water’s edge, a remake

Posted on by trish

 

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A remake of the Pas­tel dress, with a yarn that reminds me of the seashore — the dif­fer­ent shades of blue in the dis­tance, the greens of algae and sea­weed washed up on the rocks.

Sim­i­lar to the remake of the Gink­go top, this sweater uses the same lace pat­tern as the top of the Pas­tel dress (which was a vari­a­tion of the Gink­go lace pat­tern), minus the arm­hole shap­ing and with a sim­pler boat neck shaping.

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The yarn I used was Mary Max­im Prism in Still Waters. I love this yarn. It’s afford­able, super wash­able, the colours are amaz­ing, has a nice drape. I wish there is a Mary Max­im clos­er to where I live… *sigh*

It has a very sim­ple shape and stitch pat­tern, so I imag­ine it would look nice with a var­ie­gat­ed yarn like Noro, or a spark­ly yarn for fanci­er occasions :)

I used:

Light worsted weight yarn, approx. 700 yards

5 mm and 4.5 mm hooks

Tapes­try nee­dle for sewing

Sweater mea­sures: 34″ around, 19.5″ in length

Length is eas­i­ly adjustable by work­ing more or few­er rows. Width can be adjust­ed by adding or sub­tract­ing stitch­es in the foun­da­tion ch by mul­ti­ples of 6.

6 stitch­es = 1 3/8”

Pat­tern:

Stitch pat­tern:
Fan = [dc, 2 ch, dc, 2 ch, dc] in same space

Front: 

With 5 mm hook, ch 85.

Row 1: dc in 6th ch from hook, skip next 2 ch, dc in next ch, [skip next 2 ch, fan in next ch, skip next 2 ch, dc in next ch] to end, [dc, ch 2, dc] in last ch, turn.

Row 2: ch 3, skip first dc, fan in dc between fans, [dc in 2nd dc of next fan, fan in next dc between fans] to end, dc in 3rd ch of turn­ing ch, turn.

Row 3: ch 5, dc in 1st dc, dc in 2nd dc of next fan, [fan in next dc between fans, dc in 2nd dc of next fan] to end, [dc, ch 2, dc] in turn­ing ch, turn.

Repeat rows 2 & 3 until there are 34 rows alto­geth­er, end­ing with row 2.

Neck shap­ing:

Row 35: work in pat­tern to the 4th fan of the row, dc in 2nd dc of the 4th fan, dc in next dc between fans, turn.

Row 36: ch 5, dc in next dc, dc in the 2nd dc of next fan, work in pat­tern till end, turn.

Row 37–38: work in pat­tern. Fas­ten off.

Attach yarn to the oth­er cor­ner of row 34, repeat rows 35–38.

Back:

Repeat pat­tern for front until neck shap­ing. Work 2 more rows so that there are 36 rows alto­geth­er, end­ing with row 2.

Neck shap­ing:

Row 37–38: repeat rows 35 and 36 of front. Fas­ten off.

Attach yarn to the oth­er cor­ner of row 36, repeat rows 37–38.

Assem­bly:

With right sides togeth­er and wrong sides fac­ing, sew shoul­der seams together.

With right sides togeth­er and wrong sides fac­ing, sew side seams togeth­er, start­ing at the top of the 11th row from the top of the sweater.

Turn sweater right side out.

Edg­ing: with 4.5 mm hook

Neck­line: attach yarn to a dc (not part of a fan) on the back of neck. ch 1, sc in same dc, [sc in 1st dc of fan, sc in next ch 2 sp, skip 2nd dc of fan, sc in next ch 2 sp, sc in 3rd dc of fan, sc in next dc] around, sl st in begin­ning sc of found, fas­ten off.

Arm­holes: attach yarn to any space on the arm­hole. We will be cro­chet­ing into the side of the rows, or what I call “row-ends”. ch 3, work 2 dc in each row-end around, sl st in top of begin­ning ch 3, fas­ten off. Repeat for the oth­er armhole.

Bot­tom edge: attach yarn to any ch 2 space, ch 3, work 1 dc in every ch 2 space, every base of a fan, and every base of a dc, sl st in top of begin­ning ch 3, fas­ten off.

