The story of a Starry Night (part 2)

After sitting in the bucket for rather a long time, the Starry Night project was let back out. However, instead of carrying on with the original project, the Designer started again.

The large stars were worked in the way as before but the joining was worked a little differently.

The other difference was that, instead of using Custard to create "The Starry Sky" part of the shawl, she used the outside of Banana Cream Hi. This meant that it gradually turned darker as it reached the top. This looked much more sky-like that the pale lavender of Custard and the Designer was happy with the finished effect. Next, the inside of Banana Cream Hi was used to carry on underneath the big stars and create the mountains.

The colours of the yarn fell perfectly into place and looked just like the sky between the stars and the mountains in the original painting. The Designer was very happy with this.

Banana Cream Hi was finally almost gone so it was now the turn of Custards replacement, Bilberry. Bilberry is a deep rich navy and much better suited to creating the buildings nestled underneath the mountains. As buildings were a bit difficult to create, the Designer came up with creating the illusion of buildings by just making "windows".

This worked well and, at last, the Designer was ready to complete the creation with a Sparkly Starry fringe! The next job was the blocking and photoshoot but that story will have to wait for another day!