When I mentioned ‘frogging’ to a friend the other day I was met by a blank stare.  However, when I then said ‘Rippit, Rippit’  the blank stare turned to enlightenment, and sympathy. 

There’s been a lot of ripping involved with my latest cushion.  It’s not that I haven’t knitted fair isle before, but I’ve not had a palette of seventeen colours, and I wasn’t changing the background colours as well as the pattern colours.  I’m blaming Kaffe Fassett and his book Pattern Library.  I think he has a special sort of brain that doesn’t get boggled, because boggled my own brain certainly became. 

The crochet cushions are the same back and front, but I didn’t think  my sanity would last long enough to knit both sides, so I dug out some needlecord in a really pretty blue and some gorgeous red wooden buttons which I think work well.

Too late I noticed I’ve got the nap of the needlecord running both ways which makes one side darker than the other, but I’ve decided it’s a design feature!

So, would you like to see it? Here’s a little hint…

…and another…

This is the reverse side!

…and that’s quite pretty too, but here is the finished article…

I have two more little cushion pads left so I’m having a ponder about what I do next. There are  the lovely grandala ideas over on Crochet with Raymond, I could do Lucy’s granny stripe, zigzags might be fun…

In the mean time I have been resting my eyes from all that colour with some pristine white cotton crochet, another bunting experiment. I have resisted so far because I’ve seen lots of other versions of crochet bunting but I deliberately didn’t look too closely at anyone else’s so I could invent my own take on it.  So far, I’m liking it…

Well it must be time to finish blogging, if only because Henry the cat has come to sit on the keyboard and I can only access some of the keys.  Have a lovely weekend…x