Celtic coat progress

I've been doing a bit of research for when all the squares are done and I need to start joining them all into something resembling the shape of a coat.

Celtic tiles coat - the one that went wrong

I needed just one more square in silver grey and was two thirds through when I realised that I wouldn't have enough yarn!

Never mind, I thought, I will do a half red, half silver one. And it was looking good, though I wasn't sure if the red would last out either. 

When I ran out of red I went back to using the last few grammes of silver grey with my fingers crossed it would last till the final row. Phew! 

For the edge I opted to use emerald green, as I will be doing a round of green on each square before also joining them all into a coat with the green also. 

And the end result was surprising to me. I had in mind the Japanese Wabi-sabi way of finding beauty in flaws as a way of accepting this square as a unique one amongst the rest. And it may well end up being my favourite square. 

This is the square being blocked before all the ends are sewn in. 

Celtic tiles coat - the beginning

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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