Zylpha Tunisian Net
Finished
November 23, 2013
December 3, 2014

Zylpha Tunisian Net

Project info
Maze Vest by Vashti Braha
Crochet
Vest
magazine
small
Hooks & yarn
6.5 mm (K)
484 yards
Stacy Charles Fine Yarns Luna
1 skein = 232.0 yards (212.1 meters), 25 grams
Brown
Stacy Charles Fine Yarns Stella
3 skeins = 252.0 yards (230.4 meters), 75 grams
Brown
Notes

These yarns are elegant separately and together. A dream to design with!

This is a fun project, partly because it’s fast, partly because you can just start and keep going, and deal with the armholes after. Whenever you want, because without armholes, it’s a wonderful wrap. You just make one teensy cut in the skinny yarn and unravel enough stitches to open an armhole. It’s not scary because the mohair sticks to itself enough to give you total control.

So what it means is you can keep crocheting until you use up as much of your yarn as you wish, THEN place your armholes where you wish, THEN edge the armholes with as many rounds as you wish.

This is easy double-ended crochet because alternating the two different yarns makes it obvious when to slide your stitches down to the other hooked end and when not to.

I should have called it “Freedom Vest” because of this and ALSO because it feels weightless to wear and is just warm enough without the mohair sticking too close to the skin ever. Or, “Free to Be, Or Not to Be, a Vest.”

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December 3, 2014
 
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About this yarn
by Stacy Charles Fine Yarns
Worsted
74% Silk, 26% Metallic
77 yards / 25 grams

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by Stacy Charles Fine Yarns
Lace
71% Mohair, 20% Silk, 9% Metallic
232 yards / 25 grams

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  • Project created: May 27, 2014
  • Finished: May 27, 2014
  • Updated: August 17, 2014