I first came across this lovely soft yarn at my local farmers market one cold autumn day in 2012. I crochet all year round, but come the autumn I love a big project for the dark and cold winter nights. A throw to cover my dining room basket chairs would be good! A basket full of colours on the stall was irresistible to me. I took home 6 balls each a different colour to experiment with.
Using a 3.25 size hook I tried out a few circular motifs from memory including a traditional granny square, which with clever use of colours could have looked really good. But I wanted something to challenge me, so out came the books , cuttings and patterns from my craft cupboard.
Jan Eatons book, 200 crochet blocks gave me the inspiration I needed. I like to do projects that include challenging patterns with repetitive bits I can do when I'm tired. I tried out several motifs but the combination of 'popcorn flower', 'alternate bobbles', 'sunshine and flowers', 'and 'lacy cross' were the ones I loved the best. I also created my own version of bobbles and a raised flower square for the corners.
For such a big project the colours had to be right. I love autumn colours so brown, rust, copper came to my mind. Taking the dogs into the garden one day in October a bright sun lit the trees with golden yellows, deep browns and sludgy green browns. Amazingly the little stream that runs through the village and passes by our cottage sparkled a lovely bright blue in the sparkling sun. These are the colours I chose, brown, golden yellow, sludgy brown and bright blue.
Beregere de France provided the golden yellow(girolle), brown (elephant) and blue (myosotis). I love combining more than one yarn to throws and cushions it adds interest and is more fun to crochet. A bit of research online and I found a double knitting sock yarn online that had a mixed yarn that included sludgy brown and blue.
Making the throw I loved using soft Bergere de France. It comes in loads of lovely bright colours, but you can see how I used more subtle colours to create my favourite patchwork cushion.
To begin with I made one motif in each colour and decided to use the sock yarn only for this motif. Then out with the graph paper and I came up with my design. This is an oblong and features a diagonal of the same motifs which I think looks really good and you can see in the image.
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