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So, May has arrived. It’s probably the most beautiful month of the year here where I live, but this year it’s exceptionally beautiful so far! Everything blooms, the air is fragrant even in the city. The sun is shining and the time is high to start drying laundry outside!!!
This was in fact the idea behind my fun bunting. Clothesline is a bunting in its core, isn’t it? But have you ever thought of it as a decoration? Ordinary decoration of our daily life, which means we have wind and sun to dry it, we have family to wash clothes for – we’re rich! Haha.
For the bunting I chose a pleated skirt, a summer dress, a T-shirt and trousers. Why don’t you make a simple rectangle and add it as a sheet? Be creative!
Give your party bunting a humorous, homely feel with set of clothes that captures the everyday joy of freshly dried laundry.
Supplies
-US G/6 (4mm) crochet hook
-Yarn: Drops Cotton Light (50% cotton, 50% polyester, 50g/1.8oz, 100m/109yds): small amounts of each: Off White (01), Apple Green (11), Dark Turquoise (14), Hot Pink (18), Light Fuchsia (23), Goldenrod (28).
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- Tapestry needle
- Scissors
- Optional: Mini wooden clothes pegs
Gauge
Tension is not critical.
Size
Clothesline measures approx. 100cm/39” across.
Dress: 18cm/7” long, T-shirt: 12cm/4.25” long, Trousers 11cm/4.25” long, Skirt: 12cm/4.75” long
Abbreviations (in US terms)
ch – chain
picot – ch3, sl st in first ch
rep – repeat
sc – single crochet
sc2tog – (insert hook in next st, yo and draw a loop trough) twice, yo and draw through all 3 loops on hook
sk – skip
sl st – slip stitch
st(s) – stitch(es)
tog – together
yo – yarn over
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Notes
Each garment motif is worked in rows. When changing color fasten off, leaving long tails to work the edging. Ch1 does not count as stitch throughout. Motifs are joined with a chain.
If you feel like you rather need a classic flag bunting, see my Union Jack free pattern and make as many as you wish, next join in garland! Pattern is HERE.
PATTERN
DRESS (make 2)
Using Goldenrod, ch15.
Row 1 Sc in 2nd ch from hook, sc into each st to end. Turn. (14 sts)
Row 2 Ch1, sc into each st to end. Turn. (14 sts)
Row 3 As Row 2.
Row 4 Ch1, sc2tog, sc in next 10 sts, sc2tog. Turn. (12 sts)
Row 5 Ch1, sc into each st to end. Turn. (12 sts)
Row 6 Ch1, sc2tog, sc in next 8 sts, sc2tog. Turn. (10 sts)
Rows 7-8 As Row 2.
Change to Hot Pink.
Rows 9-10 As Row 2.
Change to Goldenrod.
Row 11 Ch1, 2sc in next st, sc in each st to final st, 2sc in final st. Turn. (12 sts)
Rows 12-13 As Row 11. (16 sts)
Row 14 As Row 2. (16 sts)
Row 15 As Row 11. (18 sts)
Rows 16-26 As Row 2.
Row 27 Ch1, sc in next 3 sts, 1 picot, (sc in next 4 sts, 1 picot) 3 times, sc in next 3 sts.
Fasten off.
STRAPS
Join Goldenrod in first st across top.
Row 1 Ch1, sc in first 2 sts, turn, leaving remaining sts unworked. (2 sts)
Row 2 Ch1, sc in each st across. (2 sts)
Fasten off.
Skip 10 sts from top and join yarn in next st (2 sts from end), rep Rows 1-2 of Strap. Fasten off. Weave in ends.
Different color option: Rows 1-18 Off White, Rows 19-20 Wild Orchid, Rows 21-11 Off White, Rows 23-24 White Orchid, Rows 25-26 Off White, Row 27 Wild Orchid.
T-SHIRT (make 2)
Using Light Fuchsia, ch4.
