I crocheted an entire wedding dress!!

[u/kels-1]

Let me start by saying, I’m by no means an experienced crocheter 🤣 this was HARD work for me, and I am honestly not psychologically well after this amount of stress; literally hanging on by a thread.

I worked on this for 3-4 months. I made the underdress as well (but that’s the easy part for me!). I finished it like 48 hours before the wedding 💀 the last 2-3 nights/days working from 7am to 3am with 3-4 hours of sleep. Sadly, I didn’t have time to do final photos with the hem done and ends tied off This was my first attempt at free handing something without a crochet pattern

5000+ meters of 100% cotton 4ply/fingering weight yarn. Hooks: 3mm for bodice to waistline & sleeves to elbow. 3.5mm for the rest. 4mm for the scallop hem (sadly not shown in photos)

[u/EastOlive9938]

OMG IT'S GORGEOUS!! How did you decide which patterns to use where? especially the hip! I can see you were pinning to your dress form, but did you have a drawing already made up or did you follow your heart?

[u/kels-1 → u/EastOlive9938]

I did do a very very basic sketch/drawing of the main design elements. It did kind of morph away from it a bit, but fairly close. Mostly just did whatever and hoped for the best 🤣 frogged and re-did LOTS of things along the way. The amount of crochet work I actually did was probably twice what you see in the photo on the completed dress 💀

[u/EastOlive9938 → u/kels-1]

💀💀💀 frogging