There seems to be a disturbing trend as part of the “crochet revolution” to create a swathe of ”super-quick” patterns, using up the latest trendite yarn.

I can understand there is a significant appeal for the easy gratification of something you can finish in one day. There’s less temptation to put it aside for the next new batch of yarn that you just have to start something withrightNOW!  

but honestly:

 I am unconvinced that this is either a) “slinky”, b) “sophisticated” or c) “fun”.

And to test whether it looks better in different colours, I conducted a short and highly scientific test (it’s called the recolour feature in Microsoft 2007 Powerpoint as I don’t have Photoshop available at present)  with the following results:

I think thats a big NOPE.