Crochet top for night outing!

After my first son enrolled in secondary school, finally had some extra space and time to think about myself.
Thinking "Hey, what about me? " and realized I had not gone out much lately, no night outing with my husband and etc.

I could't just decay at home and growing mushrooms on myself!?
So first thing I did was to look for a decent gear to go out, you know, something fancy.

Sadly, I couldn't find any. Most of the shops sold shirts with stretchy same-as-T-shirt material and I wear them everyday at home. No, I didn't want those.

I went back home and checked what I had and 2 of crochet tank tops caught my eyes.
White one and light beige one.
Those were from my mother, a hand me down, and they were store bought ones, but crochet is crochet.
It all made by 1 long yawn and they looked shiny, maybe silk.

So I said to myself, "I can undone them and re-crochet them into what I want!"
I undone both of them.

This was last year, before I joined steemit. Unfortunately, I have no photos during my process, but I can share where I got the patterns.

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Yah, now I look at it from my laptop screen, it looks clear enough. When I looked from my handphone, I couldn't zoom into it, hahaha.

From this pattern, the bust I guessed and gained pretty much good idea how to do, but the inner 3 pineapples were unreadable from my handphone that time, so I found another pattern and combined the two.

After I done the upper torso, then I look at it, it was super short.
"I can't show my belly button around?!" Now the next issue.

So I found another pattern....for that...
Yes, I know, I'm borrowing this and that from many people's pattern, quite chaotic..
Anyway, luckily they are all free patterns.

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I complied just the lower part.

Then...Just 1 of it only covered ribs, too short to cover up my belly so... I thought of making more longe.
And then... I became greedy.

I thought "I could make them in to layers?" and "maybe color changes to make it look more fun".

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So total of 5 layers as you could see.
How I did it? With time and sweat!!

First layer is pure light beige yawn.
5th layer is pure white yawn.

For 2nd layer to 4th layers, I unwinded the each yawn.
That created smaller gage yawns. I combined pure and smaller gage yawns to make each layers a tone.

Took a bit of time, but I was in no hurry, I enjoyed it mostly at night doing this project.

And I am no professional and skilled, I had no idea how to attach those layers, so I simply sewed them.
I'm sorry, I cheated. I will do it better next time!

Front side

Backside.
I put yellow plastic sheet to make it easier for you to see.
And sewed my bras so no need to worry about....well... anything, hahaha.
Obviously, it is like an apron!

I only wear this going out at night with my husband. Cheers!!

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The crochet work and photos are done by me, @naomipangolin.
If no source written, it means that image is the original photo taken by me and first time to use it online.