Chevron with increases

[Cuddlefish]

I'd like to try to make a skirt in a chevron pattern that increases toward the bottom. I can't seem to find anything. Do you have any idea how to do it? I just don't know how to make the increases in a tidy way. And I'd prefer making it in rounds rather than front and back separate...

[crochet smartcat]

I don't know if this will work, but think it should. If you add a stitch to every one or every other peak, and leave your decreases (valleys) the same it should do a nice increase.

I would probably try every other one and then on the next row, alternate your increases, so you would do the increases over 2 rows, work several rows maintaining stitch count, 2 more increase rows, 2-4 rows same stitch count, repeating.

I'm not sure how big of a flair you want at the bottom or how quickly you want to make it though, so you may have to play around with it abit. I would not add any more than one stitch per peak though, as more would make it "bubble".

Another idea would be to add one stitch on either side of the peak. This would increase the number of stitches that you work between the peaks. Again I would alternate peaks over 2 rows unless you are looking for almost a ruffle effect.

[mudpie]

Is the purpose of the increase to make a sort of swirl or ruffle? If so, depending on the particular pattern you are using, increasing should be fairly easy. You could do the increases like they are done on the round ripple. At the point of the chevron you could add an extra stitch, ch 1 extra stitch. You could do that on several successive rounds, or every second or third round.

[Cuddlefish]

The thing is, I saw a crocheted skirt in a window a few months back. It looked like a chevron, and it increased toward the bottom, but each 'chevron-row' didn't get wider as it went down. So it must have had a way of adding new rows instead of just widening each row. That's the look I'd like.

I could be wrong, and maybe it was not really a chevron, I'm trying to pick my memory to see it properly.

Thanks for your suggestions, I'll try some things out and see what works.

[natalie058]

So it increased sort of like the Seraphina shawl? Could you incorporate that idea into a chevron pattern?

[Cuddlefish]

I've never done a seraphina, so I don't know the pattern. Hmm. I'll keep looking around to see if I find something that looks similar.

[Aggie May]

I have a Chevron Skirt pattern. It is a girl's size but by using a thicker yarn and larger hook, it should come out bigger.
The other ladies are right though, it is just the same as doing the Round Ripple but instead of starting off with 4 CH joined into a ring, you would start off with a longer CH, to fit over your hips and start increasing just as in the Round Ripple. Make a band with elastic to fit your waist after you finish or just sew some elastic to the top as you would for a fabric skirt.
If you wanted it very full, you would increase every round but if you wanted it less full, you would increase every 2, 3 or 4 rounds.
If you want, I will find my pattern and see how close we have got to the right formula.
Have fun.
Colleen

[Cuddlefish]

If you have to go through a whole pile of books to find it, you don't have to, but if it's not too much trouble I would love to know. Thanks.