J.P. Kinda Crochets

On Amazon, there are oodles of yarn kits you can buy, many of them aimed at people who want to make amigurumi. Making stuffed animals is not exactly a thing I want to do, but I am always looking for fun and interesting twists on otherwise mundane crochet projects. It’s reasonably easy to take a bag of yarn and make a multi-color article of clothing like a hat, poncho, or vest. I’ve used a bag of yarn to make such a poncho in shades of blue, green, and gray. But those amigurumi kits have the tiniest balls of yarn and I ended up with two kits because it’s difficult for me to turn down “free” yarn. After playing around with some boxed sets of chenille yarn in multiple colors, I realized that using Tunisian stitches, especially the Simple stitch, yield more interesting results than standard crochet stitches. As you pull one color through on the reverse pass and make new stitches on the forward pass, you get some really pretty intersections of color. I made a number of multi-colored mid-length shrugs with this approach.

My tension is terrible on this chenille shrug because it was the first one I did, but you get the idea. I used 4 colors and one of the “colors” is variegated, mixing some of the other colors into it and adding it a splash of pink.

This inspired me to try to do something with those amigurumi kits. Because the balls are so tiny, I started grouping like colors together. I had enough balls of green (I hope) to take a similar approach and make a similar length shrug. I grouped my balls of yarn into a darker set and a lighter set and now I’m off to see what the end will be.

Will I regret having spent (wasted) my time on this? Let’s go!