The sleeves in progress.

This multicolor tunic is one of my first attempts at crocheting a sleeved garment. The springboard for this piece was the Japonais Tunic in “Sensual Crochet” by Amy Swenson.

It took quite a while getting this project finished because I couldn’t decide how much I should raise the collar and how low the neckline closing should be. Everything really depended on my own posture, which a little bit awkward. The sleeves also gave me a hard time because I made the increase/decrease of the stitches to shape the yoke in a rather random way. Only later did I realize that I should have stuck to a more rational and regular way of increasing and decreasing the stitches.

I also had a very hard time shaping the sleeves, starting from the wrists, I increased the stitches with an extra stitch at the start of each row, but somehow, I couldn’t decide exactly where over the previous row I should put the extra stitch… Nevertheless, what I ended up with is a collarless v-neckline tunic done almost entirely in the double-crochet eyelet pattern.

The finished tunic - with lots more to learn about crocheting sleeves.

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