Lookit what came in the mail this week!
Remember when I was short one ball of yarn for my current blanket and couldn't see paying shipping from England for just the one ball, and thereby justified buying everything I needed for an upstairs blanket? Well, that's what this giant gauzy muslin bag from Wool Warehouse is about. It's so jammed with blues and greens you can't see the red, but it's in there!
It's always such a gamble trying to match anything to the upholstery and curtains in our main bedroom and my tiny office upstairs. There's a sofa in each room, both done in the weirdest blue which I would have called navy until I saw navy on it, and the same drapes, which also have a lot of strange colours in the blue and creamy floral print.
But darned if I didn't nail it with the slightly teal 'Mallard Blue' which is close enough for both fabrics without actually clashing.
I couldn't be happier unless I was actually working on this thing.
See what I mean? These colours are tumbling around on this curtain-print sofa cushion like they're already at home. It's gonna be so good!
Here are more glamour pairings with the drapery fabric. The grey beige of Parchment that matches one of the two stem colours, with the cream, called Cream, that matches the background...
And the grey beige that doesn't quite scream at the mushy peas green (aptly called Mushy Peas) that traces the stems and dominates the leaves.
And how about a closeup of Mushy Peas with the curling vines on the drapes?
These five colours were to be the lineup for this blanket - a lighter sea blue called North Sea, a grey beige, a cream, mushy peas green, and the teal blue:
But I have this other pale blue colour from an early shopping spree called Duck Egg, which also matches part of the curtain print... the pear shaped bit just to the right of this ball.
It seems to be friendly enough with the other two blues.
It's also from the other mill that used to make this yarn, and therefore it has the shinier element I don't really like messing around with the matte finish of the other colours. So I'm thinking maybe it could be a border? Or if I opt for a granny square blanket, the yarn I use to piece it all together?
Or maybe I should leave it out entirely, and use it with the leftover blues in some other small projects for these two rooms.
SO many possibilities. And so much work to do before I get to pursue them!
Hope your weekend is full of fun or comfort, and thank you as always for spending a bit of it with me. See you next Saturday, hopefully with something that isn't a blanket.
(but no promises, heh.)
