Just before Christmas I had finished up all my WIP's and was undecided what to do next. We were having some lovely rainy weather - a good time to tackle the Chunky project. Something quick and easy - not requiring too much thought or effort - or so I thought!
Was I in for a surprise?
I tried hook after hook size - before finally settling on a 7.00mm. Then I tried out pattern after pattern after pattern after ..... Nothing seemed right!
I tried squares - nope. A big granny - nope. A ripple - nope. Granny stripe - nope. Diagonal granny - nope. Box stitch - nope. Diagonal box stitch - nope.
At that juncture I was - extremely annoyed and worked up!
I was NOT going to pack the chunky away - I WAS going to best it (the deciding factor here was that after removing all that chunky from my yarn cupboard and rearranging the rest of my stash quite satisfactorily I had NO intention of trying to get the chunky back into the cupboard!)
Eventually out of sheer desperation I tried a plain old double crochet stripe. Not too bad after a couple of rows....... and then it started taking shape. So easy and quite nicely textured. I calmed down and started enjoying the project.
I worked up row after row in mauve, blue and grey.
Bordered it with a few rows of single crochet and gave it a nice bobble fringe (about twelve hours work start to finish - what a bargain!)
Even with the border the double crochet stripe was a bit boring - and so taking inspiration from my lovely popcorn cushion, I made heaps of yellow flowers, orange flowers and lime green leaves.
Appliqued them on to the bottom and top corner:
It fits quite nicely on a 3/4 bed (had to fold it to get the flowers in the photo).
Must say I am rather delighted with it!