Cake yarn, gradient yarn, and specialty yarn: make beautiful patterns now

Dear users, dear authors,
get your hands on some great patterns for bobbles, gradient yarn, and specialty yarn now. Have fun crafting!

@Authors:
2–3 patterns per author is enough. Don’t forget to include links, images, and other details. All patterns featured here must not have been promoted in the forum within the past 3 weeks, must have at least 10 sales each, and must have a conversion rate (CR) of at least 2%. 

Today I’ll show you what you can create with a crochet hook using leftover gradient yarn.
I still had some leftover Jawoll Magic Degradé sock yarn in my stash. This is what came out of it:


I crocheted the egg cozy "Autumn Leaves with cotton yarn (Catania by Schachenmayr), but for the autumn leaves I used leftovers of the sock yarn. The gentle color gradient makes the leaves look so realistic: they look almost real.



Some of the fruit from the colorful fruit crate was crocheted with the same gradient yarn:
the apples,
the pears,
the peach,
the kiwi,
the (green) grapes.
This creates that realistic effect again, and the fruit is hard to tell apart from real fruit.

And here’s another example of what you can crochet with a leftover gradient cake yarn:

For Octopus Oskar I had about 70 g of a 4-ply gradient cake yarn from light blue to white left over.  I used the light blue part for the body and the outsides of the tentacles, and the white part for the insides of the tentacles.

This asymmetrical triangular shawl looks especially beautiful when knitted with a Bobbel.

A beautiful lace pattern is knitted with raised, simple cables, which are only worked every 24 rows.

Click for the knitting pattern

The big advantage of gradient yarns is that all you have to do is knit, and the color effects appear all by themselves. Here are a few examples from me.

I hope you enjoy looking at them and making them yourself.
Warm regards from Ina

Lace shawl for beginners
The pattern consists of 2 pattern rows that repeat continuously. The gradient yarn and the wave-like pattern create very beautiful shawls in the end. You can wear them open as a stole or tied as a shawl.





Cardigan with shawl collar

This piece also makes an impact simply through the play of colors in the yarn. The open cardigan is knitted top-down as a raglan. It has a flattering shawl collar, pockets, and a belt.





Universal cowl for the whole family

You can always use one, especially now in the transitional season. You can knit it for the whole family—either with gradient yarn or in a solid color. The pattern and play of colors happen all by themselves.