Monday, April 18, 2016

Colour Therapy

I have finished knitting all the parts of my black cardigan but haven't yet put them together. After weeks of working with black, I need some colour in my life! I also need a gift for a baby shower at the end of the week. I'm using up my handspun wool scraps to make a pram blanket.

I had to learn to read a crochet chart to make this. I've been using knitting charts for years but never managed to get the hang of crochet charts. The pattern on http://www.mypicot.com/is only given in a chart and since this pattern is just what I was looking for, that was the incentive I needed to learn how to follow a chart. I can use quite short bits of wool, especially for the narrow rows, which makes this pattern perfect for using up scraps. 

12 comments:

  1. That makes lots of sense to pick the narrow rows when you have bits of yarn to use, always good tips and love this look it makes it one of a kind:)

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  2. It's very pretty! I learned to read crochet charts before learning to read knitting charts, so I find it easier to follow the crochet charts. I guess it's all in what we learn first.

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  3. Ripple patterns are so effective - as long as you don't mind dealing with lots of ends!

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  4. Look at all those colors! What fun! The question now, do you see the other works that these are the scraps of?

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    1. Yes for some of them but mostly I'm looking at the colours with new eyes.

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  5. So pretty & uplifting !!!
    I find crochet charts much easier than knitting charts because the former are actual graphics of the stitch in most cases.
    My picot has a great collection of patterns in both.

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  6. It's awesome in all those colors!!! :)

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  7. lots of pretty colours, I don't like crochet charts either, I find them much harder to follow as you have to keep taking your eye off your work and try and figure out where you are up to.

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  8. It's not so much that I don't like them as I've never learnt to use them.

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  9. Love the ripple pattern, I've made two afghans just like this. You know, I never did learn how to read crochet patterns? When I discovered tutorials on YouTube I simply followed those instead!

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