Tall Latte and Haru from Doris Chan "Everyday Crochet"

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teresa@106 wrote
on Mar 24, 2008 9:43 AM
Anybody working on Tall Latte or patterns based on it such as Haru? Chime in! I started Haru as an open-front vest then decided to get more yarn and put on sleeves! Here's 7 skeins' worth.

Haru work in progress

While I wait for more "Tonalita" yarn, I started a summerweight version of the same sweater in "Nostalgia" (cotton/acrylic/nylon) yarn. The first 5 rows are the same for Tall Latte, Haru and others (4 and a bit shown here):

Another Haru?


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PaulineL wrote
on Mar 24, 2008 12:21 PM

Bright colors, especially bright after coming from hand-dyer sarahcrit's post. I love both earth-tone and vivid color schemes.


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teresa@106 wrote
on Mar 24, 2008 8:53 PM

Oh wow, no kiddin'! That Boteh scarf is just beautiful. The color changes in my "Haru" are ... amazing, to say the least. This yarn is making me put colors side-by-side that I would NEVER choose, but I am fascinated to see what's going to happen next! There is not a single color repeat so far (at least, that I can find) in 3 skeins (100 yards each) of this yarn! (Tonalita by Trendsetter.)


I have set aside 3 skeins that APPEAR to have the same color sequence on the outside of the ball, so I can try to get the sleeves to match one another but it is probably hopeless.


Yes ... I am hoping to have enough yarn (I ordered some more from my LYS) to put sleeves on my "Haru vest" and make it a Haru sweater, though with long sleeves not short the way DC has it in the book. Way too much fun!


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teresa@106 wrote
on Mar 28, 2008 6:21 PM

Update: I posted a new picture! and while I await more yarn for sleeves on the first one (is it gaudy, or what?!) I started a new one in cotton/acrylic/nylon for a summer-weight sweater. I think the explanation is that I need ALL those wild colors in the first one, because it has been such a gray March, but I believe summer will come so I'm making the blue one too! Also now that I am crocheting again my fingers start to twitch without some yarn and a hook in my hands....


Having read Doris Chan's fitting article in the current Interweave Crochet I am making the blue sweater a size smaller and I'm going to try her fitting technique with short rows for the "wedge." When did I get a wedge?!? I never used to need extra space "up top"! but I'd like to have the sweater fit better across my shoulders/collarbones without being overall too small. So we'll see how this works....!


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