Green green green!

So, in my quest to fix the stalled hexagon project, I ordered two clear green yarns -- one apple-ish, one leaf-ish -- to see if they'd round out the current color scheme. Indeed, they worked perfectly.

The only problem... it's impossible to photograph the colors accurately with my little digital camera. Depending on where I shoot the picture, I either get strong yellow overtones or strong blue ones. (And despite my best efforts in Photoshop, I just can't compensate.) So I have no convincing evidence to show you all that the middle-range, leafy green is going to make perfect borders around each hexagon. But take my word on it, this will work.

So yes. Green borders around each piece will both bring the design into better focus, because there won't be such a relentlessly WILD color scheme that shatters your eye into chaos as you look it over. Here's what I'm sort of envisioning for the piece:

The green background just bring stabilizes the colorway. You notice the floral-ish designs of the hexagons without them screaming in a mad chorus for attention.

Now, I also got an apple-ish green as well, but it didn't work as a background color. However, it'll be very nice as another color to work into the hexagons itself.

The final question: what am I going to do with this piece?

When I first found instructions for the hexagon motif, they all instructed to join the modules as you went, so that each piece is inextricably crocheted together with its neighbor. As you can see, I got about 10 motifs in and decided to trash that idea. It frustrated me. I wanted to do each motif separately and then arrange them into a final piece all at once.

If I do green borders around each hexagon now, these 10.5 units are, well, useless. But I hate to just throw the thing away. So kind readers, do you have any ideas what I could do with it?

Comments

[Cleo]

Catnip toys! For the Ziggy!

[DJ]

Add a few more hexagons, make a drawstring bag (with lining) to have for small projects?

[Elizabeth]

Finish a few more hexes and have a cat mat? A seat mat for the car to protect your legs-in-shorts from sticking to the car seat in the summer sun? An antimacassar? A summer place mat for a picnic table?

[Andrea]

Can you make a few more and have it as the front of a pillow? Use a leaf green fabric as the backing and it will look great with your blanket...