What is a bolero and how to tie a bolero with a hook

Fashion designers recently very often offer a lady's half of humanity to include bolero in her wardrobe. What is it?

To begin with, this garment is borrowed from a male Spanish national costume, in which it was a short, not fastened sleeveless jacket. But, transformed by the design idea, the value of the bolero somewhat expanded. Clothes remained the same short (the length of it usually falls just below the chest), but it has sleeves of all possible length and width, the collars of any style, as well as ties or fasteners, as very simple - on the hook or button, and very Original, intricate and creative.

The material for the bolero is very diverse: cotton, knitwear, organza, fur, and it is also possible to tie the bolero with a crochet or knitting needles.

Bolero models are widely represented in collections of fashion houses Chanel, Gucci, Pollini and many others, and not for nothing, because these clothes, like no other, are capable of giving the female image elegance, nobility and completeness.

They wear bolero with tops, covering their bare shoulders, light sarafans, evening and cocktail dresses-bustier. This kind of clothes is ideal for summer office style, giving the necessary severity to the light side. A very important property bolero is that this part of the wardrobe can hide the small flaws of the figure.

If you have turtlenecks and cotton tops, we recommend that you make a bolero with a crochet - in an ensemble with jeans, leggings or a skirt and shoes, always with high heels, it will make the image inimitable and elegant.

Self- link bolero crochet quite to the forces even very beginning knitters, just should not pick up a very complex model. It will be very beautiful, like a bolero with a short sleeve crochet, and with a long one. If there is a question about the density of knitting, it will be more appropriate to look openwork crochet bolero than dense, but this is already the choice of who will wear it.

In the retail sale you can buy a lot of magazines for needlework, which offer on their pages schemes for crocheting bolero, with detailed descriptions and photos of finished works. All would be well, but very often these schemes and descriptions contain annoying misprints or important omissions, without which an inexperienced knitter firmly stuck in the middle of work and openwork crochet bolero jumps into a long box for many years, and the hunt for such experiments disappears forever.

To prevent this from happening, we strongly recommend that you review and disassemble the scheme with someone more experienced in knitting, and first obtain his subsequent help in the work that will be required. It is necessary to analyze each step of the knitting pattern from the very beginning of the work and to its completion, together with the master, and, only if everything is clear, start working.

For the first product, even if a bolero is planned with a short sleeve crochet, you should purchase threads no thinner than the suitable hooks number 2 or 3. At this thickness, the pattern knits quickly, conveniently, easily viewed and the product is not thick.

Another advice for beginners to boloroo turned out right, was not large or small, it follows from the paper, it is possible from an ordinary newspaper, to make his pattern. Usually, the product is knitted with one cloth - shelves, sleeves and back, and then sewed along the line of sleeves and sides. Centimeter tape measure your body volume in the chest area and divide in half, mark this value on paper. Next, up, measure the length of the product - this will be the bolero back, then in both directions make the marking of the desired length of the sleeves. Tape measure the thickness of your hand at the shoulder and add a few centimeters (this is to ensure that the product in the future does not sting under the armpits) and mark this value in the drawing. At you the drawing will already remind, something similar to the shirt laid out on a table, but only very short. The drawing is completed by the fact that the width and length of the shelves are laid on it, which are the same size as the first back. Now, when knitting, attach your product to the drawn drawing - they must match.

Linking your first bolero, believe me, you will experience an incomparable tide of pride and joy, and wearing will give such pleasure, as no expensive thing.