Crochet along -part 2

I could easily have spent the whole of last week like this...

Sadly I had to go to work for three days!  but I did have the joy of two INSET days to stay at home and be just mum for a while.

Being at home has meant getting to evening crochet that little bit quicker and consequently doing a little bit more each evening so I feel I've made really good progress this week...

I've got enough rows done that it is deep enough to look like the beginnings of a blanket rather than a chunky scarf....

Now my original plan was to work the first 15 or so rows in the sequence advised by Lucy with the original pattern, but I'm increasingly intrigued by the way the colours are working together.  I simply wouldn't put them together in this order.  Its not that I don't like it  - I love it! but left to my own devices I'm not sure I'd be putting the colours together his way.

My usual method of colour planning is to save a length tied onto the label from the ball of yarn...

Then I lay them out and see if they sit well together, which is increasingly hard from these skinny little scraps...

and its not a whole load easier from lying the balls out in the advised colour sequence...

I'm going to need a considerably bigger dining table to work out the colour sequence this way!

So now I'm questioning all my assumptions about colour mixing and positioning - what a good job I've got some ends to sew in to distract me for an evening!

Its back to work as normal for me all next week so probably won't make such good progress next week.  Better get on and make the most of this evening  - byeee!