Under Color Crochet

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 espec...

Another "Shawl in a Cake" easy piece. I love making these. This shawl is actually a double shawl, because I used two cakes at once (see photos below). I wasn't sure if that was going to work, but once I got going with it, I was delighted. The varying lines of gray, silver, and white overlapped beautifully to give a final blend of shimmering stone, so light and magical looking, it surprised me. The double strand of yarn gives this piece a sturdiness that drapes perfectly. Gorgeous! 😍  There is a thin metallic thread running through the yarn, and these photos just don't capture it. I promise, the sparkle is there.  And the combination of the two cakes' color schemes creates a texture that looks marbled.  Gorgeous! 😍  The yarn company calls this color scheme "Om Opal." I do appreciate their peace-and-love vibe in naming color schemes (their "Namaste Neutrals" is what I called  Caramel Mocha ), but I have to (again) disagree here. Opal is an okay...

  I love how these turned out! So sparkly, so airy and delightful! They look like they have some substance, because of all that sparkle, but they feel like air because of the fine and extra fine weights of the yarns.  I used up all the rest of the super fine novelty yarn with sequins that I still had, both silver and gold. Whew! What a relief. It is rather difficult to work with the sequined yarn, just so fine and so crinkly. It doesn't hold well and doesn't want to follow along with what you're doing. I love how it looks, but I don't like how it behaves.  So, the perfect pairing did the trick. The novelty sequined yarn does work a bit better when paired with a finger friendly yarn, like Vanna's Glamour (which has its own delicate shimmer), unfortunately now discontinued. I paired Vanna's "topaz" with the gold sequins and Vanna's "platinum" with the silver. They matched perfectly, made a great texture together, and doubled the sparkle .  ...

  My new fave project for summer afternoons! Light weight, and it glitters so much in the sunshine, you should just stay in the shade. 😎 Two kinds of yarn are paired perfectly in this gorgeous piece. The black is "Amazing Lace" in Broomstick Black (what a great name!), and the gold is "Bejeweled Sequin Yarn" (I also have it in silver). Both are superfine weight, which makes them rather difficult to work with alone - but they are surprisingly manageable together.  A few months ago, I worked with similar yarn in another piece,  Raspberry Lace.  The wintertime low humidity caused such an annoying static electricity problem, and made it difficult to work with this yarn. I basically gave up on it then, because it was so slow going, and just frustrating. But now, in summertime - I am back in black! 😁 It is much easier to manage this yarn now for two reasons: (1) the humidity is way up, and (2) it is perfectly paired with another yarn of the same weight but different tex...