Yarn is soft and enjoyable to work with. Tested it out with single crochet and Tunisian knit stitch. The second picture is single crochet; it was more mottling than patterning but still looked nice. I used 21 stitches for the row count. The first picture is Tunisian knit stitch; it appeared to be patterning but not quite the same as the picture. I used 24 stitches for the row count. I can knit too, just didn’t try it with knit as I tend to crochet more. I would suggest to use multiples of 12 as indicated on the label. When I used 24 it seemed to work better (though the stitch was knit so that may have had something to do with it). Got color 51501. Didn’t seem to get into the light orange much but it is in the ball of yarn; just didn’t stitch enough to get to it so color looks pretty close to the listing picture. Can play around with the yarn to see the effects you can get or try to color pool more to get the advertised pattern.