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Fireworks Cake Volcano Circus

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  Orange, pink, yellow, purple, green and white go perfectly together! When you panel the bold colors, trim with more delicate colors, and fringe the whole package with all of the above. 🤩 Too big to be a baby blanket. (Or, is it?!) Not big enough to be an afghan. (But still?) Shaped wrong for a shawl, but could be a silly shawl for kids' dress-up. (Obviously.) Too small for a bedspread. (Maybe not?) Too big for a lap blanket. (Or might be perfect?) 😄 This piece is definitely perfect. This piece was so easy and fun to make: four panels of double crochet, each with single crochet edging in a different color. Then trimmed with a barely-there ruffle (just two stitches per one base stitch) in white. This gives it a fun flounce, and doesn't take as long to work up. Then fringe added to the long edges, using all the colors.   I had way too much fun posing this piece as a silly, spouting, colorful cake. 😎 But it also poses very nicely as the over-sized lap blanket that it is, on t