Happy Circles – A new pattern

New Year – new wall decorations

It is already mid January and I hope you had a great start in the new year! Hubby and I got off to a very cosy start.
After that, however, we started renovating another room in our house – just in keeping with the theme of new beginnings.
We want a new insulated floor – the same one we have already laid in the living room and hallway. After that there will be new cupboards. So again, it looks a bit chaotic here at the moment. Never ending story …

However, within all the renovation stuff, we have a new wall decoration in our living room! But of course these are not the result of our renovation work but of my colour experiments last year.

My colour experiment in 2024

You may remember that last year I experimented a little with random colour placement. This project really opened my eyes to new ways of combining colours.

But instead of manually compiling all possible colour combinations in a table, I tried an online random generator, Random.org . They offer a lot of free services, including a list randomizer. It works wonderfully for generating random colour combinations. I described in detail how this works in an earlier post. You can read all about it here

I needed a bit of colour – Colour Experiment Part 1

My first Panel

To try out the random colour combinations, I started crocheting little circles. Each with 3 rounds. In doing so, I have strictly adhered to the results that the random colour generator had given me. I only replaced a colour if it would otherwise have appeared twice in a circle. In the end, this resulted in 25 colourful circles, which I then turned into small squares. I joined them in a 5 x 5 layout. To determine the exact arrangement of the squares, I also used the random generator.

Details on my colour placement and layout can be found in this post

Random Layout – Colour Experiment Part 2

After adding a small border my finished panel was about 52 x 52 cm.

At first I had thought of making a cushion cover out of it. But then I decided to use it as a wall decoration.

My second Panel

Overall, I was so thrilled with the result that I have since made a second panel.

I used the same colours and the same process as with the first panel. The colour combinations are completely different, but it looks just as great.

Here the results:

The table below shows the colour combinations that I have used for my second panel. The colours are listed for each circle in the order of rounds 1, 2 and 3. As for my first panel each circle was squared with two more rounds in the colour Graphite.
At the same time, the table shows the layout in which I have arranged the squares. 

I had already listed the pattern for the squares, joining, and border in a separate post. If you are interested you can find it here

Step by step – A new wall decoration – Colour experiment Part 3

But in addition, I have now written down the pattern again and summarised it in a pdf file. Besides the actual pattern, this document contains the colour combinations and layouts for both panels.
So you can also download the complete file here.

Please note: Some left over yarns and 1 ball of Stylecraft Special DK for squaring and joining are sufficient for one panel.

I hope you like it as much as I did!

Have a lovely time 💕