erykah badu's dress

[plutofigaro]

Hi,

In the October 13, 2003 issuew of jet she is wearing a crocheted dress and I was wondering if anybody knew where I could find the pattern or the designer.

thanks

nelson

[Ambersafghans]

I'm sorry, but I don't know who or where you are talking about. Any possibilities of a picture?
Anyway, welcome to Crochetville!:wave
Amber

[Tiffany]

I'm doing a little search around to see if I can help you out. My best advice is to do a little search on ebay. It's very possible that others were taken with the dress and have created a pattern similar. OR, if you have a digital camera or scanner, post a copy of the dress and someone might have seen it.

[Donna]

Hi! I googled this and wasn't able to find anything. A pic would be helpful as I do not have that magazine. Please post or link to a pic if you can. :)

[plutofigaro]

hi,

I hope you guys can help.

thanks

nelson


<a href="http://www.soultrain.com/losa9show/06_erykahaccept.html" target="_new">erykah badu</a><a href="http://www.soultrain.com/losa9show/05_erykahperf2.html" target="_new">erykahperf2</a><a href="http://www.soultrain.com/losa9show/04_erykahperf1.html" target="_new">erykahperf1</a>

[Julie]

Wow, that's incredible! It looks to me like a rather long chevron tank top. I'm not up on my crochet wearables though, but I'm sure someone can help you find something similar. It is beautiful, thanks so much for posting a link to the picture! :bounce

[MommaChelle]

WOW what a dress! I bet you could easily make one...it looks like the front and back were worked seperately and stitched together along the sides (notice the yellow stitching on her side). If you work top to bottom, increasing a stitch on each end as you go, making it as long as you need it...or going from the bottom up, decreasing as you go, then doing the v neck and straps.

Maybe if you draw the pattern on paper, with the size you need, and your stitch gauge, you could probably make a pattern or have someone else who is excellent at patterns make one up. It does look like the chevron (or ripple stitch) with only one ripple.

[Donna]

Wow, that's a great dress! I think it would be simple to make. Yes, it does look like a chevron or ripple pattern with just one ripple. But there is more to it because with a ripple, there normally would be a hole at the point of the ripple but in the third photo you can clearly see that it's actually thicker down the middle. Hmmm...

I have never seen a pattern like that, but someone could certainly design one.

It reminds me a lot of this knit tank (http://mason204.journalspace.com/?m=5&d=5&y=2004).

[crochetme]

I recently knit a poncho that resulted in the "v" shape we see in this dress. It was due to the increases I made at the front and back of it. (Essentially, I knitted a triangle, in the round. I wear the triangle with the points in front and back.) Of course, it doesn't really seem that this dress has points in front and back... Hmmm.

[Julie]

It reminds me a lot of this knit tank.

It reminded me of that one too. I wonder how adaptable the pattern would be?

[plutofigaro]

hi,

Yeah, the site gives you different views. The pic in the Jet mag. is closer and its look more like a filet pattern. Its got the dc ch1 skip 1 dc pattern in the pic it looks like a cluster stitch in the middle. But I don't know where the inc or dec happens?
My knit group is going to try and help too, so maybe between all of us we can figure it out.

thank

nelson

[crochetguy]

WOW!!

That reminds me of something I did 30 yrs ago.

How do you post pics?

Ken

<img border=0 src="http://pages.ivillage.com/kenjones5" />

[Julie]

Ken, a good number of us use <a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_new">photobucket.com</a> to host our pictures. I don't think Picturetrail allows hotlinking. If you do decide to get a photobucket account, they are great because if you aren't too familiar with HTML, they give you the codes to insert without having to study first. If you have the pictures already in your Picturetrail album, you could tell us which album a particular picture is in and provide the link you gave in your introduction post. <img border=0 src="http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v84/crochetville/rocking.gif" />

[plutofigaro]

hi,

Do you still have the pattern. I've been giving one pattern by a very nice lady for this list, but can use all the help I can get. I have some idea how to start for that pattern, but would love to see yours.

nelson

[leaderladyk]

Did you find a pattern for this dress? I love it and I want to make it too!

[plutofigaro]

hi,

No, I'm making it up on my own. :bang When I finish I'll be sure to post it. Wish me luck.

nelson

[Donna]

Good luck, nelson! :thumbsup I know it will be beautiful! :cheer Can't wait to see it!

