It all started with a feeling that I had been neglecting my crochet. It's such a relaxing,take-your-mind-off-everything activity that it would be good for me to continue.
I realised that fab as my granny squares were, I didn't have enough wool to make a whole blanket so progress ground to a halt.
Luckily, I got re-inspired by Lucy at Attic 24 and hunted out a yarn shop. One field trip and of 15mins um-ing and ah-ing later, I'd spent more than I'd meant to on a very pretty collection of yarns...
The plan started with summery/hot colours, so I grabbed a yellow, orange and red...
Then I experimented with other colours to add to the mix. The hot pink was a definite...
Then I tried out various other colours, rejecting those that made the combination too dark , too dreary or too red...
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| They look worse altogether! As individual colours, they almost worked but just dragged the summery colours down a bit. |
Following Lucy's advice, I kept playing with the colours until the mix felt right. This did involve me feeling slightly idiotic and self conscious as I basically kept grabbing balls of wool and fiddling with them on the table, occassionally putting one back or swapping it for a different one. It seemed to work though, as I ended up with a lovely combination of colours. Here's my final selection:
2 comments:
Good choices:)
Oh lovely. I do love granny squares.. just can stitch away and then make something up after. Great!
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