genesis of a bolero

First, the idea, then, the idea of the colour; green (obviously, in my case). I had some instructions to do the bolero, but due to the kind of yarn I found (banana fibre silk, produced in Nepal, bought at Persones Llanes) and due to the confusion caused by inches, numbers that could be chain stitches or inches, I decided to make the bolero following my intuition and the size of a cotton fabric bolero I have. I ran out of green yarn (ooh) when I finished making the sleeves (they had to be short)...then I continued with dark violet (Gacela, Alvelana S.L., 100% acrylic, colour 87).

And I liked the result...but I’ll have to wait for lower temperatures. I had never made any kind of jacket or so before...but scarves, several bags, some potholders, pencil cases, coin purses, unclassified stuff. I was not very confident about getting a nice result...but patience and willingness to improve one's skills did a lot. I didn't use complicated stitches, basically because it was not very easy to work with the green yarn. For the part in dark violet I chose some combination of stitches that creates some kind of star pattern. Result: snying.rje.po bolero! (at least I like it)

By the way..the quality of the last picture of me wearing the bolero is not very high...there are stains on the door, on me... :( on dark areas in the picture...