Starting Chains

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I super duper especially loved working with this novelty yarn: two shades of pink, glossy sheen, with sequins. 🤩 Could it BE any more fabulous?! 😎 I've had a long term love affair with sequins:  Gold and Silver, Winter Mint, Moon Stone, Snow Day. But I know, it looks more fabulous than it feels...it can be a bit scratchy on the skin. That's why I mostly just experiment and have fun with it, but I don't work up big projects on it... or do I?! 😁


I do this often: make a giant ball of starting chain. Sometimes I combine fine strands (above) and sometimes I just take one bulky strand (below) and run with it. 😁 In the end, all I end up with is a giant ball of a starting chain, and it feels like I have really accomplished something great. 😎 Like, "Big ball. Me made big ball. No purpose, just. Ball." 😆


I love combining strands of various textures (below is a faux-hair strand plus a sequined strand, both fine weight), and I especially love working with the novelty yarns (love those sequin sparkles and metallic strands 😍), because all of the above is a great way to use up my stash of extras, odds'n'ends, leftovers, and hoarded bits. 😂
 

Yes, I'm a love-sucker for all that shimmer-glimmers: Sea Shine, Sand Sparkle, Magenta Mischief. 😍And just anything sparky-sparkle: Princess Party, Princess Pillow, Sparkly Mini-Purse. 😁 I could go on. But I don't want to show off. 😼

So fun! Making perfect use of this pottery bowl.


Notice that this fine yarn is itself a combination of three strands of super fine.
Wow! Gorgeous! 


Then, what is a girl to do with a ball of sequined starting chain sparkle sheen yarn?!
Make more starting chain, of course. 😎
A starting chain, made out of starting chain, looks like this:


And then what?
Well...yea. This can happen:


I had way too much fun creating random pieces with these starting chains of novelties. None of it makes any sense, there is no pattern, and it turned out gorgeously odd. 😎 These are vaguely Egyptian-goddess like, and just super cool. As costume pieces, maybe, in a B-movie. 😂 This reminds me, I once had a vision: Egyptian Goddess. 


More starting chain fun below. It goes on for a while. 😎
Too many more here: photo album

 








Colorful Fun + Starting Chains = Creative Crochet




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