Crochet lace for decorating your clothes

I was looking for ready made lace to decorate my tops and to loosen up some tight ones but not always I could find what I wanted, so I crocheted my own.

How to loosen tight clothes. Top plus size

I bought this top in 2 colours same size, but white one for some reason was tighter then the lime top and it looked awfull.
I decided to loosen it with lace inserts, but I couldn't find the right ones so I decided to crochet my own.
 

 

This is it. Topwith the lace inserts

How to loosen tight clothes. Combi shorts

What is your clothes became too tight or you can not find your size?  Is it always a problem or there's a way around it.... Let's see

This combi dress a bit too tight on the hips and neck is too closed and request was to make open shoulders

The neck is elastic and can be just moved lower, but then sleeves are too long and there's border pattern on the edge of the cleeve so it's gonna be lost if simply cott off so I decided to lower neck opening and shoulders.

  

 I've removed the stretchy neck first and marked how much lower I have to cut

 I've cut the neck and top of the sleeves lower to create open shoulders

 Then I 've crocheted 10 square motifs and 2 triangle ones and joined them together to form the inserts

like so....

Insert the motiffs into side seams like so...

 

This is final look of combishorts

 

This is final look of the corrected combi shorts

Lace dress plus size. How to make small big

Lace dress trending now, but how often we ccan find what we want in the shops?
Especcially if you are a plus size?
Honestly speaking I can not find anything decent in the shops. All those dresses are designed I think for skinny ones just scaled and that's why it looks horrible when you try it on, leave alone the comfort of wearing those dresses....
So I decided to make one.... on a budget....
as you know that lase fabric can be quite costly and not always to your liking, so I found nice lace dress size 8 and with little bit of magic turned it into size 26....  I know sounds unreal...
proof is here...

How did I make it?
If used any ready made garment first thing is to unravel all the seams and pressed all pieces flat to make ready for cutting.

I used lace for front, back and sleeves. I also used a ready made pattern but it can be buit for you whichever you prefer.

  Layed the fabric and cut accordingly

 Joined together lace and underlay fabric and serged the edges

 Front piece underlay fabric and lace surged together

 

Back half pice ready for surging

 2 halfs of back piece sewn together

 Side pieces (fron and back) joined together creating the arm opening

 Wing attached to the back side piece

 Two wings (front and back) joined at the shoulder seam

 finishing the shoulder seam

 Pressing the arm opening

 preparing bias finishing tape for the neck opening

 Sleeve cutting - part lace part fabric

 Sleeve

First I assembled the dress without sleeves.

 

 

Here we go, new lace dress