at the end of the round when you slip stitch into the first stitch on the round). Then chain 3 in the new color (turning chains)
You will also need: A needle to sew in the ends and alternatively some neutral colored (similar to your skin tone) fabric to sew into the top/skirt. I used a rectangle for just the bust and sewed with needle and thread all around the edge and through the crochet dress on the wrong side. You can also wear a slip dress under or neutral colored underwear – or use it as a beach cover up dress.

How to always make stripes look good

I chose beige, two shades of blue, silver (that looks blue when paired with these colors!) and some sparkly yarn that I only crocheted in sc (simply because I didn’t have a lot of it and wanted to save some).

You can just mix the stripes at random and just leave the yarn end at the beginning of the row and pick it up later, as you work in the round. In the end you can just tie knots on the loose yarn and leave them hanging – you can also weave them in if you like, but it’s not necessary. Just make sure that when you do change color, that you make sure the yarn is always on the wrong side of the dress, so you don’t end up with yarn strands on the right side.

I like to always add a neutral color (white or beige or cream) between each color change, but sometimes I have switched it up and made two shades of blue/silver or beige/white after each other – this works best with similar colors, if I was using contrast colors I would have definitely seperated them with a beige color.

I had a shade of blue that I wasn’t a big fan of, so I only added a hdc row with it twice throughout the whole dress and I generally try and switch colors often.

When you have made the skirt part

Try on the skirt – make sure you put it onto the body to see where it sits on you. Is the waist tight to your waist? if not move the skirt down a bit, if it fits your waist well you can continue to crochet rows but now on the other side of your very first row. Insert your hook, chain 3 and start crocheting through the loops on the top of your row.
Crochet until you have the length you need for a dress. If your waist is smaller than the skirt opening, then do decreases – exactly how often and many increases you did, now you just crochet 2 stitches together to one instead of making 2 stitches in the same stitch. Decrease until it fits your waist. Continue with regular rows of no inc/dec (if you are pear shape like me. OR start increasing when you reach the bust. Increase the same as you did on the skirt, try on as you go and make sure you only increase until you have enough width for your bust.

Then do regular rows if needed at the end. Break off the yarn when you have the length you want. Tie knots on the ends inside the dress and weave in the other ends.

The straps

Then do a chainless foundation with single crochet for the straps. Approx. 1/3 of the way into the dress from the side. Make approx. 50 sc stitches in chainless foundation directly out from the dress. Make sure to try it on and put the strap over your shoulder – stretch it! Add or remove stitches if needed. Slip stitch to the opposite side of the dress – lay the dress flat to see where it should go or slip stitch while wearing it. Do the same with the other strap. Weave in the ends.

The lining

Now you can add a neutral colored piece of fabric if you want and hand sew through the edge all around into the inside of the dress. You can also use an old jersey t-shirt and cut it into a tube. Then sew the sides to the sides of the dress and also the top opening into the dress as well, so it stays in place.
I only added a piece for the top part.

Congrats, now you made a super cute every-day striped dress for summer! Make sure to tag @mati_denmark and tag #KeriDress if you share this on social media. s

You will need to follow Zoey top in order to make this version, but you don’t need to subtract from your measurements. We need the extra fabric. I used the same yarn and hook as the pattern, but I also used some baby blue ribbon yarn and some white bouclé yarn for the edge – simply because I only had secondhand yarn. The bouclé added another shade of white and also a different texture, I liked that. For the top I even used two different shades of white – it’s okay – an imperfect top is just as beautiful.

The following is the process I made the top.

Now to make the ruffles & add the elastic:

Take 2 pieces of children’s elastic (0,5 cm wide), wrap it around your under bust and over bust, tie a knot – you want it to fit tightly, but comfortably – you can always tie another knot later on if needed (after the elastic is added).

Crochet a hdc edge around the top (top and bottom) by making approc 2 hdc per row (1 per row + 1 between each row) while crocheting around the elastic – see my video tutorials for reference.

The bows:

Find some ribbon yarn (or literal ribbon) then make two bows and sew them onto the front (the points of the top) Take 4 long strands – the longer the better – and sew them each to the inside of the top – on the front and back.

The straps:

Crochet a long straps using sc chainless foundation from each of the points of the top (in front of the ribbon/behind the bow) until you have enough length to tie the strap on the shoulder.

The front scrunch:

Take a long piece of ribbon and weave it through the front of the top – through two rows – parallel to each other (from the bottom and up) and tie them to a bow on the front of the top so you can scrunch the top together.

And you’re done!

(Bonus: embrace the imperfection of loose ends, and leave the ends of yarn from where you crocheted the straps).

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Ever since I noticed how well boat necks fit me, I have been paying attention to boat neck tops in tv and film, and when I was rewatching Legally Blonde for the 20th time the other day, I fell in love with a striped blue-greenish top that Elle Woods is wearing while studying for the LSATS. She sits on the floor reading a book and wears jeans and a belt and has loose hair. sYou can check out the scene here.

To make this top – follow Helena top

How to make those wavy stitches

What I love so much about this top is that you can’t really crochet anything wrong per say – just follow the pattern for Helena top, make the foundation in dc and then start switching between hdc and dc. When you get to the next row either make hdc into hdc (look at the row below you whether it’s a small or big stitch), dc into dc OR do the opposite and make hdc into dc and dc into hdc. One will make the row look kinda crooked and the other make it look wavy – I did a bit of both and even just switched it up on one row – this means that you don’t have to think much, you can just kinda crohet whatever – make 10 hdc after each other then make 1 dc, 1 hdc, 1 hdc, 1 dc – like just do it completely random if you want.

How to always make stripes look good

The same goes for the stripes, yarn weights and colors – I chose beige, two shades of green, silver (that looks blue when paired with these colors!) and some sparkly yarn that I only crocheted in hdc (simply because I didn’t have a lot of it and wanted to save some). You can go for fine/sport like I did but with the hook size you can also use worsted or even bulky yarn – it’ll work great as well and give even more unique texture and enhance the wavy look even more. Especially if you use some sparkly bouclé yarn as I did, it makes if look really unique.

Again, you can just mix the stripes at random and even just leave the yarn end at the beginning of the row and pick it up later, as you work in the round. I like to generally always add a neutral color between each color change, but sometimes I have switched it up and made two shades of green after each other – this works best with similar colors, if I was using contrast colors I would have definitely seperated them with a beige or silver color.

Have fun with it!

Play around and have fun, this is the most unique top made from such a simple pattern. The pattern comes in three sizes but you can easily size it up, by just adding more stitches and rows – and try it on as you go. I made it in size S, the sizes are made to be on the bigger side, or at least make the top fit more loosely, which I like with this one, because the stitches are see-through.

You can wear a top under, or even just sew a piece of fabric on the inside to cover the breast area if you want (or wear a neutral colored bra).

I think this top will look so good with jeans but also a midi skirt.