Crochet My Shadow with Upcycled Paper Yarn

I love taking photographs of shadows.

I find the distortion and playfulness

of shadow images to be endlessly fascinating.

For a long time,

I have been

contemplating

designing

a series of

scarves that

are crocheted

shadows.

I have been posting for days now about spinning the streamers from the Blue Man show.

I wove a Unicorn with the first of the upcycled paper yarn, then a Fairy doll, then a basket.

As I came to the end of the paper yarn, I realized that I just had to do something very special with the yarn.

When I flipped my sketchbook open to start some new drawings, I saw sketches and notes that I have made about shadows, and

VOILA! I knew what I would use the last of the Blue Man streamers for: I would crochet my shadow!

I realized that I

didn’t have

enough

paper yarn to

complete a

full crocheted

‘Shadow Scarf’.

So, I dug out a

crepe paper streamer

that I had bought at

a garage sale this

summer.  I had been

planning on experimenting

with spinning it, so this seemed perfect.

But, blech! It was awful to spin on the spinning wheel!  So, I grabbed my Navaho spindle and:

So, eventually, I had enough upcycled handspun paper yarn to finish the Shadow Scarf.

I LOVE IT!

Here’s

‘Patient Zillah’

my upcycled

cardboard Mannequin,

modelling it

for me.

Doesn’t she look

fetching?

LOL! Patient Zillah

is kind of related to

the upcycled paper yarn

scarf!

They both began their lives as trees,

and are now living

quite different lives as guests in my studio!

If someone had told me

that going to see

the Blue Man show

would have triggered

such an explosion of

creativity for me,

I would have been amazed.

Well, okay, no I wouldn’t.

But, anyhow, I am pleased

as can be with all the deliciousness

that I have had with upcycling  the streamers from the show.

And now, I can play with my shadow anytime I want to, whether the sun is shining or not. Peter Pan would be jealous!

The Shadow Scarf is an original design by Noreen Crone-Findlay and is copyright protected.