You Are My Baby Penguin

Being on a bit of a crafting roll, I then spent two days at a conference watch party. In these types of situations, I typically pack one too many craft projects to keep my hands busy while I listen. But in this case, I finished both projects that I took and then had time to spare. It was a little surprising for me.

Part of the problem is that I started with the Baby Penguin from the Wildlife Graphghan CAL already past the halfway point. I had pushed myself the night before to get past the beak so I would have one less roll of yarn in my bag. Well, two less actually because I finished the lighter grey also.

The two greys don't have a lot of contrast, but there really are two shades there. I didn't use the darker grey as the designer had designed because when I look at pictures of baby penguins, that darker grey doesn't make sense to me. I should have known it wouldn't take as long to finish this square since it has so few color changes.

The next past project on my list is called You Are My Sunshine and was designed by Christine Bumgarner. I started it in May 2018 which was in the middle of when I had been working on the Solar System CAL. At the time I was seeing a lot of other people crocheting along with the releases of the pattern and had a lot of ideas about how I wanted the colors to be, but I didn't write any of those ideas down. I'm pretty sure, last fall, when I worked on part 2, I made a fresh plan and then also didn't write that down either. So for part 3, I picked out some colors and made a plan for the remainder and I'll see how it goes.

Keeping the colors simple helps the textures pop out more.

This time I wrote down my ideas for the colors. And by "wrote down" I mean, I made a document in my Google Drive in the folder with the YAMS pattern so next time I pick up this project I don't have to do all the overthinking. I'm pretty excited to see how it pans out.