For my 11-12-13 wedding.

totally revamping pattern

Size 10.5 needle increased size like whoah, and this is going to be way longer than it should be following pattern; I’m skipping last sets of increases for 2400 sts. total. This is fine though, it gives me more time to bead and knit the top I want to match it with!

It’s been a while, and I plugged away at it most of July and August. I’ve gotten a beautiful trellis pattern going with the glass and swarovski beads, on the lower part of the dress. Thinking up beaded trims to end the dress with. Cast on for the top, and I’m 1/4 done with it.

Picture 1: Fav pic of dress and bouquet from photographer.

Picture 2 & 3: Finished skirt!

Picture 4-6: trying to show off the bead design.

Picture 7: you can kind of see the bead pattern starting to form.

Picture 8: Front view sans flash & Picture 9: BLURRY (sorry) side-view with flash. 2-23-13

Picture 10: 2-10-13 Waist was way too big, picking up sts on top, 150 sts. k2 rounds. *K2 tog, k3* 120 sts. k5 rounds.

Picture 11: Skirt so far 1-27-13, finished third set of increases; 1,200 stitches total so far. I’ve had some errors, ones that I can’t see, and when I increased to 600 sts, I had 6 sts left-over -- easy to fix, K2tog every 100 sts. This time, I was missing 1 st. Getting better, but I don’t know where they went; I didn’t drop any. I sure hope none of my errors are visible, but I have hope.

Picture 12: Skirt so far 1-20-13, bag 1 of 3; the 2 other bags are at Yarniverse

Picture 13: Samples sent for yarn ideas

Here is the link for the top

Bead details:

This chart, with Champagne, silver-lined beads, except for the two beads on row 1 & 13, which will have Swarovski

Balls used so far: 17