St. Tropez Tunic

I started this project a while ago but I finally finished my first crochet top. I used a pattern from my favorite crochet magazine Interweave Crochet, this pattern came from the Summer 2012 issue. The pattern is St. Tropez Tunic by Christina Mershon the pattern can be purchased as the digital edition of the magazine here for $6.99. I ended up using a vintage/discontinued yarn for this pattern and I almost ran out so I had to adjust the pattern a little but not enough to cause much of a difference. The yarn I used is Red Heart Lustersheen in Blue Ming, Red Heart still makes Lustersheen but I have no idea if it is the same as the one that I was using. To give you and idea of how old the yarn is it came from a store called Sprouse-Rietz which changed its name in to Sprouse! in 1989. So this yarn was made sometime before 1989, lucky me it have been working with a yarn that is as old as me if not older.

 The only modification that I did was the finishing seem on the shoulder, I ran out of yarn so I wasn't able to do 10 single crochet rows and instead I did 8 rows and slip stitched the seam closed.

 The tunic is comprised of 38 full motifs, 10 half motifs, and 4 quarter motifs. Here is one of the motifs close up.

 Here is the tunic all pinned and stretched out to dry.

Enjoy!

Lovers Knot Scarf

After seeing some pictures of a different kind of stitch/technique for crocheting I set out to make a new scarf. The Lover's Knot is sometimes also called Solomon's Knot, I fell in love with the way it looked so I hunted for a pattern that I could use. I came across a pattern called the Love Knot Scarf by Lucy Croft on Ravelry.com it is a free PDF pattern that I downloaded and went to look for a yarn in my stash that would work. I settled on this organic cotton, Nature's Choice Organic Cotton by Lion Brand Yarn in Strawberry. I only took a couple of photos but here is the scarf

I probably should have used a more delicate yarn or different hook size but I still think it looks great for my first try at it.