Cotton is smooth and chunky. Cotton yarn can be fashioned into activewear, loungewear and easy-breezy thrown-on pieces Raffia is ripe to crochet to your heart’s content.

“The Chill line is the ideal chunky single-ply (a.k.a. pencil roving) yarn,” says Flynn of Spruce & Linen. This $15 yarn comes in more than 35 colorways and is made of 100 percent merino wool.

End off, leaving about 6 inches of yarn, then curl the chain into a flower shape with the single crochet end in the top center and the longer stitches on the bottom.