Custom order inspiration

My customer offered this wool blanket to show his color preferences.

In my previous post, I featured two “cousin” rugs that made up a custom order. The rugs were going to be used in the same bathroom, but one rug was to be a square and one a rectangle. As I played with pencil sketches, I found the stripes needed to be different proportions depending on the shape.

The customer had a beautiful wool blanket, pictured above, as a color guide. The challenge was to translate that to polyester, since I had a vintage Lady Pepperell blanket that would be the base fabric with its Adobe-ish color. Most of the rest of the fabric was polar fleece I was reusing from a variety of sources: a blanket, a pullover top, even a slanket, that sleeping bag/blanket combo to be worn when you curl up on the couch.