Crocheting in Color:

     Where does color inspiration come from? Where do you turn when you just can't seem to settle on color combinations? Lately, I've found most of my inspired choices from those juicy, rich batik fabrics that I find at quilt shows and shops. So the rich cobalt blues and deep purples of this quilt scrap led me to the crochet sample below, in which I was attempting to follow a pattern by the wonderful Lucy of Attic24

The vibrant hues of this little patchwork piece led to choosing similar colors for these granny squares and mandalas I was practicing with -- so yummy you'd love

to pick them up and munch on them!

 

So where does your

color inspiration come from?

Crochet and Collage

I decided to take a detour and work on a blanket for me! After finding Lucy's CAL the other day, I decided to try her pattern -- mostly rows of double-crochet (US terms) alternating with rows of clusters. This pattern gives a lovely texture to the work, even though I'm using a slightly larger hook (I-9, 5.5mm) rather than what she recommends. I've been using the I-9 so long that I've become quite comfortable with it.  Moving to another size hook feels weird.  

It's been a quiet weekend so far; did some collages this afternoon -- bits and pieces of old watercolor and acrylic paintings, some scraps from monotypes, fabric bits from quilting.  I love to take these oddball pieces and work something up.  Here's 2 examples:

I have bags of these flotsam and jetsom remnants, as well as old textbooks.  The snippets of Italian come from a 1920 Learn Italian grammar book that is disintegrating.  

Sometimes as I work on these collages I find that my thinking about colors comes easier -- I think some of these colors will find their way into my Lucy of Attic24 blanket!