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


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[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!

[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.

[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?