FreeForm Vest: Homes and Healing

I've been very productive, a surge of creativity sparked by the daily make and learn that was National Crochet Month this year.  The triptych and its oddments called out for more, and I've been compelled and impelled to oblige, sometimes foregoing sleep to work out an idea.

The slo burn was to create a "quick" freeform piece comprised of  my newly evolved
motifs: houses, wings and a return to flat dolls. I had several motifs already in the deliciously cream with  undertones of butter, Cloud. I knew I wanted to make my take on the Russian leaves,  and leaf-making approach -- mainly the ones that aren't like anything I've ever seen, not even Irish Crochet, those are in one of my favorite Elann colors 1477-- a subdued yellow green. Then, for dark there is the evocative Fairytale, a sort of burgundy meets pink, red grape meets raspberry, luscious. And I wanted a yellow. So here's where i pause.

I didn't want to place an order and needed just one skein of a light yellow. Honey
in Knit Picks merino looked just right on the screen. So i bought it from a Raveler.
When it arrived it was much more intense a yellow that on screen, but i pushed ahead and made motifs in.

Suddenly the balance of the narrative was off. Yes, yes, I wanted yellow, but this one
white it worked fine with the cream and the green, it undid the pinks and raspberrys.

And I came to the hard decision to not use it.

Removing all the place the shapes filled, hurt.  But the glowing, Crayola pile
of  these nearly school bus-colored bits, assured me that  it was only the commitment to push my color boundaries that made me include it.

If it were for art, I would have left them in, but  I knew they would burn and itch
and annoy me over time... I don't know why but they just didn't fit.

So now my quick project will take longer than I hoped.  Yet,
I'm learning as I go -- and the project gave me several new patterns
that I'll discuss in greater detail in another post: houses, wings, new leaves, flat dolls.

More Russian Inspirations

Sometime my heart is touched and affirmed
by the creations that span and bind this wide world.
Such that discovery is an education in possibilities
ever unfolding applications of the same stitch
how fathomless sequence delivers new depth
of shape, new forms of the familiar

So the Russian returns me to the Irish in Crochet
as does the Japanese.

This page is full of wonderful flowers. 

http://domihobby.ru/455-obemnye-cvety.html 

I've made two of them:

Flower #5

April! March Reverberates. Duplet Inspires!

The International FreeForm Crochet Along and my preparation for the international freeform association's annual challenge continues to keep me hopping.

I had hoped to post my progress on the NatCroMo experience here-- but I was too deeply immersed. If you would like to see pictures of the experience they're here on my Ravelry project page.

 I am still drinking deep of the crochet elixir that is Duplet magazine.

Here's my latest deciphering, that i just realized is not 100% what was written, so
I intend to make another. It's show with an E hook and Worsted weight yarn.
Just what a leaf lover like me enjoys!