[leaderladyk]

I can't wait to see it. It doesn't look to difficult but I am new at crocheting so fcreating my own pattern is a little to daunting for me. I would love to see your pattern when you are done. Good Luck!!! :cheer

[plutofigaro]

hi,

Well, I'm almost to the waist and so far so good. I thought I could start at the top, but that didn't work so I started at the bottom. Trying to figure out when to do the cluster was a treat, but I'm cooking with steam now :clap and will hopefully be finish by the end of the month. Oh, I'm working on the front, so once that's done the back should be easier.

nelson

[rebeccav]

i can't wait to see a picture! i think it is so amazing that you can do something without a pattern!!!

[Julie]

Please show us a picture or two when you are done! <img border=0 src="http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v84/crochetville/cheerleader.gif" />

[MommaChelle]

Wow! That sounds great! Cant wait to see a picture when you've finished :clap

[plutofigaro]

:cheer

Yes, ya'll I am done. Well, almost I'm putting and edgeing(sp) around the dress to make the seams strong and that way I can use one color when putting it together. I have to wash it and measure her one more time for the straps, but the hard part is done. :clap

[rebeccav]

ooooh pictures :camera pictures :camera pictures :camera
:cheer

[Donna]

:woohoo Nelson, that is fab! :cheer

[Julie]

Wow! I hope you can get us a picture of it! Congratulations!! <img border=0 src="http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v84/crochetville/woohoo2.gif" />

[plutofigaro]

Hi,

How do I get my pictures from the disk to this repley box.

nelson

[plutofigaro]

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[rebeccav]

here's a tutorial (http://p084.ezboard.com/fcrochetvillefrm47.showMessage?topicID=7.topic) for you on how to post pictures :bigsmile

(thanks for finding the link, rachel:wink )

[RachelG]

No problem whatsoever! 8)

Rachel
www.crochetpatterncentral.com (http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com)

[plutofigaro]

Hi,

I hope this works. Tell me what you think.

nelson


photos.groups.yahoo.com/g...t&.hires=t (http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/monkeyknits/vwp?.dir=/nelson&.dnm=badu+dress.jpg&.src=gr&.view=t&.hires=t)



badudress2 (http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/monkeyknits/vwp?.dir=/nelson&.dnm=badu+dress2.jpg&.src=gr&.done=http%3a//photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/monkeyknits/vwp%3f.dir=/nelson%26.dnm=badu%2bdress.jpg%26.src=gr)

[MommaChelle]

The link did not work for me. I think for photo albums in yahoo groups, you have to be a member of the group to view the photo album.

[Deb]

<img border=0 src="http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v84/crochetville/photos.gif" /> Maybe you could upload your pictures into www.photobucket.com ?

That seems to work for most of the gals here (myself included <img border=0 src="http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/happy.gif" /> ).

I'd really LOVE to see this dress. <img border=0 src="http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v84/crochetville/veryhappy.gif" />

[Donna]

Nelson, if you e-mail the pics to me, I will post them. :thumbsup

e-mail: donna at yarntomato dot com

[Donna]

Here is the dress Nelson made! :woohoo Nelson will try to get a photo of someone wearing it soon.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v138/dbelle/crochet/misc/badu_dress_th.jpg
click for larger image (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v138/dbelle/crochet/misc/badu_dress.jpg)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v138/dbelle/crochet/misc/badu_dress_close_th.jpg
click for larger image (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v138/dbelle/crochet/misc/badu_dress_close.jpg)

[bythehook]

It's very pretty, Nelson, and well worth the wait for the pictures. Good job! <img border=0 src="http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v84/crochetville/cheerleader.gif" />

[Julie]

Nelson, that's gorgeous!! Fabulous colors, I can imagine how proud you are of it. It's beautiful! <img border=0 src="http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v84/crochetville/clap.gif" />

[crochetgrl]

Great job! i can't wait to see it on someone!:clap

[rebeccav]

VERY COOL!!!!

[antara]

Oh, my goodness! That is gorgeous! :wow

[MommaChelle]

Great dress! You did a great job on that! :cheer

[Tiffany]

Beautiful!!! :) You did a wonderful job, Nelson!!! :clap

[clearwaters]

Very kewl.

[plutofigaro]

Hi,

Thank you all very much and thinks for all the well wishes.
I'm pretty proud. I've never made anything without a pattern, so this was something new. I'm making another for someone who so saw the green, red, and yellow one. She wants her to be in Reds.

nelson