ScrapHappy April 2024

The coral reef is continuing to grow ...

...and proving to be a great way to use up scrap yarn. I’ve used all sorts of yarns with odd textures and colours that I can’t imagine making into a garment or useful object, but they all work with coral. I’m not going to share all of them now; that will have to wait for the grand reveal when we put them in the window display, but since this is my big scrappy endeavour at the moment, here are a couple, plus some bits that are destined for the next. I’m currently using small oddments and making multi-coloured coral with tentacles. I start with the hyperbolic style (two stitches in every stitch) and make a ‘core’ (which you can see in pale green in the picture of the part-completed one second from the right) before making crochet chains in all sorts of colours to give an interesting effect.