HOW TO CROCHET A BIKINI BOTTOM, string bikini

HOW TO CROCHET A BIKINI BOTTOM, string bikini.

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This video almost didn't make it to youtube! I offer it with a few flaws.
After 4 days of recording with multiple bloopers, I became very frustrated with the process, and almost dismissed it. But I decided to post it in the result you see here, in case it would be of some help for someone.
I'm sorry, but here are some of the pitfalls I ran into:
1. Some segments did not record, which I only found out about at the end, therefore I had to re-crochet those sections. (This didn't always turn out as it should.)
2. Interruptions happened: telephone rang, doorbell rang, someone entered the room speaking not knowing I was taping, the cat made background noises, (not meowing, but noisy breathing, as he has asthma).
When I went outside to tape as I was trying to get better light, the crows cawed in my nearby tree, and just wouldn't give up! I knocked my camera over several times, as I tape with the camera between my body and my hands, with my arms straddling the camera, to capture the best view for you.
It's not easy being the designer, producer, narrator, editor, demonstrator, and director! But that is the price of being an independent person who wants to do it all (not only in the crafting part of my life, but in everything else as well!)
So I hope you will be kind and charitable in your assessment of this video, and realize that I did the best I could without having to, yet again, start from the beginning and crochet another full episode. That was simply not going to happen, due to the saturation point having been reached on the frustration scale!

At the moment, I am in a YOUTUBE PHASE, so these patterns are continuing to be posted for your free viewing pleasure! (No one can predict when I will tire of this "phase" in my creative life, and stop producing videos... in the meantime, I hope you enjoy watching!)

Have a lovely day everyone!! And please keep watching my videos!!

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WRITTEN PATTERN:
COPYRIGHT, M.E. Harrington
BIKINI BOTTOM: (One size fits most)
Worsted weight yarn, size 5mm crochet hook (US H 8)
1. Chain 43, (47 for large),
single crochet in the 2nd stitch from the hook, and in each stitch of the chain.
2. *Chain 1 and turn, single crochet across the row, repeat from * for 4 more rows. (Total of 6 rows.)
3. Skip a stitch at the beginning, and the end of each row, until you have decreased to 14 stitches.
(For size large, reduce to 16 stitches.)
4. * Chain 1 and turn, single crochet across the row, repeat from * for 8 rows.
5. Skip a stitch at the beginning and the end of each row, until you have decreased to 6 stitches.
6. * Chain 1 and turn, single crochet across the row, repeat from * for 6 more rows. (Total of 7.)

7. Begin to increase for the front:
Chain 1 and turn, make one stitch in the same stitch as the chain 1, single crochet across the row, make 2 single
crochet in the last stitch.
8. *Chain 1 and turn, single crochet across the row. Repeat from * for one more row.
9. Repeat step 7 and 8 for 3 more times. (Total of 12 rows.)

10. Chain 7, turn, single crochet in the 2nd stitch from the hook, and in each stitch of the chain up to the main body of
the work. Single crochet in each stitch across the row.
11. Repeat step 10. (Tabs formed on each side.)
12. Chain 1 and turn, single crochet across the row.
13. Chain 1 and turn, single crochet across the row, except when you reach the opposite tab, slip stitch to join.
(This is so one tab will not be wider than the opposite one.) Fasten off and weave all the yarn ends into the
finished work.

14. Attach 2 strands of yarn in the corner back of the work, single crochet in every 2nd stitch all around the outside
edge of the work. Slip stitch to join. Immediately chain a cord of 30 stitches long and fasten off.
Attach yarn at the other 3 corners, and chain a cord of 30 stitches. Weave all yarn ends into the finished work.
Tug on the single crochet border to settle the stitches.

**NOTE: If when finished, you would like your bikini bottom to be larger, simply add more rows of the band all around the outside edge.


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