Fashion designers recently very often offer the ladies half of humanity to include boleros in their wardrobe. What is it?
To begin with, this clothing was borrowed from the men's Spanish national costume, in which it was a short, non-fastening sleeveless jacket. But, transformed by designer's thought, the meaning of the bolero expanded somewhat. The clothes remained as short (their length, as a rule, falls slightly below the chest), but sleeves of every possible length and width appeared, collars of any style, as well as ties or fasteners, both very simple - on a hook or button, and very original, intricate and creative.
The material for sewing boleros is very diverse: cotton, knitwear, organza, fur, and you can also crochet or knit boleros .
Bolero models are widely represented in the collections of fashion houses Chanel, Gucci, Pollini and many others, and for good reason, because these clothes, like no other, can give the female image elegance, nobility and completeness.
They wear boleros with tops, covering their bare shoulders, light sundresses, evening and cocktail bustier dresses. This type of clothing is ideally suited to the summer office style, giving the necessary rigor to a light outfit. A very important property of the bolero is that this part of the wardrobe is able to hide the minor imperfections of the figure.
If you have turtlenecks and cotton tops, we recommend that you make a crocheted bolero in a set for them - in an ensemble with jeans, leggings or a skirt and shoes, certainly with high heels, it will make the look inimitable and elegant.
Even very beginning knitters can afford to crochet a bolero on their own, just not a very complicated model should be chosen. It will be very beautiful, as a bolero with a short sleeve and a long sleeve. If the question arises about the density of knitting, then openwork crochet of a bolero will be more appropriate than dense, but this is already the choice of who will wear it.
In retail, you can buy many magazines for needlework, offering on their pages patterns for crocheting a bolero, with detailed descriptions and photos of finished works. Everything would be fine, but very often these patterns and descriptions contain annoying typos or important omissions, without which an inexperienced knitter is firmly stuck in the middle of work and openwork crocheting a bolero throws itself into a long box for many years, and the desire for such experiments disappears forever.
To avoid this, we strongly recommend that you consider and disassemble the scheme with someone more experienced in knitting, and first enlist his subsequent help in the work that you will definitely need. It is necessary, together with the master, to analyze each step of the knitting pattern from the very beginning of the work to its completion, and only if everything is clear, start working.
For the first product, even if you plan to crochet a bolero with a short sleeve, you should purchase threads no thinner than those suitable for hooks number 2 or 3. At this thickness, the pattern knits quickly, conveniently, can be easily seen and the product is not thick.
One more piece of advice for beginners is to make the bolero fit just fine, not big or small, it follows from paper, you can make a pattern from a regular newspaper. Usually, the product is knitted with one fabric - shelves, sleeves and back, and then sewn along the line of the sleeves and sides. With a measuring tape, measure your body volume in the chest area and divide in half, mark this value on paper. Next, up, measure the length of the product - this will be the back of the bolero, then mark the desired length of the sleeves on both sides. With a tape, measure the thickness of your arm near the shoulder itself and add a few centimeters (this is necessary so that the product does not sting underarms later) and mark this value on the drawing. Your drawing will already remind you, something similar to a shirt spread out on a table, but only very short. The drawing ends with the fact that the width and length of the shelves, which are similar in size to the back drawn at the beginning, are laid off on it. Now, when knitting, apply your product to the drawn drawing - they must match.
Having connected your first bolero, believe me, you will experience an incomparable surge of pride and joy, and wearing will bring such pleasure as no expensive thing.