{"id":1653,"date":"2023-06-28T19:23:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T00:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2023-06-28T18:50:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T23:50:58","slug":"hello-july-well-almost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/28\/hello-july-well-almost\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello&#8230;July! Well, almost&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>I haven&#8217;t posted in a while, but that does not mean I haven&#8217;t been crocheting.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have been working with a lot of different yarns, I bought some, and was gifted some on a trip (used some of that up already). I&#8217;ve been using some that I already had by creating new color combinations with different colorways of one of my favorite yarns with oddballs and making fun color combos. I had to take a little break because I needed to make a shower gift in a hurry. It&#8217;s the end of June and most excitingly&#8230; I have passed the halfway point of my hat and scarf goal, made a single hat and also made two red scarves. Things are going well, summer has just begun which means lots of outside concerts and movies where I can sit and watch and crochet.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Here are a few things that I&#8217;ve been working on&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1653 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"490\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Shimmeriebrown.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Shimmeriebrown.jpg 490w, https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Shimmeriebrown-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"368\" height=\"277\" src=\"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Colorscaperoma623.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Colorscaperoma623.jpg 368w, https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Colorscaperoma623-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"337\" height=\"275\" src=\"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puzzlecombo1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puzzlecombo1.jpg 337w, https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puzzlecombo1-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"368\" height=\"277\" src=\"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puzzlecombo2IP.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puzzlecombo2IP.jpg 368w, https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puzzlecombo2IP-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"277\" height=\"368\" src=\"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puzzlecombo2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puzzlecombo2.jpg 277w, https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puzzlecombo2-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"368\" height=\"277\" src=\"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puzzlecombo3hatip.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"Hat started in two different colorways of Premier Puzzle\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puzzlecombo3hatip.jpg 368w, https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puzzlecombo3hatip-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1659'>\n\t\t\t\tHat started in two different colorways of Premier Puzzle\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"369\" height=\"455\" src=\"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puzzlecombo3.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puzzlecombo3.jpg 369w, https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puzzlecombo3-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"277\" height=\"368\" src=\"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puzzleoddballs.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puzzleoddballs.jpg 277w, https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puzzleoddballs-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I went into my working stash and pulled out some yarn that I bought at a great discount. After a test run, I bought a lot, so I try to only use a bit of it each year until it&#8217;s used up. That way groups won&#8217;t get six or seven sets in the same color in a donation batch. The browns (Lion Brand, Shimmerie &#8211; discontinued) was my most recent at-work project until I only had a few inches to work on and brought it home to finish. The multi-colored self striping yarn is Red Heart&#8217;s discontinued Colorscape in Rome. I really like this yarn, and it was discontinued when I happened upon it. I&#8217;m looking for a similar yarn that I would like.<\/p>\n<p>Premier makes great yarn and I buy from them frequently. Puzzle is one of my current favorites, their sister company, Universal Yarn also makes Major which is the same weight, just different colors and price point. I have a smallish stash of leftover oddballs from projects because one ball of Puzzle or Major won&#8217;t quite make a set. So, depending on the pattern, I have varying amounts of the yarn leftover. I decided to take a few colors and use them to make one-of-a-kind colorful sets. Puzzle uses the similar colors but doesn&#8217;t follow the same color changes as Major. I had a bit of some yarn from Ice Yarns, a Turkish company. It&#8217;s very similar to Puzzle and Major, but doesn&#8217;t have specific names and as it happens with me&#8230; It was discontinued. The weight is about the same, so I included some of the Ice yarn with the Puzzle\/Major combos. I like the variety. Most of all, the yarns are machine wash and dry and soft. I could buy just another ball of the Puzzle but the dye lots may not be the same. The experiments with the colors were interesting.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few more small balls that I wound into cakes to get a better idea of how much I have and what I can combine into sets. For one set, I played a bit of yarn chicken, and I might just make a few warm hats with what I have combined with a Puzzle yarn that&#8217;s in shades of gray, to save me from the frustration.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I like the outcome and use up the bits and pieces (something I learned from my grandmothers, not to be wasteful).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Happy crocheting!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t posted in a while, but that does not mean I haven&#8217;t been crocheting. &nbsp; I have been working with a lot of different yarns, I bought some, and was gifted some on a trip (used some of that up already). I&#8217;ve been using some that I already had by creating new color combinations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1670,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions\/1670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}