My first one was made in odd acrylic and I really love these colours together!
I have been having some fun with these, once I worked out the pattern I found they were actually fairly simple to make. They hold their shape well too, they are a hexagonal granny square.
Then I decided to make a cotton table mat but I needed red cotton, as my dining room has a red theme to it. So I bought a ball of Wendy cotton supreme from my local store, C & H and tried out a few with the various cotton oddments of yarn I could find. I wanted the entire mat out of cotton so it could be washed easily and would be absorbent. It would also hold it’s shape more.
Playing around with the colour scheme!
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Here are a few that I tried, I was a bit limited by what colours of cotton I had. I did red and pink and orange and just wasn’t very keen on the outcome, then I thought I’d do a simple flower using only red and white.
My favourite, simple and stunning.
I liked the effect, less colourful but amazing contrast so I decided to use red and white only for my mat. It was very beautiful.
And then I made more
and more
Three flowers made, I wanted seven. A central one, with six on the outside.
This was it once joined together, I decided it needed a little border and then it was done.
Ta-Daaaa!
Here it is finished with a candle holder in the centre! Now I’ve got another four to make, one for the center of the table and one each for our glasses. I’m debating doing a bigger one with an extra round of stars for the plates.
Okay, I actually changed my mind and added another border…
So this is the final finished thing, now to make a couple more. If you want to play around with these the pattern can be found here in English, Spanish and Dutch. There’s also other projects you can make with this, a hippo, a bear. The only downside is that it uses American terms, but it’s okay to translate and even has a photo tutorial.
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