Black Crochet Cotton Tunic Top

Finally finished!

Materials
Coats Manila Bay Cannon, mercerized cotton thread size 8, black, 7 balls (175m/ball)
Crochet hook size 2.5mm
Finished size: 34" bust
Pattern: Shapely Tunic Top

Almost done with black crochet tunic...

Here it is, with one more ball to be worked up:

Finished length would be about 26 inches.

Waist Shaping...

Finished the waist part, its now fitting the waist but not constricting it. The lace design adjusts to the wearer's figure ;)

Sleeves and Neck edging done!

  

I'm finally done with the top part of the dress! I used up 3 balls of Cannon thread so far...

I'm still in love with the sleeves, after having done several projects using this pattern (my own design). 

After sewing the shoulder seam, the sleeve is crocheted directly on the armhole edge.      

                

The neck edging is made up of two rows of scs.

Work in progress...

After taking a break from crocheting, and working on this for a few hours at a time, I have this to show. I'm now on the third ball (4 more to go!) Hopefully this will go faster after the sleeves are done, and crocheting will be worked in rounds from the midriff to the bottom end.

I have yet to sew the seams - shown here (below) are the back and front shoulder edges which I'm holding. These are the only seams that need to be hand-sewn...everything else is crocheted. 

Up next: sleeves to be crocheted on the armholes.