Crocheting A Corset Top | Stepping Out Of My Comfort Zone As A Crocheter

Hello everyone, I’m here to share with you all this corset top I made for myself. About some weeks ago, I got invited to hangout and the theme was wear you so I made a top that described my personality. I got invited again and this time, the theme was “out of comfort zone”. The moment I saw that theme, I knew I had to make a corset top.

I’ve never owned a corset top and all my 14 years of crocheting, I’ve never made one. I’ve just been so scared to do it thinking it might not come out nice or as I want. I’ve been postponing the making of a corset top since 2020 and finally I decided to just go out of my comfort zone and make this top. Thankfully, @doreenarch inspired me with some of her works. I wanted a simple yet artistic top so I designed the top myself.

The difficult part of the top was joining the bra cups together. I have made over 100+ bralettes but this particular one was different. I had to undo my work more than 7 times. I spent about 2 weeks on this top because for the first time in my crochet life, I was scared to make mistakes and oh, I made plenty of them.
I used about 5 balls of yarns and a 1.60mm crochet hook.

I started with the bra cups. I made the bottom part of the cup with 4 single crochets and then increased to the middle part and then reduced back to 4 single crochet. I made sure that base was my size.

I moved on to the upper part of the cup. I made single crochet on top of the base of the cup till I had a full cup. I repeated the same for the other bra cup.

I moved to the complicated part which was joining the cups together. I had to redo it 7 times as I said before getting the right thing. I started with a slip stitch and then moved from one end to another, slip stitching into the bra cups with single crochet in between.

I finally made the sides of the top which I call the wings and the main body of the top. Ideally, I should have used single crochet but according the design and pattern I made for myself, I used half double crochet for the body of the top. I crocheted from side to side and the slip stitched to the other sides of the bra cup. The length of the top was 8 inches when I was done.

I then made the lace holes at the back of the top by skipping 2 stitches and making 5 single crochets to make 7 holes at each side. I chained enough length to serve as the lace.

To make the ruffle design, I measured from one bralette to the back of the top and chain that measurement. Mine was about 19 inches, yours could be more or less depending on your size. I then made 3 double crochet in each stitch and then another row of double crochet. And I was done with the top.

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When I finished the top, I realized it wasn’t even difficult. It was just my mind playing games on me because I had already decided a corset top was too difficult to crochet. My mom really liked the top and said “that is a very beautiful Gen Z top” and I agreed. This was very insightful and fun to make. I’ve learned so much from making this top and I already have a table full of orders now. Thank you for your time.

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