Under Color Crochet

  This sweet piece is my first public showing! 🤩 In the Visitor's Center office  😄 on the  first floor of the CSUP Library! 😎 I'm pretty sure this officially makes me a crochet artist now.   🤔  With my work on display for all the people to see.  😍   I can't stop grinnin'.  😁   There is a happy backstory to this colorful yarn. It is the "free to good home" kind of yarn.   😄 Kenny, one of our university librarians, keeps a lost-and-found assortment of items on a shelf behind the front desk. He called me over one morning and handed this odd ball to me! 😋 It was rather rumpled -  loose'ish and a teeny bit unraveled, and had no label on it. But otherwise perfectly good. Clean, brand new , just lost. Needing a good home. Well, it found one! 😍 Of course, I gladly accepted this little Christmas gift , because I knew immediately what I needed to do - make something sweet and bring it BACK to the library for decorat...

  Another yummy yarn from Yarned & Dangerous ! 😍 This gorgeous yarn is a cotton and viscose blend. I did not know what viscose is, but that didn't matter when I splurged on this delightful investment of color and fun. 😎 I just loved the look and feel of it, and I knew immediately that the color scheme would make a snazzy granny square. Turns out, viscose is a synthetic fiber made from cellulose, usually wood or bamboo (thanks, internet). It holds dye well, has a good shape, and blends well with cotton. So perfect! Even though it is a little pricey, I will definitely be buying more of this yummy yarn.  I bought four little cakes of this yarn, in two different color schemes, like sunrise and sunset. I was thinking about doubling up the cakes, like I did for the purple piece in Mega Granny Squares . But then I decided that four smaller pieces will have four times the cuteness here. 😍 Plus, that let me experiment a little bit more, each time with different edging styles. I ...

Yummy yarn from Yarned & Dangerous plus my fave easy peasy pattern equals a quartet of cuties that worked up fast and fun. This chenille yarn is so luxurious and lovely, I am delighted with the look and feel of it. It has just enough bulk to be winter worthy, but still has a light-as-air fluffiness about it. Dee-lish-us! 😍 I have a long history of loving the luxury of chenille yarn. For example, Unicorn Camouflage is pastel perfection with chenille softness, while  Snow Day  combines multiple textures along with gorgeous chenille. Other texture combinations with chenille are featured in G.I. Jane , Sage and Sand ,  Blue Christmas , What a Mess , Clouds and Sunshine , Princess Pillow , and all of these parites: Costume Party , Pillow Party , Purple Princess Party , Pink'n'Peach Princess Party . Oh, my, I do believe there could be a pattern of having too much fun here. Well, but, no! A girl can never have too much fun with textures. 😎 And now, back to this Quartet ...

Look at those corners! 😎 I do love making a nice, perfect, tight corner. 😍 And granny squares are my fave'a'fave way of doing just that. 🤩  (In the photo below, I love how you can just make out The Beast  [the ultimate assortment of mega granny squares!] and Lil' Camy there under the table.😁) These two pieces were delightfully fun and easy to make, because I was already an expert at this particular pattern. The pattern for these two mega granny squares comes from here:  Modern Granny Boho Bag . (Thanks,  Crochet Crowd !) That "Boho Bag" is an easy-peasy crochet-squeeze'y pattern that I love so much, I made two of them here recently:  Baggy Bags . (And who knows what's up with those too cute two cute too cuties now?! I gave Baggy Bags to my love,  Alexandra , because: always free to good home,  Black Cat Cafe & Gallery .) The whole wonderful experience of making those two baggy bags inspired me to make another granny square, which is just ...

  These bags are easy, breezy! I might be making more in a bunch of different colors. 😍   It was an easy pattern, from The Crochet Crowd: Modern Granny Boho Bag   I love it that it starts out as a granny square, and eventually becomes this baggy bag. 😎  And a surprisingly roomy bag, too! The pattern is easily adaptable, and for my next trick, I might just keep on going an extra round or two, and make this baggy, roomy bag even baggier and even roomier. 🤩 I had fun adding and modifying. For the first piece (on the left, above), I followed the pattern exactly. Then, for the second piece (on the right, above), I added a few blingy blings, and had fun with fringe. Later, I also had way too much fun posing these pieces. 😍😎 Here is a folder full of way too many more fun photos:  Baggy Bags