color inspiration

April 1, 2013 by elisabeth andrée 12 Comments

hopefully you had a cozy and warm (easter) weekend.

just before the yellow yarn seduced me to purchase it ;), i was busy with choosing colors for a new pouf. yet another poof, you may think, but the gray one ‘has left me’ to live with my youngest brother. the large purple pouf is still waiting for someone who likes to have it. for the summer to come, i have another, somewhat softer color scheme in mind, the warm woolly cushion covers i will wash, fold and put in the closet.

 

 

for the new pouf i last year bought yarn in a beautiful combination of colors, i think…

but after a few rows i stopped, because i can not work with it and i was frustrated. this yarn does not split a little bit but it splits in a terrible way, i will keep it in a box until i know what i can do with it.

 

luckily at the beginning of this year a web shop had a sale and i bought cabotine phildar, a bleached peachy color (second from the left), it is almost a neutral shade.  so i was looking for what i thought was a nice combination with similar yarn from my stash and i thought about embroider decorative stitches on the cover too.

i had put it aside for a while and looked on facebook and there was just posted a photo by someone whose work i admire for a couple of years. the colors resembled those of my yarn and her work looked so beautiful. i sent her a message to ask if i could post her photo on my blog and within half an hour i had a positive response including the picture.

i love it! thanks for the image karen barbé!

 

my plan is this: i crochet the cover uni-colored and then decorate it with embroidery stitches in various shades. see also this pillow cover

will be continued…

karen barbé

for more info about karen barbé’s work see her website via this link: blog.karenbarbe.com

or her facebook page via this link: facebook.com/karenbarbe.textileria

she has also beautiful tutorials and this is one of them: creative-mending

have a great week!

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