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"Queen of spades" cropped cardigan in Tunisian Crochet

THE MAKING OF A LOVELY CARDIGAN IN TUNISIAN CROCHET In the last little while, as you may have noticed, I have been working on an ambitious project: the creation of a Tunisian crochet garment, using a leaf motif (or "spades", as I preferred to call it) already seen in some wonderful knitting projects. First, I thought about replicating the spade pattern in Tunisian crochet, which was not difficult, as I have created similar patterns before - you can find them, for example, in these projects of mine: Leaf it On Shawl , Leaf it On Scarf , Leaf it On Cowl .  Leaf it On Scarf Next, I thought it best to make a garment that had a simple workmanship, i.e. worked flat, and not in the round, to avoid, at least initially, over-complicating the design. A cardigan, therefore, was the best choice. Next, I chose a yarn that I liked and opted for a fine multicoloured yarn. This was the result: "QUEEN OF SPADES" - THE CAL! I liked the finished garment very much, and so did you, whic
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Arm knitting wool blanket

This is a super creative period, for me. I am doing new things, finally I got started with patterns, I am having some good results, at last... Maybe the reason for it is that I always find new things to do with crochet that inspire me, new challenges, and that's what really makes me happy :-). Having said this, you know I did some arm knitting in the past (infinity scarves), but what I really wanted was try it seriously with that beautiful thick wool I hadn't tried sofar. And now I did! This mini blanket (86x60 cm) was knitted using 3 strands of big wool yarn at the same time, and changing colour in the middle. I am quite happy with the result! What do you say? I could put on a pattern for it soon, so watch out ;-). For now, the item is available in my shop: blanket





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