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Whimsy

I've had this ball of Interlacement's Toasty Toes for quite some time. As the name suggests, it's intended as a sock yarn but I prefer a finer-gauged yarn for socks. I wish I taken a picture of this yarn as I bought it, in a loose hank. The rainbow color pattern was really striking. Unfortunately, as you wind it into a ball, it becomes a jumble of very short sections of obnoxiously bright colors.

It just doesn't look nice knitted up.

So I decided to just go with the in-your-face attitude of this yarn and crochet a scarf. Several other knit-bloggers have taken up crochet hooks this summer, it seems, so I decided to join in the fray.

Crochet stitches are much larger than knit stitches of a corresponding gauge. So the variegated colors really pop out at you, instead of just turning into a mush of stockinette.

I was inspired by a free online pattern from Lion Brand Yarn. But instead of going diagonally with the post-crochets, I'm going verticallly.

Of course, my scarf won't be as wide as the Lion pattern, but I'm really liking it so far and I'm glad I've found a use for this difficult yarn.

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