This is why there have been no crochet posts for a while...

[purplecat]

B. was sufficiently impressed by my crocodile stitch shawl that he asked for a crocodile stitch jumper. I have a horrible feeling this has strayed into "hideous socks so kindly meant" territory but B. claims to be pleased with it. More alarmingly he claims to have a carefully cultivated reputation for eccentric knitwear which suggests he intends to wear it in public.





It wasn't meant to be this large. It growed and growed and I kept having to buy more yarn.

Also, no pattern this time around, too much "making it up as I go along" was happening.

Comments

[alatefeline]

Wow. I don't understand fashion, at all. But that is a very very impressive and colorful piece of crochet work. Are the scale shapes on the body different from the round shapes on the arms, or do they just look different?

[purplecat]

I'm not sure, based on this, I would claim to have much expertise in the fashion stakes :)

The arms and lower to thirds of the body are using a kind of stitch called clusters which creates the sort of interlocking circles pattern, round the neck I used crocodile stitch which creates a scaled effect.

[alatefeline]

Thanks for telling me!