I've been spending a lot of time in my garden during lockdown and made some changes. I'll do a seperate post this week to show you some before, during and after photos. Not quite Chelsea Flower Show but it really did need a good tidy up and having lots of extra time whilst being furloughed was the prompt I needed!
Anyway whilst sitting in the garden waiting for my chairs to dry, I realised the colours in my agapathus plants were going to look great against my newly painted grey chairs. I have four pots and all with lots of buds. A splash of colour was needed, a new cushion was the perfect choice.
With my love of granny squares and feeling the urge to revisit my mustard granny cushion pattern (funny using your own pattern after such a long time). But this time I've gone for colours in the plants in my garden pots and hanging baskets, even my cacti plants are flowering. They obviously don't mind being neglected all winter. With flowers in mind I used the flower motif from the pattern I tested back in Feb/March and used this for the starting point on the front of the cushion. The back is a colourful granny square edged in pale denim.
I loved the colour combination on the back so much that I am definetely going to start a blanket in the same colours. The great thing about the cushion is you can use both sides! So here are some photos taking during and after. Hope you like it.
All Stylecraft Special DK, colour lists are as follows:
BACK
Turquoise
Aster
Sherbert
Buttermilk
Fondant
Pistachio
Spice
Parma Violet
Storm Blue
Mustard
Denim (Cygnet Yarns)
Clematis
Silver
Bluebell
Duck Egg
Candyfloss
FRONT
Wisteria (flower motif granny square)
Duck Egg
Clematis
Denim (Cygnet Yarns)
Mushroom
Storm Blue
Bluebell
Pale Rose
Duck Egg
Buttermilk
Fondant
Sage
Wisteria
Candyfloss
all joined with Denim (Cygnet Yarns) available from Knitting Network
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| the front of my flower cushion |
Anyway whilst sitting in the garden waiting for my chairs to dry, I realised the colours in my agapathus plants were going to look great against my newly painted grey chairs. I have four pots and all with lots of buds. A splash of colour was needed, a new cushion was the perfect choice.
With my love of granny squares and feeling the urge to revisit my mustard granny cushion pattern (funny using your own pattern after such a long time). But this time I've gone for colours in the plants in my garden pots and hanging baskets, even my cacti plants are flowering. They obviously don't mind being neglected all winter. With flowers in mind I used the flower motif from the pattern I tested back in Feb/March and used this for the starting point on the front of the cushion. The back is a colourful granny square edged in pale denim.
I loved the colour combination on the back so much that I am definetely going to start a blanket in the same colours. The great thing about the cushion is you can use both sides! So here are some photos taking during and after. Hope you like it.
All Stylecraft Special DK, colour lists are as follows:
BACK
Turquoise
Aster
Sherbert
Buttermilk
Fondant
Pistachio
Spice
Parma Violet
Storm Blue
Mustard
Denim (Cygnet Yarns)
Clematis
Silver
Bluebell
Duck Egg
Candyfloss
FRONT
Wisteria (flower motif granny square)
Duck Egg
Clematis
Denim (Cygnet Yarns)
Mushroom
Storm Blue
Bluebell
Pale Rose
Duck Egg
Buttermilk
Fondant
Sage
Wisteria
Candyfloss
all joined with Denim (Cygnet Yarns) available from Knitting Network
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