Bolero is a special item of clothing. They can be so diverse that they are worn with an evening dress, and with jeans, and with a club outfit. At the same time,
crocheting a bolero is not difficult at all. We can say that from adult clothes this is the simplest item suitable for beginner needlewomen.
If you want to carry out this plan, first decide what your bolero will be like. You can crochet it tight or openwork, with or without sleeves. Someone makes it one part, someone "collects" from independent elements.
How to crochet a bolero with one piece?
This method is good for the absence of seams on the finished product. Knitting begins with a chain of air loops of such a length that it freely wraps around the neck plus 10 cm. This will be the top of the bolero, then the knitting moves down. The point is, using different patterns, to expand the thing in a circle, first strongly (2 loops in every second loop of the previous row), and after the armholes for the hands are marked, already in the figure. The thing will turn out free, flying. In this style, “pineapple” motifs are good.
There is another embodiment of the whole bolero - a completely knitted circle, like a napkin, in the upper half of which slots for the hands are left. Although unfolded, such a model looks strange, it looks great on the figure. The smaller part turns into a wide turn-down collar, and the larger becomes the rest of the product.
How to crochet a bolero from elements?
There are two ways to do this. The first is to connect the same (or slightly different) parts and fasten them in an identical way, it is easiest to sew. The second is to perform various motifs (flowers and leaves, fish and bubbles, etc.) and connect them with specially tied cords or simply chains of air loops into a finished work. To make it beautiful and neat, you can cut a bolero pattern from colored paper in contrasting color (or at least from old wallpaper) . Elements must be laid out on it in the necessary order, attached with pins to the base, and then taken for the connection.
How to crochet a lace bolero?
If you like the originality of ribbon lace, then you can make bolero from it. To do this, the necessary amount of source material is created, and then, according to the pattern, it is sewn into the whole product. Lace can be let out both vertically and horizontally, it already depends on your preferences.
What else can you crochet a bolero with?
If you want something interesting and unusual, you can use for knitting not yarn, but less traditional materials. For example, there is a whole direction whose followers create from ordinary plastic bags. Craftswomen create from this packaging container not only small items, but also whole wedding dresses. Some are knitted from shreds of fabric, strips of fur and even from a film from audio cassettes. It would be a desire.
If a young fashionista grows up in a family, then her first bolero can be knitted for her. Firstly, children's things are created faster, secondly, less yarn is used on them, and thirdly, small flaws are not so noticeable on small products. In an extreme case, you can attach some decorative flower to the place where you strayed from the pattern. The laconicism that adult clothes need is not required for the outfits of the kids.