A stitch and a scarf

Yup, that's a pretty accurate description of my brain when I'm crocheting 😄

You know how it is when you're idly surfing the 'net ~ you start off browsing through one blog, then move onto another and before you know it half the morning has gone!  Anyhoo, that's what I was doing the other day when I came across some new-to-me stitches on HeartHookHome, one of which was this one ~ the lemon peel stitch.  It's a very simple stitch, a combination of alternate double and treble (US single and double) stitches worked over an odd number of starting chains. 

I made a swatch big enough to use as a dishcloth.  Each row is a similar height to a half-treble (US half double) crochet.  As I was just trying a new stitch out of idle curiosity I didn't bother edging my "dishcloth swatch" nor did I block it, so it's a little wavy at the edges.  I really like the stitch and at some point will try it out on something larger.

And talking of making something larger, I've used some of that gorgeous Stylecraft Dream Catcher yarn that I couldn't resist to crochet a scarf ~ this is the Tree of Life shade.  I used the corner-to-corner technique, making a long and narrow rectangle.  I did have to do some jiggery-pokery with joining in a new skein of the yarn as the end of one does not necessarily marry up with the beginning of another!  

 Still, I don't think I did too bad a job of it in the end 😉 One of these days I'm going to make a corner-to-corner blanket as it creates such a lovely squishy effect.  In the meantime, though, this scarf destined to be a Christmas gift 😊