Lapa by Dorris Chan... for the most part

I had seen this pattern a few times before I attempted it. You can find the Lapa Here. It's a wonderful spring to summer feel about it. I like wearing Camisoles but I actually cannot stand my shoulders being bare. Don't worry that preference only gets more awkward into the hotter months when it will be rare you will catch me in anything but pants and a shirt... possibly toque.

I had two major problems the yarn and the instructions.
I had picked up some Bernat Baby Sport yarn and thought it was going to blend well once worked into a pattern, in the ball it seemed pretty bright and worked well and for the most part gender neutral. However. That was not the case, the colour was Lillipop Drop. Anyone who has tried to work with it or, seen it understands how obnoxious and... unique it looks once turned into well, anything. So I had to balls of the stuff lying around in my stash for well over a year wondering what I should do -But I will get to that in a moment.

The second problem made me wonder if I was reading the instructions wrong or, if I was missing a key step. Looking to the help forums it seemed that almost everyone had a similar problem (not the one I was having) and people just started nit-picking over typos that were small but confusing. The whole thing was confusing and after praying to whatever god(s) one prays to in dire times of confusion. I left the instructions to the wind after I got the gist of the yoke and staggered puff/mesh of the body.

I tried this pattern with this yarn because it seemed like the right fit and may as well use an ugly colour yarn to sacrifice for learning a pattern that was more like an over glorified treasure hunt.

Yarn worked before the dye and the shirt 

after the dye.

Even this picture does justice to the incredibly horrible mish-mash of combined colours. I guess this is why I do not see Bernat selling this colour of yarn anymore...