Source of inspiration

For whatever reason I've been experiencing bit of a creative dry spell lately, the juices have stopped flowing, my brain became logical instead of imaginative. Yesterday I broke out ALL my yarn scraps, and I do mean scraps. Some of these were little more than 10cm long! I decided to make one MASSIVE crochet chain, theoretically merging all the colours into a somewhat haphazard rainbow. It ended up looking like some specialty yarn, I can't wait to use it for something!

I love the winter issues of better homes and gardens, I'm not a gardener but there's something about the colours God designed in nature that is pure inspiration! The winter issues also have awesome knitting and crochet patterns and ideas. Most of them are remixes of old favourites but its very hard to find decent old patterns! Especially for crochet. Last month they released the 36 page knitting book, there were some nice patterns but I always hesitate to spend lots of money on the same kind of yarn to make a garment that I might no necessarily like the end product of! There were some nice lacy scarves that I'm DYING to try out!
This months crochet patterns, I believe, we're based on an 'African flower'? Never heard of it before but I still have heaps to learn.

I also made two doilies. From this pattern:

http://www.crochetspot.com/crochet-pattern-hipster-doily/

I saw another version of it done it DK yarn, each row done in a different colour. I did mine in really thin red cotton yarn (happened to be the only thing I had on hand.) sad part is it doesn't match a single room in our house. I thought I might find some small frames and sell them. The cotton shows the stitches nicely.

I put a photo of the 'coasting along' pattern I made.