The joy of colour!

Hello dears,

without realising it, the colours I am currently using 

to make a blanket are a bit autumnal, don't you think?

Not my usual choice but I really like them anyway; 

it's the combination of them all that does it for me.

And look, I am already choosing a colour scheme for a next 

blanket! I really want to crochet a 'log cabin blanket', but I find it difficult to choose 

the right shades that work together in one block and in the blanket as a whole....

I tried Lucy's   pattern last year, which is stunning and beautiful,

but I wanted to use different colours and there I went wrong.

She cleverly uses 18 (!) colours of yarn in one block!

So, this winter I am trying a much simpler pattern that only uses seven colours,

and hopefully that will work out.

This is the first range I came up with.

Really like it, but they are my safe and usual colours to go for...

Not so bad maybe but I have to try and see if other combinations will work for me also,

you know, getting out of one's comfort zone and such :-).

That Lucy is a great example for me you can see here too, 

I am using her peg method for choosing yarn colours because it works really well!

The second one is not spectacularly different, 

but might be very nice too, a bit less bright...

I want to use the blanket as a cover  for our bed so I have to 

take that in consideration too.

I'll have to sleep on it I think (sorry for the pun ;-)).

Talking about colours: the garden is still doing it's best to deliver too!

Look at those delightful sweetpeas, really the last ones of this year and

smelling like a delicious summer's day.

Wishing you all a colourful and lovely weekend lovelies!