Mr CTL needs a new jacket for prowling around the veggie plot here at Crow Tree Lane. He liked the celtic tiles that lillabjorncrochet.com used for her Celtic Tiles Blanket, so I have decided to work the tiles in double knit yarn that was already in my stash and create a bespoke coat for him.
It started out as a rough sketch like this:
As you can see, the rough work keeps getting adjusted as I work through the design in my head. But I like to keep all my ideas and thoughts as they may prove useful later on.
So far I just have a lot of squares in varying shades of red, blue and silver. I did give in and buy some emerald green in the same yarn for the background /joining yarn. However, I couldn't resist making some green squares to add into the mix as well!
And I have added 4 plain versions of the squares without the celtic overlay to make some double pockets too.
The main photograph at the top of this post gives a feel of how the coat may eventually look when it comes together.
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