Lately...

... it's been a little quiet around here, hasn't it. There's something fairly epic going on at the home front, which has been all-consuming. Soon, I hope, I will have proper news and also get back into a normal routine. For now, I just thought I'd pop in and announce my latest pattern release. If you've been following me for a while and you squint hard at the picture below, you may recognise it!

Edit: The Bretonbone Top is now also available for individual purchase from my Ravelry store.

Crochet Now issue 6. Image courtesy of Practical Publishing

Yep, that stripey yellow and white tee in the little inset is none other than my Bretonbone Top. It was picked up by Crochet Now earlier in the year, when I was about halfway through designing it, and I can't tell you how excited I am about finally seeing it "live" in a magazine. 

It's a DK-weight top that suits lots of different fibres - cotton for summer, cotton+merino for autumn, alpaca for winter. I've made versions in the latter two, and they are both so very very wearable. If you look closely, you'll see that the stitch used isn't quite your standard Half Treble. It's in fact the Herringbone Half Treble, which has this interesting slanty thing going on. 

In terms of construction, you make the front and back panels, seam them together, then work the cap sleeves into the selvedge edges. I am a bit pleased with the cap sleeves, not least because they took AYGES to get right. Don't they look cute?

There's also a wee crab stitch edge at the bottom, which is now my favourite edging method ever and I want to put it on everything. 

The Bretonbone Top is in issue 6 of Crochet Now, which is on sale at newsagents in the UK from today (September 8). If you're elsewhere, you can also pick up a digital copy - just click on any of the digital media platforms listed on Crochet Now's Where To Buy page.

Edit: The Bretonbone Top is now also available for individual purchase from my Ravelry store.