Romarine

Romarine Boho Bralette by Sylvie Damey

What Is Being Made

The Romarine is a boho-style bralette top designed by Sylvie Damey. This crochet garment is created as a downloadable PDF pattern suitable for independent makers and crafters. The design emphasizes versatility, allowing makers to customize the finished piece using a wide range of yarn weights and sizes to suit individual preferences and measurements.

Craft and Construction Method

This project uses crochet as the primary construction technique. The pattern is specifically designed for adaptability, enabling crocheters to work with nearly any yarn weight—from lace and sport weights through to worsted and aran weights. The designer recommends avoiding only bulky and super bulky yarns. The construction method emphasizes working the front loop only in certain sections to create the desired fabric texture and drape.

Crochet Stitches and Techniques

The Romarine pattern utilizes fundamental crochet stitches including:

• Chain stitch (ch) – the foundation stitch
• Double crochet (dc) – worked in the front loop to create an airy, textured fabric
• Single crochet (sc) – for shaping and finishing
• Slip stitch (sl st) – for joining rounds and seamless transitions
• Single crochet two together (sc2tog) – a decrease technique for shaping the garment

The pattern encourages crocheters to test their tension by working a sample swatch of a dozen stitches in double crochet using the front loop only. This gauge testing helps ensure the finished fabric achieves the intended balance of airiness and coverage.

Materials and Tools Required

The Romarine pattern is designed to work with a broad range of yarn weights, including fingering weight, sport weight, DK weight, 4-ply, 3-ply, lace weight, aran, and worsted weight yarns. The designer's white sample was created using fingering weight cotton yarn paired with a 3.25 mm (size D) crochet hook. Since individual crocheters work at different tensions, hook sizes may vary; testing multiple hook sizes during the gauge swatch phase ensures the best results for your specific yarn and tension.

Essential tools include crochet stitch markers to track pattern repeats and shaping points. Safety pins can serve as an alternative if dedicated stitch markers are unavailable.

Difficulty Level and Sizing

The Romarine is classified as a beginner level project, making it accessible to crocheters new to garment construction. The pattern's innovative approach to sizing allows makers to try the piece on as they work and take only one small measurement, eliminating the need for complex size calculations. This adaptive method means the bralette can be made in virtually any size to fit the individual wearer.

Pattern Notes

The pattern uses US crochet terminology with UK equivalents provided. Finished garments made from this pattern may be sold commercially, provided the maker credits Sylvie Damey and references the Romarine pattern name.