Bergere de France
Ideal
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 and
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. This is where I found the motifs I needed. http://amzn.to/1kC4tXB
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 these caught my eye.
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.
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