♥︎ Crochet: Kohane Vest ♥︎

so i when i saw kohane's outfit for The First Concerto i Immediately fell in love with her vest. i love everything about it, specially the way the flower details look. i wanted one to wear myself so i thought i could try making it in crochet! this blog post is me talking about the process + some tips.

so first of all i needed a way to replicate the clothing pattern using crochet. looking closely i saw that it was much more detailed than what i thought, in fact it has three different layers. the first one has irregular shapes in various shades of purple. those would be very hard to recreate, so i decided to regularize the pattern into a checkered one (also limiting the colors to only two shades). the second layer has a very intrincate pattern of blue vines, honestly the only way of replicating it that i can think of is embroidery, but it would be such an amount of work, and also im,, not good at it, so i decided to just skip this layer (its barely visible anyways). the last layer is just the yellow flowers, and thankfully those are easy to crochet.

i bought cotton yarn, im not sure of the weight but id say its a 3. i got 150gr of each color. i decided to work with half-double crochet, with a 2.5mm hook. after some try and error, i found the way of making perfectly sized squares, which is 7 stitches x 5 rows (the squares are 5cm aprox). i used a tank top i own to calculate how i should position the squares to cover my body the way i wanted it. so i divided the vest into 3 panels: two for the front (since it has buttons) and one bigger for the back. i just worked everything with rows of hdc, color switching every 7 stitches to make the check pattern.

how i made some things:
diagonal cut squares: these took some trial and error to make but ended up being something like this: right at the end of a row, do a decrease; for the new row, only chain one and then skip the first stitch.
the flowers: 6sc in a magic circle, in the first one do 3+1 chains and a row of 1sc, 1hdc, 1dc, then slip stitch into the next sc. do that in each initial sc to make 6 petals. (you can always modify the number of petals as well as their lenght/thickness)

for the details:
i thankfully found 5 buttons that looked the similar to the original ones. (theyre even prettier id say :>) i sewed them by attaching them to hdcs.
for the flowers, i could only find two balls of yarn, but they were neither thick enough nor the exact color. but i tried using them together, and that way the colors looked right and the flowers had a good size. to make the smaller flowers i used those yarns individually and a 1mm hook.

So Yeah that was pretty much it !! i Am aware that it doesnt look That similar to her vest, but i like it more this way, and also its more about taking inspiration than making an exact copy. anywayss, it did take some time to make but i enjoyed the process and im so soo happy with the final result :3