I love color.
Around here [and much of this region], the houses (and people) share an overwhelming preference for beige. Houses are varying shades of neutrals. The interior decor is dominated by neutrals--just "in case" the homeowners want to sell. Bah humbug, I say!
If you must keep your neutral wall color, make everything as bright and garish as you possibly can. After all, we live in a winter dark environment. Even at mid-day, the sun is so far tilted toward the south that it shouldn't be considered "overhead."
I rebel against the beige-people!
What is the most garish and non-"Martha Stewart aesthetic" thing a family can have in its possession? A granny square blanket.
That's right. A zillion color mash of yarn. Nothing says love like a granny! [If you don't believe me, go check out this blog and see if you don't LOVE the wild colors. They make you happy.] Traditionally, these are made to keep the family warm during the winter, but also to use up yarn leftovers--kind of like a crazy quilt uses leftover fabric scraps.
So I have a bunch of "I love this yarn!" from Hobby Lobby and am doing my own wild color mash. I planned on creating a granny square that kept growing without binding off to small 5 or 6 round squares because I didn't want to stitch them together. While I hit the end of my first color-go-round, I briefly considered making blocks because this was going to get very large...
These pictures were taken a few days ago and the blanket has grown several rows since then. But I absolutely adore it. There is no rhyme or reason in the color selection, I just grab a yarn and run with it. It is going to be wonderful!
I also am headed to my local yarn store (LYS) this afternoon because the yarn for my Selbu mittens came in. Yay, new yarn!
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