I got curious about crocheting the peacock pattern seamlessly.  It was actually much easier than I thought it would be.  I kept going and going and it kept being easy.  And now ... I have a fancy beginning for a water bottle holder. Ha!

Then I got curious about edges ... like if I wanted to make a sweater or cardigan in the peacock pattern.  Here I'm using the yarn from this sweater* to do some tests for vertical, horizontal, and diagonal edges. They were also easier than I expected.  There's nothing like having experiments turn out right and feel easy.  So nice.  Hey, wouldn't a bead look really nice in the hole at the bottom of each feather?





While looking through 220 More Crochet Stitches: Volume 7 I found these great illustrations that help visualize how you can put askew edges in the middle of a design to suit your purposes.  It's kind of a cool concept to stop a patterned stitch at some random straight line (that doesn't line up with the pattern) and have it still look OK.  The whole thing really intrigues me.

I'm totally feeling a purple peacocky cardigan in my future.  Wouldn't that be grand?

*I'm sorta sad about giving up on the Icelandic Turtleneck.  It was one of the first crochet patterns for clothes that actually made me excited.  But once I got a little past the armpits, I realized that I was going to need to frog it and take out some stitches in the back panel because it was floppy back there.  The same kind of thing Kim needed to do. Which isn't a big deal, especially in view of how cute the sweater is (see Kim link), but it took the edge of excitement off the project just long enough that I lost my momentum.  Well, I own the book, so I can always make it later.  Or, who knows, after I work on this and give up on it, maybe I'll start the turtleneck again.  Could happen.