back for good...

I love to crochet so much... I work on a call center and you may have called to one of those. Sometimes there are even 70 calls waiting while there are 120 people on the phone, sometimes we are waiting for a call for even 30 min... not very often though...

Well anyway, when there's "green" (meaning the time between calls) I am able to crochet. This last days I have been crocheting a lot. It helps me with the stress...

I've been looking for some patterns on the net to start new projects and discovered that some of the ideas I have on my head are not out there for me just to follow simple, fool proof instructions. Some I can make based on some patterns I find, but regardless of the thousands of patterns on the web that I have been able to download, some are still not there. I feel it's because I have been taking from the net and giving nothing back... SORRY!

From now on I'm going to try to write my patterns to share them... Here is my first pattern, not my first creation, but the first one I wrote in understantable terms... It's not like the most important pattern...but at least it's a beginning. Also, the photo doesn't make any justice to my sparkled-eyes barbie, she looked very beautiful in that outfit... The good part of this pattern is that is very fast to crochet as it's made with DCS instead of SCS as most barbie clothing patterns out there...

BARBIE OUTFIT colors: pink (A), white (B) hook: SIZE 2

TOP

Row 1

with A: ch 23, 6 dc in 3rd ch from hook (21st ch), ch 2, sl st to 21st ch, ch 20, FO.

Row 2

With B: back loops only, just for this row: join to first dc of row 1, ch 3, dc in same dc, 2 dc in next 5 dc, turn.12 dc

Row 3

ch3, dc in same dc, dc in next dc, (2 dc in next dc, dc in next dc) 5 times, turn. 18 dc

Round 4

ch3, dc in same dc, dc in next 2 dc, (2 dc in next dc, dc in next 2 dc) 5 times, ch 16 join w/sl st to top of ch 3. 24dc+16ch

Rd 5

ch3, dc in next dc, 2dctog, (dc in next 2 dc, 2dctog) 5 times, dc in next 16 sc, join w/sl st to top of ch 3. 34 dc

Rd 6 - 7

ch 3, dc in ea dc around, join w/sl st to top of ch 3. 34 dc

Rd 8

ch 3, dc in same dc, dc in next 4 dc, (2dc in next dc, dc in next 4 dc) 5 times, dc in next 4 dc, join w/sl st to top of ch 3, change to A. 40 dc

Edging

with A: ch 1, (sk 1 dc, 8 dc in next dc, sk 2 dc, sl st to next dc) 8 times, FO.

SKIRT

with B: ch 28

Row 1

dc in 4th ch from hook and in ea ch across, turn. 26 dc

Row 2

ch3, dc in same dc, dc in next dc, (2 dc in next dc, dc in next dc) 12 times, turn. 39 dc

Row 3

ch3, dc in next 3 dc, 2 dc in next dc (dc in next 4 dc, 2 dc in next dc) 6 times, dc in next 4 dc, turn. 46 dc

Row 4

ch 3, dc in ea dc across, turn. 46 dc

Round 5

overlap first 5 dc to last 5 dc, join with sl st, ch 3, dc in 5 overlaped dc of both sides (go through all four loops), dc in next 36 dc, join w/sl st to top of ch 3, turn. 41 dc

Rd 6

ch 3, dc in ea dc around, join w/sl st to top of ch 3, turn 41dc

Rd 7

ch 3, dc in ea dc around, join w/sl st to 1st dc, 40dc

Edging

same as with top.

To finish sew button at back of skirt.

If you use this pattern I'll like to know how it turned out, and if you find anything dificult to understand just ask...

Right now I'm working on a blender cover for my mother in law and I'm still working on the bed cover for my older son, I will show this project later on... Also, a coworker asked me if I could do a caracter from Invader Zim... I'll give it a try...