Design A447 - Autumn Leaves with ecru

For the next one I focused on working on motifs made using the yellows, oranges, reds and brown colours.

Two of the orange shades are very close in colour with the one bottom right being lighter and a different tone.  In terms of how many motifs of each colour I was able to make from the leftovers are as follows, in order from top left to the bottom right:

Brown = 5 motifs, Blood Orange = 11 motifs, Buttercup yellow = 8 motifs

Daffodil yellow = 1 motif, Ecru = main, Cherry red = 14 motifs

Orange = 5 motifs, Vanilla = 11 motifs, Papaya = 9 motifs 

I again positioned the motifs so that they would mirror the left side to the right side with a central strip made up of the what was left.  

I really love the colours in this one.

Design A447 - Various shades of green with off-white

On my continuation of using up the Aran weight cotton yarn I have made a second of the vintage shawl design that I finished in early December.  I started focusing on working on motifs made using the green cotton just before Christmas and then stopped so that I could make the moss green shawl but then I got back onto it after Christmas.

Some of the green shades are very close in colour and one of them is the left overs of another shawl that I made where I overdyed some bright yellow cotton to make green.

In terms of how many motifs of each colour I was able to make from the leftovers and how many I made from the slightly larger amounts are as follows, in order from top left to the bottom right: 

Light Mint Green = 12 motifs, Moss Green = 1 motif,  Off White = main

Spearmint = 12 motifs, Green = 3 motifs, Forest = 9 motifs 

Lemon overdyed Green = 10 motifs, Green Beryl = 12 motifs, Bottle = 5 motifs

 

When I worked out the positioning of each of the colours I decided that I would mirror the left side to the right side and this left me with a central strip made up of the what was left.  It's a little bit like a butterfly - the central strip would be the body with the mirrored wings on either side.

I'm really happy with how this one turned out, even better than the first one.