Colour Therapy

It is kind of colour therapy, making these Sunbursts in different colours...

Varsinaista väriterapiaa näiden tekeminen.... 

Green Moss blanket :: Ta-dah!

Another ta-dah moment! The green moss blanket is now ready! I am very happy with the edging, how it lightens up the grey/brown.

More about the pattern and yarns and the edging in earlier postings.

Tämäkin peitto nyt valmis! Olen tosi tyytyväinen, erityisesti reunus keventää kivasti harmaanruskeaa.

Colorful Cushion

I wanted to make a colorful crocheted cushion to go with this blanket I finished last autumn.

First I did this, but I did not like it. While in the blanket all the different colors seemed to work together beautifully even there were so many and very different kind of colors but in the cushion it just did not look right. Backside was ok, so I frogged the frontpiece.

Pientä säätöä tämän tyynyn kanssa. Ajatus oli tehdä kaveri tälle värikkäälle peitolle, mutta jotenkin tuo monivärisyys ei toiminut tässä ensimmäisessä yritelmässä, joten ei kun purkuun. Taustapuoli sentään sai jäädä.





Then I had this idea of making just tiny granny squares with two colors with white borders. And this I like! Now I have the front piece and the back piece (with the buttons on!) and just need to crochet them together.

Uusi yritys pikkuneliöillä, kahden värin + valkoisen yhdistelmä tuntuu toimivan paremmin! Taustapuoli nappeineen onkin jo valmiina.

Framework

Isn't it amazing how the edging can change the whole look of a crocheted work? The edging gives sort of frame to the whole thing and can have a big effect on the look and style.

Right now I am working with the edging of the Green Moss blanket. Started with granny cluster rounds with the greyish brown, then with the greens.

On se vaan ihmeellistä miten reunus voi muuttaa koko työn meiningin. Vähän kuin kehykset taululle, se jotenkin nostaa ja kohottaa koko juttua. Ja jokainen kerros tuo vähän uutta kierrettä kokonaisuuteen. Tällä hetkellä menossa reunus tähän sammalväriseen peittoon.

See how it goes:

First with lime green sc round:

Then olive green dc's:



And finally a darker green sc round:

PS: Note my new wooden crochet hook. Not sure yet if I like working with it or not, but it surely is  Beautiful.

Summer Flowers blanket :: Ta-dah!

And may I present.... the Summer Flowers blanket!!!

 

Yarns: I have used 14 colors of Rowan handknit cotton and 8 colors of Drops Paris for the circles. White edging is Drops Paris. I used a 4,5mm hook.

Pattern: The first three rounds are worked same as the first three in Lucy's Hexagons. The fourth round is simply clusters of 3dc, 1 ch. The circles are made into squares with hdc's (clusters of 3, 1ch) and corners are 3dc, 2cd, 3dc.





Edging: I did 7 rounds of 3dc clusters and then 2 rounds in sc. The final round is mini shell stitch edging from Crochet with Raymond. I really love the lacey feeling of the edging and how it frames the whole fireworks of colorful circles in the middle.



I am so happy with the result!

A new favorite

I have a new favorite, the sunburst. I have always liked the way they look, but somehow I used to think they are difficult and tedious and totally impossible to make. Well they are not. It is actually nice and easy and also quite fast to make.  I like the funky chunky feeling of the pattern with the puff and cluster stitches.

Also great with cotton yarns.

I had a bit difficulties in finding the pattern so I have written the pattern / tutorial here. This is a combination of the patterns I found on the net:

START with the Magic Ring method (I use this) or ch4 and join with a slip stitch

ROUND 1: ch 4 (counts as 1 tr), 15 tr into the ring, join with slip stitch. Fasten off.

ROUND 2 (Puff stitches) change color and ch 1 into the space between the tr's. *yarn over hook, insert hook into stitch and pull up a loop*, repeat * -* twice more, yarn over hook and draw it through all seven loops. Ch 1. Repeat this 15 times (into all the tr's). Join with a slip stitch. Fasten off.

ROUND 3 (Cluster stitches): Change color and join in the space between two puff stitches. Ch 1, dc4tog. Repeat 15 more times, join with a slip stitch. Fasten off.

dc4tog: In the space between two puffs, *yarn over hook, insert hook in the space between puffs, pull up a loop, yarn over hook, draw a loop through only the two first two loops on the hook.* Repeat *-* three more times inserting hook into the same space, yarn over and draw a loop through all the loops (there should be 5 loops) on the hook.

ROUND 4 (Making the square) Change color and join into any space between clusters. Ch 4 (counts as 1 tr), 2 tr, ch2, 3 tr (first corner), *ch1, 3 dc into next space between clusters*, repeat *-* twice more. In the next space make another corner: 3 tr, ch2, 3 tr. Ch 1, 3 dc into spaces between clusters three times, make a corner and then repeat the ch1, 3 dc three times, make a corner and repeat ch1, 3 dc three times. join with a slip stitch. Fasten off.

And you have a beautiful sunburst square!

Summer Flowers blanket colours

The Summer Feeling blanket ta-dah moment is approaching. In the meanwhile, a couple of words about the yarns and colours - of which there were many. I used 8 different colours of Drops Paris yarn and Rowan Handknit cotton 15 different ones. I first started with only colder tones but then decided the feeling was not what I wanted and so I added a couple of warmer orange/brown tones and some darker (aubergine and navy) as well. And that turned out just right. I like the bulky soft feeling of the Drops Paris. I used a 4,5mm hook with this blanket so this was also quite a fast one to make.

Warm oranges, yellows and reds...

 Some blue, turquoise, aqua...

 Greens, pistachhio, olives...

 And some pink and rose...

The navy one is not in the pictures so all together 23 different colours. And I used to think I am not a color person.

Crocheting Summer feelings

This blanket is almost finished now but first a couple of pictures from earlier stages of this project. The colors give me a summer feeling...flowers...bright sun...clear sky...green grass...

The pattern is otherwise the same as in the Green moss blanket, but I did a fourth color round with clusters of 3 dc's. Then just one round with white making the circle into a square with hd's and dc's in the corners.

The Green Moss blanket

I've been working on this blanket for some time now. It started with some green left over yarns from previous projects and then the whole thing just grew into a blanket project. Somehow the different greens and the grey-brown edging remind me of moss on a grey rock.

The pattern is slightly modified from Solstrikke and Crochet with Raymond, except I am making two rounds with the joining color. Yarns are Karisma from Drops and Smart from Sandnäs, with some additional skeins of other yarns.

I have made 110 circles (yes!), the last round is made with the join-as-you go. Still some more rows to go... But I like the way this is turning out.



Sammalmättäällä... Tai ainakin sammaleen ja kallion värit tulevat minulle tästä mieleen. Tämä alkoi pienenä sormiharjoituksena muista projekteista jääneiden vihreiden lankojen kanssa, mutta jotenkin huomaamatta peittoprojektiksihan tämä sitten kasvoi. Muutama lappurivi vielä liittämättä, mutta hyvä tästä on tulossa.