Do you remember my post about New Primavera Square, in which I was talking about how I had started a poncho? Yes, I started a poncho, but somehow it turned out into a tunic. And I’m pretty happy with the result! This is my first tunic ever, which I made without any pattern, just playing around with the squares, using trial and error method, which works quite well for me. Almost all of my color combinations and designs are results of using this method. I’m not afraid of errors. I consider them just as indicators that something didn’t work. Let’s do it again, to see what will work! It’s that simple.

For this tunic I used 100% cotton yarn “Golf” from St. George, and 3.5 mm crochet hook. The yarn is 125m/50g. The square measures approximately 12 x 12 cm (4.7″ x 4.7″)

My New Primavera granny square is almost the same as the old Primavera flower square. I just make some small changes, because I wanted a little bigger square, which in the end proved unnecessary, because the tunic turned out a little to big for me. If I used my old Primavera square it would probably suite me better.

I made this crochet chart and written pattern in case you’d like to use the square for one of your own crochet projects. It’s very easy and quick to make, and you can use it for variety of things, like blankets, pillows, bags, scarfs… And one more good thing. It looks good in two colors as well as in 4 colors (old Primavera Flower square)

When I joined all the squares together, the collar looked a little, I don’t know, maybe boring, or somehow unfinished, so I added 6 additional rows. In that way I decreased the collar and added a little finishing touch, which in my opinion raised the collar and the whole tunic to a higher level. I made a crochet chart for the collar, and wrote the pattern, so who knows, maybe some of you will find it useful.

In case you aren’t familiar with my “old” Primavera flower square, you can find the detailed step-by-step tutorial with lots of photographs here.

Click here to check out all of Dada’s place free crochet patterns.

This is the end of the story about poncho, I mean, tunic. Till the next story, have a beautiful, colorful and creative week!

And now it’s time for the last part of our Secret Garden Shawl tutorial. First, a few words about the yarn. For this shawl (as for majority of my projects) I used “Tango” yarn. It’s 100% cotton yarn 125m/50g. The manufacturer is St. George from Serbia.

1. light yellow 0303

2. yellow 0004

3. lime green 0113

4. light green 0350

5. light blue 0404

6. light pink 0394

7. light lavender 0408.

8. light grey 0025

9. grey 0370

These are the Secret Garden Flower elements. There are 5 different elements. You need to make 66 elements in total, 14 pieces of  element A, and 13 pieces of all the other elements.

This is the chart of the whole shawl. You can see that you need to make 65 small square elements (little blue squares in the picture), and 10 small flowers (pink circles), five on each side of the shawl. Now you think: “It sounds like a lot of work!” Yes, it is, but I think the shawl is worth the effort.
The last lesson you have to learn is how to make and join the small flowers on the sides of the shawl. So, let’s get started!This is the place where we will join our small flower.

Complete the first three rounds of the Secret Garden flower. Work through the fourth row, make one complete petal, and stop once you’ve worked the third dc of the second petal.

The arrow in the picture indicates the place where you should join the first petal.

So, just make slip stitch in that ch-9 space

then make 2 dc and sc in the same ch-5 space (these are remaining stitches of the petal)

Make sc, then 3 dc in the next ch-5 space, and then again, join the petal to the next ch-9 space with slip stitch. Make the rest of the petal – 2 dc, sc in the same ch-5 space.
Now, join the third petal to the next ch-9 space in the same way you’ve already joined the two previous petals.

Join the fourth,  the fifth and the sixth petal to the next 3 ch-9 spaces. Now we just have to make one more petal.

So, make the last petal (sc, 5 dc, sc in the last ch-5 space), and join with slip stitch to the first sc, or make an invisible join. Fasten off. Join 9 remaining flowers in the same way. Now, when you’re done, you can enjoy your shawl and be proud of yourself!

Hope you will like this tutorial! If you do, and decide to make one for yourself, please send me a picture, I would be delighted to see it!
The first part of the Secret Garden Shawl tutorial you can find here. The second part is available here.
Have a creative week!