So I have been noodling around with this one for, oh, six months now. Trying out different designs and color combinations and just not finding anything that really got me excited, although in the process I’ve had fun and learned lots.
I started out with some of my favorite colors - teals and purples and made a couple of pentagon circles.
That really didn’t go anywhere, although I like the color combinations.
I made more progress on my next iteration, but still just wasn’t feeling it. Then I ordered a color card for the Scheepjes Terrazzo yarn, which helped my design process immeasurably.
Next I thought I would try a gradient of pinks for my background. But that wasn’t sparking me either. I had printed out an asymmetric grid (no motifs) to keep track of my progress on this last go and as I was working I just became fascinated by the shapes and how they interacted. So I went back to basics and decided to kick it old school. I printed out another asymmetric grid and got out my colored pencils and made the design in the first picture. No motifs, just shapes and colors. In the end I decided on just six shapes - pentagon 1 (I love making these, they are like potato chip crochet), stars, boats, diamonds, medallions and mandalas. No small flowers, no 5-petal flowers, no 10-petal flowers. Instead of small flowers, I’m using pentagons in that shape. The next challenge was the colors for those. I had decided I wanted a central pentagon with a green frame, and then 5 petal pentagons with a blue frame. My first attempt at the colors wasn’t quite right.
I ordered some more colors and they came yesterday and last night I started yet again.
Finally something that got me smiling and nodding “yes!”. I’m even going to be able to use those pink pentagons that I made. I’m not sure what to do with all those other attempts. I suppose I could turn them in to dodecahedrons.
Pattern: Tessellation Nation by Sue Maton
Yarn: Scheepjes Terrazzo
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