{"id":9327,"date":"2015-06-04T16:39:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T14:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tiinakasitoo.wordpress.com\/?page_id=821"},"modified":"2026-08-29T15:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T15:45:08","slug":"heegeldatud-suvekleidike-ja-muts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogi.tiinabutiik.ee\/en\/heegeldatud-suvekleidike-ja-muts\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterfly Dress and Flower Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

The dress is crocheted from Alize Forever crochet yarn (50 g = 300 m) using a 3 mm crochet hook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naturally the first job was a test swatch, though even with that I unravelled the work several times. I made the bodice first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once the armhole was the right size, I joined the sleeves into the round by crocheting a chain of 5 stitches between the joining points. I joined the back in the same way and then continued crocheting in the round.

I worked a few more rows in treble crochet, then made a drawstring row: 4 trebles, 2 chain stitches over the space of 2 stitches, then another 4 trebles. After that I worked two rounds of trebles and began crocheting the skirt. It is wise to calculate the number of stitches needed in advance so the pattern joins neatly. I did not, and mostly got away with it. I was two stitches short, but managed to sort that out nicely \ud83d\ude42
I talk about the post-stitch symbol here.<\/a> Now the stitch has to be worked around the post from the wrong side. I made the chain stitches between the post stitches tighter than the rest of the crochet; drawing them in slightly gives the pattern its effect. To make it a little brighter, I used two colours and introduced the second one with what I considered a smooth transition. Smooth in my opinion, at least.
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I finished the neckline, back opening and sleeve edges in crab stitch. I made three buttonholes at the back and buttons from yarn. I did consider taking the easy route and using ordinary buttons, and even found three pink ones, but in the end I stuck to my little obsession and made my own buttons<\/a>. As the yarn was quite fine, I wrapped it around an ordinary pencil thirty times and worked around the edges three times. They still stayed a little soft, but that was actually useful because the buttonholes came out a little small and the buttons can be bent to fit through them.
I crocheted a belt, making a chain by eye and working the return row in half trebles.
With the biggest job finished, I started the hat. I had known for ages what sort I wanted and had already found the pattern. For me the hardest part is finding the right number of stitches to get the correct size. It is always trial and error: make it and unravel it.
I aimed for a hat circumference of 46 cm and a depth of 15 cm. Finished, it measures 44 cm and 16.5 cm.
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\nI made the lower edge very simply: trebles into the dips, then finished it in crab stitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All that remained were the decorations. I decided to make a flower and a butterfly. Which would go on the dress and which on the hat I decided only after both were finished and I could arrange them and look. I liked the butterfly on the dress and the flower on the hat, so that is where they went.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made the butterfly like this and the flower following this tutorial
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The dress is crocheted from Alize Forever crochet yarn (50 g = 300 m) using a 3 mm crochet hook. Naturally the first job was a test swatch, though even with that I unravelled the work several times. I made the bodice first. Once the armhole was the right size, I joined the sleeves into\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tiina_en_title":"Butterfly Dress and Flower Hat","footnotes":""},"categories":[204,28,226],"tags":[222,365,227,249,282,366,367,364],"class_list":["post-9327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heegeldamine","category-lastele","category-riided-lastele","tag-heegeldatud","tag-kleit","tag-lastele","tag-muts","tag-pits","tag-polvikud","tag-puuvillane","tag-suvine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogi.tiinabutiik.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogi.tiinabutiik.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogi.tiinabutiik.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogi.tiinabutiik.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogi.tiinabutiik.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9327"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogi.tiinabutiik.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10873,"href":"https:\/\/blogi.tiinabutiik.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9327\/revisions\/10873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogi.tiinabutiik.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogi.tiinabutiik.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogi.tiinabutiik.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogi.tiinabutiik.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}