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I love bright, bold colors—maybe a little too much, if that's possible. So when the submission call went out for the February 2022 issue of Crochet World last April, I knew I wanted to come up with something fun for the magazine's "Scraps Delight" feature. Since I had plenty of Red Heart Super Saver in my stash, I pulled together a palette of magenta, orange, yellow, black and white, then sketched a graphic pattern and stitched up a sample swatch.
I eventually got the good news that my design had been
accepted—and that the editors liked the color combination I proposed. Yay! The
next step: creating the pillow that would be photographed for the magazine. Crochet
colorwork can be created using a variety of methods—tapestry, fair isle,
mosaic, intarsia, and others. To achieve crisp color changes in this project,
which is worked in rows, I decided to use the intarsia technique. A color-coded
chart simplifies the instructions, and bobbins keep the different yarn colors
from tangling.
Fun Fact: If you follow me here or on Instagram , you know that I design cross-stitch patterns too. I used the same software (Pattern Maker for Cross Stitch) to create the color chart for this pillow pattern.
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