What I’m doing now

Hi crochet friends

The ripple stitch cushion I started earlier in April is finished! I made using left over wools from my big wool basket. As soon as I’d set the cushion on the window seat next to my patchwork crochet cushion I realised that many of the colours I’d used for the ripple stitch cushion where in the patchwork cushion. Even though the designs are completely different using some of the same colours means the two cushions  look lovely together.

With nothing to crochet on a rainy afternoon in May, I looked in my wool basket . There were  numerous odd balls of different coloured wool  so I settled to use them all up. I rummaged around and some of the same colours as the patchwork and ripple stitch cushion where there with a few more shades. So I decided to make a couple of cushions in different designs using the same colours.

The cushions are for the lounge. For so long I’ve been making stuff for everyone else I thought it was time for me. I get bored with one design so all the cushions will be different but the colours of each will all tie together.  As always colour combinations make the design effect completely different.

The lounge of our cottage can be quite dark, but my favourite part of the lounge, the big Georgian window that looks out onto the front lawn brings afternoon sun in. Under the window we have a large chest that  Sam the dog loves to sit on.

Back to the cupboard next to the fireplace where I keep my crochet books, but no ideas jumped out. On to Pinterest where I found the ‘circle of friends’ motif in various colour ways. It's an unusual pattern as it looks good on both the 'right' and the 'wrong' side.

When the showers stopped I went into the garden with the dogs and we sat on the covered seat and I began to make the first motif. I have been crocheting for many years but I don't usually get the first motif right. A few goes before I got the colour combinations I wanted.

I know that most people make all the motifs first and pile them up neatly but this drives me mad. I have to see what the finished item will look like or at least get some idea. In the past this has saved me time as I have either discovered faults with my design or I don't like the finished result. When I had made four motifs of the circle of friends complete I stitched them together.

It looks quite good, but somehow lacks that extra bit of sparkle I like, so I am going to crochet an edging around it, using some of the colours in the motifs. One colour per row and I think I'll either do a raised shell or a raised double crochet border.

After a perfect afternoon in the garden the first butterfly I'd seen this year flew across the comfrey plants.....

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