Under Color Crochet

  This sparkly yarn is so fun to work with, and I love how it looks and feels. 😍 I t has a little bit of stretch to it, and still holds its shape really well. The yarn is called "Date Night," and even though I haven't been on a date in 35 years 😆  I still love it.  I have multiple leftovers from various projects, and I just can't throw out even a short string of this. I have plans now to take all t he leftovers and make a handful of tassels. 😎  Here's a folder of too many pics, showing how much fun I have working with leftover bits and pieces of this gorgeous yarn:   Date Night .  Fringe Fest! 😎 Sparkly Yarn + Creative Crochet = Colorful Fun

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 .  ...