This colourway has gathered some lovely comments on Helen’s Hookaholics FB Group. Some have said it reminds them of a Victorian design, Poldark, Meissen china or Snowdrops.
See my previous post for colour order up until the corners here.
Order of colours for the corner:
Rounds 50 – 53: Parchment
Round 54 and 55 in Stone
Round 56 in Lincoln
Round 57 in Cream
Round 58 and 59: Stone
Round 60 and 61: Parchment
Round 62: Stone
Rounds 63: Parchment
Rounds 64 -66: Parchment
It measures about 90cm square at this stage.
I am going to wait for the new Stylecraft Colours to be released before I go any further. I think ‘Toy’ could work well in the border.
I have been beavering away at a new blanket: Lost Garden, another gorgeous pattern from Helen Shrimpton. This one really is a joy and very relaxing to make.
The yarn is Stylecraft Special DK and the colours are, from the top: Lincoln, Cream, Stone and Parchment.
This blanket will be a wedding present for the daughter of one of my closest friends. The colours are to go with her sitting room – a lap blanket to fold over a sofa and use for romantic snuggling in front of the TV. ❤ ❤
Not a palette I would have chosen, but I am finding it oh so calming to work with.
The photo above shows the truest colours and was taken in Egypt. It was my early morning project before the rest of the house was up and doing.
The colours and their placement have got a lot of attention in the Helen’s Hookaholics Facebook Group. Some have said it looks Victorian, like a Meissen Plate and like Snowdrops. I love all these references – especially the snowdrops.
This is just before I start to square the corners.
A few people have asked me to give the colour order, so here goes:
Rounds 1 – 10: Cream
Round 11: Parchment
Round 12: Lincoln
Round 13: Stone
Round 14: Parchment
Round 15: Stone
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Rounds 16 – 18: Parchment
Round 19: Lincoln
Round 20 and 21: Cream
Round 22: Lincoln
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Round 23: Lincoln
Round 24 – 26: Parchment
Round 27: Stone
Round 28: Cream
Round 29 – 32 : Parchment
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Round 33 and 34: Parchment
Rounds 35 and 36: Stone
Round 37: Parchment
Round 38: Lincoln
Round 39: Parchment
Round 40: Lincoln
Round 41: Cream
Round 42: Lincoln
Round 43: Cream
Round 44 and 45: Parchment
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Rounds 46 – 50: Parchment
and just in case you were wondering what it might look like in just two colours:
It could look rather sophisticated in just grey and white don’t you think?
I just saw this on my #seriescd Instagram page and it excited me so much I just had to share it with you
Since starting the doodles in my 6″ x 6″ sketch book, to travel with ,I have become immersed in continuing with a Series using a CD as a starting point. I have to do one as I wake up and can’t settle to sleep at night without doing another.
And today I got some Posca Pens in the post!
Eeek!!!!!
they show up so well on the black card – they sort of glow!
Not cheap at £14.99 for 8 pens but so worth it.
I am on my second sketch book – they each have 40 pages in them ….
On Sunday, Little Miss M and I added 2.7 miles to our target of 500 miles.
The weather has been relentlessly wet and windy since I returned from Egypt on the 5th March, so it was a relief that the sun was shining at last. But still so windy!
We parked near Kingston and walked through the woods towards the sea
Little Miss M often likes to run ahead, and found a hill that she and her siblings wanted to roll down – but it was a bit steep for that! So on we went
pushing on against the wind
to be rewarded with gorgeous views towards the Isle of Portland
and a brief stop to taste some gorse flowers, in the summer they taste like coconut – not much taste on this cold and windy March day
but the colour! That yellow just glows in the sunshine.
All the colours looked crisp and clear after the weeks of rain we have had.
Click on any photo to see it full screen.
We were battered by the wind, but did our best to stop and breathe in the colours and the elements and the sheer joy of being in such a beautiful place.
We did not go right to the end, there have been a few scary cliff falls along the coast recently especially further west at West Bay, when this happened on 15 March.
Looking East over the dry stone walls, one could catch the sound of larks singing – extraordinary delicate silver tinkling amidst the bluster of the wind.
Larks say “Summer is a-coming” to me like no other bird does and remind me of hot sunny days lying on Dorset hill tops looking up into the sky trying to see their little bodies on the wing, dark against a clear blue sky.
No lying on hilltops on Sunday though – we turned back
and this time noticed Encombe House in the valley, much of it is hidden by the trees, but can you see the pavilion looking out onto the lake with a little white boat on it?
but not before gathering some wild garlic so that my daughter could try a new Salsa Verde recipe.
In the woods Little Miss M also wanted to gather some moss and ivy and as many different leaves as she could find to take to school.
My son ( the running one) had told me about a new App that records walks and runs – so I tried it out for the first time – I haven’t quite mastered adding the photos properly, but it is a fun free App called Relive – here is our walk:
The App seemed to run my battery down very quickly so I had to turn it off before we made it to the pub. My son recorded his 46 mile run around Bristol – (yes! that is not a typo – 46 miles!!!!) a couple of weekends ago, so there must be something wrong with my phone.
We went to the Scott Arms where you can sit in the garden as gaze across at Corfe Castle – what a view!
Do click on this picture and see it bigger – we could see for miles.
Little Miss M was thrilled that she could look through the telescope and ran to tell me that she could see a person in a red jacket walking around at Corfe Castle
There is a footpath, part of the Hardy Way, that goes from Kingston to Corfe Castle and we all decided we would like to walk it on a warm summer’s day.
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Since starting the doodles in my 6″ x 6″ sketch book, 
We headed for the pub and a hot chocolate
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