Mumsy Heads
At the end of April 2007, I turned in the last of the flowers and projects for Crochet Bouquet, and I was one happy gal!
Linda Kopp, my editor and Stacey Budge, the art director at Lark Books spread out all the flowers and leaves, and believe me, there were a lot–many more than you see in the book. They arranged the flowers into chapters, and also worked out a flow of color through the book.
The upshot was that I had to re-crochet some of the flowers in different colors, which I was glad to do. The folks at Lark know what they’re doing when it comes to creating beautiful books.
Mumsy was one flower I redid. Linda said, “We want a yellow one and a white one, about 2-1/2 times as big as the earlier ones you sent.”
I went back to my notes. The earlier Mums were about 4″ across. I phoned Linda and said, “Two and a half times larger means that these new mums are going to be 10 inches across.”
“Yes,” she said.
“Okay, just checking!” I said, and got to work.
What do you do with a Mumsy that is ten inches in diameter? Use them as throw pillows? Maybe. Eva and Ella had a better solution. Hats!