A Riot of Colour

I had a great weekend with the Handweavers Guild playing with colour. Pascale gave us an excellent lecture on colour and then we were away. I was drawn to all those gorgeous purples but decided to stick with the blues and see which colours gave me a good sea. What really surprised me was how the very bright green and the lilac colours I used blended with the blues to give the sea more life. I did not get my piece finished but I came away some yarn and lots of ideas.   

Some of the yarn we got to work with 

Pascale has this on one of her looms

Inspiration everywhere you looked

Hard at work. At last it is quiet!

Maureen is doing triangles

So is Julie

I did some work too

Finished Object

My FIRST piece of crochet is finally a FO. I am really pleased with the end result. It took me about half a day to decide which edging I would use but in the end I went for the very simple double V which I think suits the simplicity of the pattern. I took it to the Mizen for its first outing yesterday. Now lots of Japanese Flowers to make.  

 

Blocking

I had a helper to block my knee blanket and he did a very good job. I managed to get six interlocking camping mats from Lidl and they are ideal for the job. It was well worth the time and effort involved to block it after all the hard work making it.