Dragon's Egg Dice Bag

Future me here again. I've gotten a bit ahead of myself with pre-written posts, so I'll be double posting until I catch up with my one-week-ahead-only schedule.

For my latest crochet project I decided to roll the dice again, and chose two pattern books and four inidivudal patterns I've been wanting to give a go.

The Universe got cheeky and had me land on #1, or the Dragon Egg Dice Bag by Cindy de Vries. This is a free pattern I found on Ravelry, and I thought it was really cute -- perfect dice or gift bag for any fantasy or Game of Thrones lover.

For the dice bag I decided to use the cake of Premier Sweet Roll Vivid in the colorway Lava Lamp. This is a 100% acrylic #4 medium worsted weight self-striping yarn with 174 yards/160 meters and 3.5 oz./100 grams. Sweet Roll is one of my favorite acrylic yarns so I was looking forward to testing out this line variation. Also, the vivid colors are amazing.

I've reviewed Sweet Roll many times, and the Vivid line did not deviate at all from my expectations. This is a soft, sturdy acrylic yarn with a lovely hand that works up with terrific stitch definition. The vivid colorway is just as pretty crocheted as it is in the cake.

This is a fairly easy project, about at the level of a confident beginner. At first I couldn't manage to get the dragon scales of the pattern to match the photo, and then I realized I had crocheted them wrong, so I frogged what I'd done (which was a snap, no worries there) and redid them. For anyone who wants to try the pattern: When you make each scale, you start making your first double crochet cluster at the top of the right V stitch post, but then give the project a quarter turn and start making the second crochet cluster at the bottom of the left V stitch post.

As you can see the pattern turns out really fabulous. I'm going to be making quite a few more of these. Excellent project.

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