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 decoration. 😎 Aw, look how fantasti

  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 added