Row 1 Sc in second ch from hook, sc into each st to end. Turn. (3 sts)
Row 2 Ch1, sc in next 2 sts, 2sc in next st. Turn. (4 sts)
Row 3 Ch1, sc into each st to end. Turn. (4 sts)
Row 4 Ch1, sc in next 3 sts, 2sc in next st, ch13. Turn. (5 sts)
Row 5 Sc in 2nd ch from hook, sc in 11 ch, sc in next 5 sts, ch2. Turn. (17 sts)
Row 6 Sc in 2nd ch from hook, sc into each st to end. Turn. (18 sts)
Rows 7-8 Ch1, sc into each st to end. Turn. (18 sts)
Row 9 Ch1, sc in next 16 sts, sc2tog. Turn. (17 sts)
Row 10 Ch1, sc2tog, sc in next 15 sts. Turn. (16 sts)
Row 11 Ch1, sc into each st to end. Turn. (16 sts)
Row 12 Ch1, 2sc in next st, sc in next 15 sts. Turn. (17 sts)
Row 13 Ch1, sc in 16 next sts, 2sc in next st. Turn. (18 sts)
Row 14-15 Ch1, sc into each st to end. Turn. (18 sts)
Row 16 Ch1, sk next st, sc in next 17 sts. Turn. (17 sts). Fasten off.
Row 17 Join yarn to 12th st from bottom, sc2tog, sc in next 4 sts. Turn. (5 sts)
Row 18 Ch1, sc in next 3 sts, sc2tog. Turn. (4 sts)
Row 19 Ch1, sc2tog, sc in next 2 sts. Turn. (3 sts)
Row 20 Ch1, sc into each st to end. (3 sts)
Fasten off. Weave in ends.
Different color option: Rows 1-3 Dark Turquoise, Rows 4-5 Off White, Rows 6-7 Dark Turquoise, Rows 8-9 Off White, Rows 10-11 Dark Turquoise, Rows 12-13 Off White, Rows 14-20 Dark Turquoise.
TROUSERS (make 2)
Using Dark Turquoise, ch13.
Row 1 Sc in 2nd ch from hook, sc into each st to end. Turn. (12 sts)
Row 2 Ch1, sc into each st to end. Turn. (12 sts)
Rows 3-4 As Row 2
Row 5 Ch1, 2 sc in next st, sc in next 10 sts, 2 sc in next st. Turn. (14 sts)
Row 6 Ch1, sc into each st to end. Turn. (14 sts)
Row 7 Ch1, sc in next 7 sts. Turn, leaving remaining sts unworked (7 sts)
Row 8 Ch1, sc into each st to end. Turn. (7 sts)
Row 9 Ch1, sc in next 5 sts, sc2tog. Turn. (6 sts)
Rows 10-19 Ch1, sc into each st to end. Turn. (6 sts)
Fasten off.
Join yarn in first unworked st from Row 6. Rep Rows 7-19.
Fasten off. Weave in ends.
Different color option: Rows 1-2 Goldenrod, Rows 3-17 Apple Green, Rows 18-19 Goldenrod.
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SKIRT (make 2)
Using Hot Pink, ch11.
Row 1 Sc in 2nd ch from hook, sc into each st to end. Turn. (10 sts)
Row 2 Ch1, sc into each st to end, ch16, turn.
Row 3 Sc in 2nd ch from hook, sc in next 15 sts. Sl st in first st of Row 2. Turn.
Row 4 Ch1, sc blo in next 15 sts. Turn.
Row 5 Ch1, sc blo in next 15 sts. Sl st in next unworked st of Row 2. Turn.
Rep Rows 5-6 until all sts from Row 2 have been worked into.
Fasten off. Weave in ends.
Different color option: Rows 1-2 Apple Green, Rows 3-22 Off White
TO FINISH
Join all pairs of garments together, working sc edging around all motifs, matching colors as you go. Use yarn tails where possible. Where edge is convex, work 2 sc in one st, where edge is concave, work sc2tog.
To make a clothesline: ch45, sc in apex of T-shirt, ch6, sc in next apex, ch15, sc in 2 sts of strap of dress, ch12, sc in 2 sts of next strap, ch12, sc in corner of skirt, ch10, sc in opposite corner, ch10, sc in corner of trousers, ch12, sc in next corner, ch45. Fasten off. Weave in ends.
Rep to make second strand, changing colors and/or the order of garments joined. Optionally, add mini wooden pegs for decoration.
Need more bunting ideas? See fun Map Bunting HERE.
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