When I started crocheting, I didn't know much about how it works. In the first shop I visited, I bought the very first yarn I saw. That’s how I got the rainbow ball.

I decided to use the very popular Caffe Latte pattern. It’s a simple pattern that looks very nice.

It was 1100-meter, three-thread yarn, so crocheting was a little slower and sometimes I got stuck. At first, I didn't like the colour combination very much, but gradually I got used to it.

The scarf measures 196 centimetres by 125 centimetres. I was pleasantly surprised by it. The pattern stands out beautifully and the colours are nicer than they seemed in the ball of yarn.

A few months later, I was thinking about what to do with the four balls of Ideen Pro Lana yarn, which I used for the scarf Pyramids. I already knew how the yarn behaved, and I thought I would try to crochet another Caffe Latte from this yarn.

Things went sideways while I was crocheting this shawl, and I made something I call Caffe Macchiato. I finished one yarn and was excited about those colour transitions, so I decided to experiment. I decided to make four little Caffé Lattés and somehow link them.

There were a lot of unknowns. Are the balls actually the same? Will they fit together? How do I link them? Will the connections be visible?

It turned out great. When I wear it, I feel like I have a target on my back :) But in a good way.

Logically, four balls were used for the scarf, and I crocheted it with a size 3.5 hook. The scarf measures 217 centimetres on the longer side and 137 on the shorter sides.

At the spot where green meets green, I connected the pieces very easily. I just crocheted them together with the green colour that was left. That was the easier way.

But how would I connect the pieces where all the colours were? I couldn't just crochet it with one colour, as I would destroy the transitions I loved.

Occam's razor. I just stitched them by hand with different colours corresponding to the given part of the transition. This didn't ruin the transition in any way.