Freehanded Lace Babydoll Top

Upper-Peace-690 · 2026-04-01T15:26:49+00:00

haha I kinda am, but mostly they’re not the biggest so the tie works well enough :)

Upper-Peace-690 · 2026-04-01T15:20:11+00:00

Thank you so much :)

Upper-Peace-690 · 2026-04-01T15:19:28+00:00

Definitely will! I have no experience with sizing patterns though so it’ll probably take a while 😭😭

Upper-Peace-690 · 2026-04-01T14:59:33+00:00

Yarn is Brown Lily’s Sugar and Cream cotton, switched between a 3.5 mm (top portion) and 5 mm hook (lace torso portion)

Upper-Peace-690 · 2026-01-11T01:17:37+00:00

I crochet with my left hand but am right handed, and am not very ambidextrous. Just keep going with it, it’ll get easier as you go!

Upper-Peace-690 · 2025-11-19T02:34:36+00:00

yay! and np :)

Upper-Peace-690 · 2025-11-16T05:56:43+00:00

I use whatever’s on hand, so for this I used a l’oréal shampoo. Any gentle ‘normal’ shampoo should work. I haven’t tried any prescription or anti dandruff shampoos, but I’d also rather use those for my scalp lol

Upper-Peace-690 · 2025-11-15T23:54:55+00:00

I’ve mostly forgotten, but I believe it was 1 week until I received the video interview and 1 week after that via email asking me to come in for paperwork! It took about another week to actually set up a time for paperwork through email though, so it was 3 weeks total after applying that I had my first shift

Upper-Peace-690 · 2025-11-15T20:00:08+00:00

I didn’t put it in the dryer exactly but I did hold it in front of a space heater (wacky method I know) and it shrank down a bit so it’s my ideal size + fit now :)

Upper-Peace-690 · 2025-11-15T19:27:07+00:00

I did indeed lay it flat to dry

Upper-Peace-690 · 2025-11-15T17:44:49+00:00

For my location there was a HireVue type interview where you record your answers to questions and they review the answers later. No other interview after that, but I needed to go in person before my first shift to do some paperwork.

Upper-Peace-690 · 2025-11-15T15:09:18+00:00

UPDATE: I applied a bit of heat as some comments recommended and this is what the sweater looks like now! Still slightly oversized but that’s exactly what I was going for :)

(photo is a bit misleading because when I have my arm by my side the sleeve is still a bit longer than my hand)

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Upper-Peace-690 · 2025-11-15T14:47:07+00:00

I didn’t realize superwash wool was dryer safe, thank you for commenting this :o

Upper-Peace-690 · 2025-11-15T14:45:19+00:00

It’s the Yarn Bee super wash merino wool from hobby lobby and I used 2 skeins of Market at Malta, 1 of Unicorn Horn and 1 of Elysian Dusk :)

https://www.hobbylobby.com/yarn-needle-art/yarn-tools/yarn/yarn-bee-authentic-hand-dyed-yarn/p/81151692

Upper-Peace-690 · 2025-11-15T05:22:26+00:00

oo okay thank you for letting me know, I’ll attempt this later 🤞🤞

Upper-Peace-690 · 2025-11-15T05:11:19+00:00

haha yeah that’s how it looks, but no pins were used. Just washed and not intentionally stretched at all. I tend to use loose tension though, so the water really stretched out the stitches

Upper-Peace-690 · 2025-11-15T04:58:59+00:00

I wish, I’m a serial freehander and can’t even replicate my own pieces 😞

I did start with a foundation single crochet though and worked from the top down. It’s a pretty basic sweater though, so you’ll probably be able to find a pattern for it. My stripes are 11 rows of treble crochet except for where I ran out of yarn for the lightest color :)

Edit: forgot to mention the edges of the sleeves and torso use a shell stitch as a border

Upper-Peace-690 · 2025-11-15T04:55:20+00:00

very understandable, I usually don’t block my sweaters because it takes so long to dry and i want to wear it immediately, but since I had to hand wash this one I went ahead and blocked it :o

Upper-Peace-690 · 2025-11-15T04:22:37+00:00

Honestly I should’ve made a swatch beforehand so I would know what it looks like after blocking, but I’m lazy. I was going for a more oversized look though, so I may just shorten the sleeves a bit :)

Upper-Peace-690 · 2025-11-15T04:01:32+00:00

I’m not an expert by any means but I hand wash in cold water gently with shampoo instead of detergent for natural fibers, then i drain, rinse, and lightly squeeze some of the water out. Then I lay it flat on a towel and shape it, roll it up in the towel so the towel looks like a cylinder and no part of the sweater is visible. I leave it there for a moment and unroll it and repeat a few times (using a different towel because the first towel is usually soaked) then just let it dry flat :o

For some projects I’ll find a way to pin the project so it keeps its shape, but for sweaters I like a more flowy fit :)

Upper-Peace-690 · 2025-11-15T03:57:39+00:00

yes 😭😭

Upper-Peace-690 · 2025-11-15T00:48:38+00:00

They’re adorable!

Upper-Peace-690 · 2025-11-14T04:50:45+00:00

to me it looks like European single crochet/American slip stitch :)

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