Oak and Acorns: Color Planning this rughooking pattern

I introduced this pattern this fall. Since then I’ve color planned it several times. As with anything you do often, you begin to see patterns. I decided to share the method I am using to color plan this pattern with you.

The customer asked for brown, beige, green, gold with accents of teal.
I will be adding my favorite teal, B11, as the beauty line and veins. The background is a brown texture and the border will be a slighly darker brown texture.

When you are ready to hook, arrange the wools for each leaf:

Now you just have to figure how you will use each of the wools in each leaf. I wrote a post to get you started with ideas.

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Update: This method was used to hook this rug. The wools were different.

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