Friday 15 October 2010

Crochet Colours.

Hello!

This will be my last African Flower Blanket post till it's really finished, I promise!

I just wanted to show it in a different light. Normally I take the blanket outside to photograph as, obviously, there's much more natural light available. However, it does have the effect of emphasising the blue tones. My blanket does have quite a lot of blue in it but it's not as overpowering as my pictures to date have shown.

So, here is a photo of it taken at about 11pm last night after I'd sewn in a few more ends while watching Autumn Watch & Mock The Week...

A fairly balanced combination of mellow purples, greens, yellows, reds, pinks, browns and yes blues, though blue is certainly not the dominating colour. For comparison here is the blanket from exactly the same viewpoint but the photo was taken outside on a recent sunny afternoon...

So what does it really look like? Well, normally the blanket is indoors, so I guess the first photo is actually the closest though the lighting when I took it was really poor. When I finally do my Ta Da post I'll try to achieve true colours. I've a craft night tonight so will get a few more ends sewn in then I'm afraid I'll need to leave the blanket aside for a while as I'll be starting to work on making things to sell at the forthcoming school fair at the end of November. More on those later...

For those of you who like to use Flickr, photos of crochet seem to be popular with Explore.

I recently had five photos in (one has since been dropped). I'm just away to add the two blanket photos from this post to see how they do.

12 comments:

Erica said...

I can't get over how beautiful that blanket is!!! What a lot of work. I too love the way it looks different under various lighting. What a marvelous creation! :-)

periwinkle said...

they look like two completely different blankets .......

Funkymonkey said...

I can't believe how different the blanket looks in a different light.It's very beautiful.

Tracey

rockinloubylou said...

That's an amazing difference in the blanket photos. Must check out Flickr to see more of your work.

Unknown said...

Lighting and different cameras can really affect the color. I have a few skeins of I made to sell a few years ago and never listed them as I couldn't get a correct photo of the colors. So frustrating.

That afghan is really beautiful.

Esther said...

This is looking really fantastic!

silverpebble said...

Oh goodness, your blanket is looking even more stunning than ever. It is a work of art Anne. Truly beautiful

Marie said...

Your blanket is amazing, and it looks gorgeous in both lights; I think you have been very restrained in your posts, I'd have gone on and on about such a work of art!!

Annemarie's Haakblog said...

Oh this is sooo amazing! This is the most gorgeous blanket I have EVER seen. That must have sooo much work!! If you like, come visit my Link Pary that's on my blog every Saturday. I would really like it if you add something.
Bye!
Annemarie

...Nina Nixon... said...

It's gorgeous and I love how it changes colour - a lot of hard work and love.

Have a fabulous weekend,

Nina xxx

Hazel said...

Love it!! xx

Svanvithe said...

I like the beautiful crochet blanket so much.

Many greetings

Anke

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