Frightened of yellow

I will let you into a little secret, I am frightened of yellow. Some bloggers describe it as a happy, sunshine, harvest colour but it frightens the life out of me so I surprised myself when I picked up this teapot in a charity shop for £2. 

I never know what to put with yellow, whether a shade of yellow is garish or simply bright. I once used a mustard colour in my hexie blanket but I like to think of that as light brown. Why I wonder?

Anyway, I had a little bit of a ball of yellow which I only keep in my stash to make the centre of flowers and little daffodils should the mood take me so I decided to go all out on colour - why shouldn't I? - I have just admitted I have no idea what goes with yellow!!

I have a little collection of flowers which live on my pattern basket. When I get to a ball end I make up flowers with the rest and pin them to the basket where I keep my pattern books.

When the basket is full or I need a flower I can whip one or two off, it is like a woolly florist.

Hooray! a big teapot for my Tuesday crochet group. There are eight enthusiasts now and I need a bigger teapot. My next beginners class is on Monday 28th April at 1pm if you live in Shropshire. 

Message me if you are interested.

Thanks for looking. Jo x

Hooray! Sedge Stitch Infinity Scarf

Linking up with Marianne and Chrissie with their CAL today to show you my sedge stitch infinity scarf. I have been playing around with the length of this scarf for a while and I think I have it right now. I am not a massive fan of the cowl, it sort of neither keeps my neck warm because it is too baggy or doesn't seem to hang and fold exactly where I want them to so I designed this.

 It used the sedge stitch that I really enjoyed doing from the man blanket. It is great for this type of scarf because the pattern appears diagonally so it looks like it is spiraling round your neck.

To stop it being too curly and plain, I added the border on the top and bottom similar to the one I did on the Elise shawl. On each point is a ceramic Greek washer bead from beadsite. (I love their beads) The colour match was really good and I mixed them in with some others I had left over from a previous project to make up the 164 I needed.

Did I write the pattern down? Sort of but I need to do another one to double check. I did not choose this yarn, it was given to me so now I know it is what I want I can go on ahead and choose another yarn to give it a proper go.

Do you like it? What are you crocheting at the moment?

Jo xx