A dress for Annie
A drum roll is required for this .... I have finally finished Annie's dress! (Annie is my four-year-old niece.)
To make this I used theĀ Hooded Sweater Dress pattern by Anjibeane, but I didn't want the critters on the front of it, so I made two removable brooches, using patterns out of theĀ Happy Hooker book.
As you may notice, it's not at all technically difficult, just time consuming!Ā I actually had all these colours in my stash, but ran out of the pink (which is discontinued), and thought 'thanks goodness for that' because I was done with the stripes (that's why the sleeves go solid red). I don't know that I'd make the body striped again, or if I did, I'd do two rows of each colour so you came back to where you started and could leave your wools attached, because changing colours at the end of each row gets very tedious, and you have lots of ends.
I'm so relieved to be finished! I don't know that it is going to be that comfortable, because single crochet can be a little stiff, but she will be warm as toast because it's pure wool.
