Crochet dress part 2

Following on from the first post about this dress:

https://kariscraft.space/index.php/2021/02/24/crochet-dress/

I didn’t take many more progress pictures. I kept trying the dress on to increase to the right size and length having measured how much the last few rows of the colourwork would be. I distinctly remembered thinking that my stitch count needed to be divisible by 4 for the colourwork (I was sure my stitch count at the start was 104), so having decreased 4 per row, and increased 4 per row I was certain the count would be correct for the pattern… I was wrong, and it should be divisible by 5! But it was easy enough to ‘fudge’ the extra stitch in the first couple of rows! For some reason I did the same on the sleeves – and forgot it should be 5 and started the colourwork on multiple of 4 for the first sleeve (did it correct for the second, no-one will notice!).

I did some shaping on the sleeves. In hindsight it should have been started sooner and been more gradual, but it looks fine on! I decreased a couple of stitches on alternate rows towards the end of the sleeve. I made the sleeves long (anticipating sitting outside pubs hopefully in the not too distant future), and added colourwork on these too.

Having never made a crochet jumper before I had never finished off with a ‘rib’. This was quite effective, just alternating a front post treble (UK terms) / slip stitch around the bottom.

I also did some slip stitches around the neck, as it was curling over too much for me.

The finished article. I was blown away with how many likes and comments this got on the Lilla Bjorn Crochet and Friends Group Facebook page (815!)

Note, started 09.02.21, finished 13.03.21