Colour inspiration

  

 Flowers are often my inspiration for blankets.

When I see a garden my

 brain translates the beautiful colours into yarn!

This beautiful tulip garden at the home of 

my Instagram friend Pat @relovedpreloved

was my inspiration this week

Those beautiful tulips sent me rushing to my sample squares

 and here is my colour recipe

Stylecraft Special DK 

in

pomegranate shrimp fondant apricot

spring green saffron and lemon with soft peach.

This blanket is to be a gift

 for a baby girl due to arrive at the end of June.

Half term happiness for me

 has been oodles of crochet time

and I've had the pleasure of making this little pram blanket

 from start to finish in just a few days.

The colours have been so refreshing

full of citrus appeal

and memories of childhood sweets!

I love the starburst flower pattern by Jane Brocket

(my pattern is from an old copy of Mollie Makes).

Its really quick making them in batches

 and crocheting over the ends of rounds 1 and 2.

My preferred joining method for this

 is continuous join as you go 

using the contasting colour of soft peach.

and here we have it

tadaa!

So now its just a border that remains

 and this will be some simple rows of treble clusters

 followed by a scalloped edge.

Where did May go? It went so fast

 and not a hint of summer weather here yet!

Its back to school for me tomorrow to exams, 

300 papers to mark this week

 followed by 60 reports to write the week after.

I may be absent from your feeds for the next few weeks!

Happy hookin friends

Heather

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