Most of the time, I want to be a nurturing, encouraging craft blogger. I want to present things in a way that demystifies the process. I want you to think that you can do any of the things that I do here (and you can! really!). I hope this comes across here, on my blog. I hope you see I'm a person, just like you.
Except for the next few moments ...
... when I want you to think I am a
total crochet badass.
Yes, you're seeing that right. I figured out how to beautifully increase and decrease the peacock pattern.
Ka-pow!
All right ... back to reality.
What I did was take the pattern in it's small form, and figure out the part I wanted to take out. See the erased part in the middle?
Then I charted the beginning, and when I got to the row where I was going to start decreasing, I just started erasing stitches, then I'd crochet a little and see how it looked, and then I'd refine my chart with what I actually did. Then, when it was time to increase, I did the same thing.
Cake! Really. :)
Here is the swatch folded in half so you can see the slope of the increase and decrease. The top edge of the piece in the photo is the flat edge. The nip of the decrease will help fit the sweater around my chest and the flare of the increase will work perfectly for my hips. Yay! I can't wait to try them out IRL!
Here's an extra beauty shot of the increase. Special thanks to
dudecraft for calling me a "total badass" when it comes to crochet. I mean, he's a dude, so he'd know a total badass when he sees one. Right?