Well, I've embarked on making Christmas presents for friends, but instead of the usual scarves, hats and shawls and occasional blanket I've become much more ambitious and am trying my hand at garments.
Right now I'm working on the Drops Country Rose Shrug. I've never made one of these before. It seems pretty simple. A plain rectangular panel for the back, make big chain spaces for the arm holes then crochet in the round. Make two sleeves and sew 'em on.
I followed the directions and my gauge is fine. But the edge piece done in the round that folds back for the collar just did not look or feel big enough. I measured carefully, but there definitely weren't the same number of rows in the increase section as in the photo. I'd finished the edging section and decided to pull back all the increases to the first one and add another repeat to each set of the increases. If that makes sense. Basically two repeats, increase on the second repeat. Now I'm doing three repeats, increase on the third repeat.
I must say, the shell edging really does set off the shrug nicely.
I'm kind of dreading the sleeves. My eyes did glaze over whilst reading the instructions for the sleeves. Drops patterns are great but for me, and my skill level, I do find it's a case of trial and error to work out exactly what they're asking for sometimes. I think you do need to be experienced to work them. For me with a lot of patterns, they can only make sense when you're working them.
But it's a really nice pattern and I'm making it with Red Heart Anne Geddes baby DK in a "shades of" lilac yarn. Really nice to work with.
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