Next for my mosaic crochet experiments is to attempt a chart of an image rather than a repeating pattern. I used the knitting chart app to plot out an owl, with the goal of making a small bag. I used a smaller hook to produce a dense fabric, and made the base as a long oval with increases on the ends in each row.

To make the walls of the bag, I worked in rounds of back loop single crochet, alternating colors, and dipping down with double crochet to block out color in the previous row. My original chart was close, but I had to make some adjustments as I went due to technical aspects. Here is the final chart.

And here is one side of the bag.

It is still recognizable as an owl, but does have a different look since the mosaic crochet does not produce perfectly square color blocks, at least at my current level of understanding. This phenomenon occurs in charted knitting too. I found the reverse side of the crochet intriguing, as it was almost a negative of the front.

Since I worked in the round, I didn’t cut my ends, but took them up to the next row as I circled. This way I had less yarn ends to weave in (yay!)

I have worked my way through the entire bag of acrylic scrap yarn. Here is the lineup of hats I was able to put together with the multitude of colors.

This was actually a good color experiment. I combined colors I never would have picked originally, and I think they turned out well. Looking around a pile of yarn and deciding which colors to put together and in which amounts is a good brain exercise as well. Plus it is an excellent stash buster.