Gosh don’t the weeks fly!
I didn’t get a lot done this week crafting wise, it is
the school holidays here and I have been keeping an eye on some little ones for
a friend in need. I get home about 4.30
and all I can do is just sit! However in the quiet moments I have been able to
sort out my Sweet Pea Afghan.
I am up to date on the motif 2, phew, that was this week’s
clue. They are about 40 cm (15.5 inches)
across. They actually look better in
real life, I can’t get the camera to get the red tones right.
Motif 1 (the one in the centre was giving me problems.) Originally I did the vine bit in silver, but
it was dulling the whole thing as it got bigger, so this week I frogged it and
tried it in white. It now was like as if
someone had heavy handedly piped frosting on it, it was over the top frothy! I had more or less decided to use a new colour,
parchment. Colourwise it is between the silver and white. It hit me, while I was doing this week’s clue
that i was doing a rotation of solids, silver white and lavender, why not a
rotation on the vines! Yay, it worked.
By the way, this photo is a better representation of
the colours.
Now I have to catch up on these motifs, one completed
6 more to go (each only have 3 rounds to do as I am doing them in conveyor belt
manner.
Moral of this
story is that when you decide to go down a completely different track in a
mystery CAL, you will have to do a lot of frogging if you are a colour freak
like me! In future I think I will wait a
few weeks to see where it is going before I decide on colour unless I am using
the colours suggested. Actually I don’t think
I have ever followed colour suggestions!
By the way I want to thank everyone for their advice
last week on the knitting, I have started over (the wool shop did have more of
the colour ways). The suggested weaving
in every 3 -5 stitches works and it is growing a lot faster! Well it would if I had more time and hands,
LOL.
Well that’s all I got time for this week, I hope to
get out into the garden next week, with all the rain we have had my garden is
looking like a jungle!
The tulips are wonderful this spring.