Weave in all ends.

And it’s done! :D

Here’s an in-between shot in which I was caught adjust­ing the neck­lace, which I thought turned out kind of cool and styl­ish :D

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Hope you enjoy the remake! Have a hap­py Sat­ur­day! :D

 

20 thoughts on “water’s edge, a remake”

  1. This sweater looks so love­ly, Trish, very much the sea shore…thank you for the pattern…

  2. Trish, the water’s edge is beau­ti­ful and looks great on you! Thanks for sharing.

  7. It’s so beau­ti­ful and sim­ple, I real­ly love it. Any ideas of how make it M and XL?

  8. Thank you for vis­it­ing Mariel! To make larg­er sizes I would sug­gest first fig­ur­ing out the bust mea­sure­ment that you want, i.e. 36″ for size M, then try the fol­low­ing guide: 

    Length is eas­i­ly adjustable by work­ing more or few­er rows. Width can be adjust­ed by adding or sub­tract­ing stitch­es in the foun­da­tion ch by mul­ti­ples of 6. 6 stitch­es = 1 3/8”

    The pat­tern makes a sweater that’s about 34″ around. So if you’re try­ing to make a sweater that’s at least 36″ around, then you would add 6 ch to the foun­da­tion ch for both the front and back pieces, end­ing up with a sweater that’s approx. 36 3/4″ around.

    For a size XL (typ­i­cal­ly approx. 43″ around), the­o­ret­i­cal­ly you would add 24 ch to the foun­da­tion ch of both front and back. But now you’ll have to change the stitch counts for the neck shap­ing… I haven’t test­ed larg­er sizes and if I were mak­ing an XL size I would just mea­sure as I go… if you’re try­ing to make an XL size, please feel free to leave anoth­er com­ment when you get to the neck shap­ing part, and I can give you more sug­ges­tions for the stitch count.

    Hope this helps!

  9. Thanks you soooo much for the pat­tern. I will try to make it quite soon and i’ll show you the pic­tures via IG.

  11. This shirt is so beau­ti­ful! I would love to trans­late it into Dutch on my web­site if you are okay with it. I am sure there are a lot of Dutch cro­cheters who will love this shirt as well. Ofcourse all cred­its will go to you and I will post the link to your web­site. I am look­ing for­ward to your reply.

  12. Thanks so much Lisa for offer­ing to trans­late my pat­tern! That would be so won­der­ful. Please send me the link once it’s done, I’ll link to it on my blog and Rav­el­ry page. Thanks again!

  14. Thanks so much Lisa! I will add the link to the Rav­el­ry pat­tern page and on the blog! :D Thank you again for tak­ing the time to translate!

  15. Trish,
    Would the mul­ti­ple to add be 12 for a Large size? I read your reply to Mariel and I thought that if the stitch count to increase is mul­ti­ples of 6 for a Medi­um (34″) and 24 total for an XL (~ 43″) then the add for a Large must be 12 stitch­es, correct?? 

    Thanks for giv­ing me some­thing else to make with my RHU!!! This top is BEAUTIFUL!

  16. Hi Susan, glad you like the pat­tern! The pat­tern makes a sweater that’s about 34″ around. 6 sts = 1 3/8″

    Adding 6 ch to the foun­da­tion ch for each of the front and back pieces (so you’re actu­al­ly adding 12 sts alto­geth­er) you would end up with a fin­ished size of approx. 36 3/4″ around. 

    Adding anoth­er 12 ch to each of the front and back pieces (so that would be 24 sts more than the orig­i­nal pat­tern) will make a fin­ished size of approx. 39.5″.

    Hope this helps!

  17. I would like to known what size of hook is 5mm is this Amer­i­can size please help

  19. Is this an error… or what does this mean? 

    Row 3: ch 5, ch in 1st dc

    the ‘ch in first dc’ part??

  20. Hi Alyssa, thank you for point­ing that out! it should be “dc in 1st dc”. It’s now cor­rect­ed. Thanks again! Hap­py crocheting!

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