かぎ針編みチュニック beach cover up

今回から、英語版は英語音声に分けました。字幕は時間がかかりすぎるw
音声入力はファイルを入れるだけで出来るので楽々です。若干の聞き辛さは
あるけど、まぁ、おいおい改善していきます。日本語版（https://youtu.be/0lj9XNs4Izs）はいつも通り自分の音声です。こっちも機械音にしてもいいかな、と検討中。＜自分で話すより、結局時短になるんだよな。

Hello!

Today, I would like to introduce you a crochet tunic aka beach cover-up.
I'll share making tips.  As a bonus, I will introduce a knitting cardigan for men, so I hope you'll watch until the end.

First of all, this beach cover-up is made by 8 motifs that combine a circle and a square and also the love knot stitch.

I made it as a one size fits all, but if you needed to make it smaller or larger, you can change the size of the motif to suit your body. (chest size is the key.) One motif is about 11 cm per side(4.5 inch).

For the motif part, you can change to Granny Square, Solid Square, and other square motifs, as long as you are making the same size.

And from the chest to the bottom, I crocheted with the love knot stitch aka Solomon's knot.
This crochet method is very easy. So I recommend you learn this stitch, if you don't know.
I started to crochet from the hem where you see clovers. You make this body part about 1.5 times larger than the chest. The chest part is 11cm x 8, so you make this part about 88cm x 1.5.  I made this part seamlessly, I crocheted  all around.  So the number of stitches is quite a lot but you won't have to sew parts together later.

I like clovers, I don't plan four-leaf clovers, but I hide them in some places.  You can make them all four leaves instead of three.
I made these leaves with double crochet,  if you want to increase the size of the leaves, you can crochet with triple or quadruple crochet.  It may look better.

If you prefer a longer tunic, you can increase the number of rows to suit your body length. I changed the color in the middle, if you want to crochet in one color, you don't need to change threads.

You can make a lot of things from this love knot stitch. I will give you some ideas.   For example,  you would be able to crochet this short scarves in just an hour.  By the way, I didn't weave-in the ends yet. 
I gave this shawl to my mother-in-law already so I don't have it now to show.  I crocheted the love knot stitch on the edge of this shawl.

 I also  made this bolero a few years ago, I think this is pretty. It's perfect for wearing over a dress. If you use luxury material, you can also wear it for some parties. I crocheted with alpaca lace weight yarn. I hope this gives you crochet project ideas using the love knot stitch.

By the way, someone requested me to make a tutorial video for this bolero before, unfortunately this bolero is not my own design, so I can't, sorry. Anyway, this is really gorgeous bolero with a lot of clovers on the edges.

Next, as a bonus, this is a men's cardigan that I knit for the first time as a knitting beginner. Even though I'm a beginner, I tried to make it by gathering knowledge of books and the internet, so there are some strange mistakes, and I'm still not good at knitting, so please give me a break this time.
At some point, I'd already noticed that I had a mistake, the hem was knitted completely wrong.  But I continued and finished it anyway.  Since I was tired, I didn't want to frog the yarn and redo. (not good!! ...I know.)

It would be great if some people would be encouraged to knit seeing this.
Even beginners can knit a cardigan, I proved it. So please feel free to knit! Let's trial and err!  And please, Knitting experts, just teach us gently :D!

Today I introduced my recent crochet and knit projects. In the coming up video, I would like to introduce my recent crochet Granny Square maxi dress. please thumbs up and subscribe to
my channel! Thank you for watching! See you next week!