Yes definitely another blue, it needs to be a vintage blue. White will shout at you and make the cream look mucky, I think. Another cream would help to make the centre draw the eye.
A lighter blue may be nice to match the light blue flowers on the second row from the middle? Are you doing the background in one colour? Maybe mixing a darker vintage blue with a lighter blue? What ever you choose it will still look great.
Do you buy fabric online or from a shop? I only buy from shops (so I get to stroke all the fabric 😁.) I’d take some fabric with me to colour match and try to get a look at it in day light not yellow shop lights.
I really like your quilt so far, it’s going to be lovely when you’re finished 😀.
Iv just finished this crochet hat (well finished making and sewing the Pom Pom on). It was one of my PHD’s (projects half done) of which I have many 😀. The yarn was a ‘cake’ style ball from Aldi, it came with a knitting pattern, I’d done most of the knitted hat then decided I didn’t like it so undid it and crocheted this instead. Thank goodness Iv got my granny’s wool winder 😁.
@Jacquimcmahon, agree with SherwoodArrow. Definitely not white ( or cream) but a duller, more airforce blue, or maybe even a slate grey - hard to tell just seeing the colours in a photo. It looks really lovely so far. Great hat, SherwoodArrow, that has reminded me I need to unpick a hat I knitted during the summer, which turned out to be miles too big! A wonderful painting, BlueOnion, you are really talented! You had better do a second one so that both boys can have one in the future!
Thanks I think you are right about another shade of blue. I usually buy from a shop, but the large piece of blue was a gift, just turns out to be too bright a blue. I love the hat SherwoodArrow, is the rib knitted or crochet too, I’ve not managed a crochet rib, always turns out too slack, brilliant Pom Pom love how the colors came out.
Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
Thanks, Jac 🙂. It is crocheted, the band is done in the back loops only, this makes the rib effect. I find starting with the band and working in the round up to the top means I can get the size better as I can keep trying it on. 🙂
Edit- If I’m doing a crocheted hat top down to rim I do head circumference measurement divided by 3.14 (pi) this gives you the diameter. You increase until you have this measurement and always round down, Crochet stretches. It works in cm and in inch’s. Working from the rim up to the top I just put it on. 🙂
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A lighter blue may be nice to match the light blue flowers on the second row from the middle? Are you doing the background in one colour? Maybe mixing a darker vintage blue with a lighter blue? What ever you choose it will still look great.
Do you buy fabric online or from a shop? I only buy from shops (so I get to stroke all the fabric 😁.) I’d take some fabric with me to colour match and try to get a look at it in day light not yellow shop lights.
I really like your quilt so far, it’s going to be lovely when you’re finished 😀.
Failure is always an option.
Failure is always an option.
It looks really lovely so far.
Great hat, SherwoodArrow, that has reminded me I need to unpick a hat I knitted during the summer, which turned out to be miles too big!
A wonderful painting, BlueOnion, you are really talented! You had better do a second one so that both boys can have one in the future!
Edit- If I’m doing a crocheted hat top down to rim I do head circumference measurement divided by 3.14 (pi) this gives you the diameter. You increase until you have this measurement and always round down, Crochet stretches. It works in cm and in inch’s. Working from the rim up to the top I just put it on. 🙂
Failure is always an option.
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Here is a watercolour pencil I did this evening:
Luxembourg
Luxembourg