Colour on a rainy day
I’ve been getting a lot of lovely comments recently, particularly on Flickr, about the colours and colour order of the stripes on my granny stripe blanket. It made me realise that I haven’t shared what the shades or yarn are or what colour order actually is. So here goes:
- 1023 Raspberry
- 1061 Plum
- 1241 Fondant
- 1019 Cloud Blue
- 1422 Aspen
- 1316 Spring Green
- 1432 Wisteria
- 1390 Clematis
- 1084 Magenta
- 1081 Saffron
- 1132 Shrimp
- 1246 Lipstick
- 1083 Pomegranate
- 1067 Grape
- 1034 Sherbet
- 1003 Aster
- 1068 Turquoise
- 1062 Teal
- 1065 Meadow
All yarn is Stylecraft Special DK.
I chose to use a repeat colour pattern for this blanket as I like the order of that and if I didn’t I would forever be scrutinising it to find combinations I am not happy with. OK, I guess the other side of that coin is that you see lovely ones that hadn’t been anticipated, but I won’t think about that too much.
I haven’t done any crafting other than the granny stripe blanket for ages now and I am quite enjoying having just one large project to focus on. However, I have had a whole weekend off crochet which as dampened my spirits a little, particularly when I needed a bit of a lift. I was finding that my right wrist was getting quite sore after I had done quite a lot of crochet this past week. I have read many times about crocheteers and knitters who end up with wrist problems and I really don’t want to have that. So I rested like a good girl.
There is one, and only one, advantage of not crocheting! It meant I could paint my nails! How is nail painting linked to crocheting? You may well ask!! I love to have colourful painted nails but find that on the evenings I crochet I can’t do my nails as they are never fully dried and set before I pick up my work and as a result I get dents on my polish. If I leave it until after I have crocheted for the evening I get dents in it from getting ready for bed.
It may be a minor thing in the scheme of things, but it always makes me feel a little cheerier!
