Thanks for all of the comments and suggestions on the colours I've chosen for my blanket, what a lot of diverse opinions! Good job I only have to worry about pleasing myself 😉

I like Sarah's view about colour – it is all about how colours make us feel and that's a wonderfully subjective thing. Previously I felt jangly when I was looking at what I'd made, but now the citron has gone from the colour scheme I feel calmness. Whilst I liked the citron on it's own, I felt it had a strong influence on the surrounding colours and it changed the overall feel, so it's being replaced with a shade of blue-ish grey called 'clear' that I had bought for elephant knitting. I was too impatient to ponder any longer so I took the re-usable blocks and after spending yesterday's knitting time crocheting instead I now have this…

'Me old china' won't be a bright and colourful summer's day blanket (which is how I feel about my flowers in the snow) but more something to snuggle in on a cold and wet thursday afternoon in October when you're feeling a little melancholy, while listening to something like this.

I am not sad to unpick the blocks with citron in because I know that the result will be worth it for me. I'm lucky that although I'd woven in the ends I'd not got around to trimming them off so each round of yarn that I unpick is completely re-usable and I'm bagging them up in round order so that re-using them is easy.

Now I feel comfortable again with making my 'one square a day' each evening. But by day I'll be working hard to get this lot finished.

Yes, all the little headless animals are gradually each getting a body and clothes – it's just a bit of a jigsaw puzzle working out which outfit goes best with which head!

I know there's not really any such thing as a crochet crisis, but if there was I would be having one right now because (deep breath)…

…I am just not feeling the love for 'me old china' blanket  😦

 
Something about the colours feels wrong to me and I have a feeling it's that yellowy green "citron". I think it's too bright for my taste and the overall effect is too colourful and chaotic and just isn't what I was after. It's often the way isn't it, that something looks good on paper but in practice doesn't quite work out as planned.

What to do about it though? Unpick all my hard work or press on regardless and not be happy with it when it's finished? I will be having a crochet pause while I ponder, and turning to my knitting for solace which is good news for all of those body-less animal heads!