Six-color sunburst: Crochet Color Palette & Yarn Placement Generator

Assign colors to structural stages

This six-color study links one palette cycle to six actual Sunburst working rounds. Its independent task is to assign yarn identity to a foundation, puff ring, cluster ring and three square frames without treating every round as the same workload. Blue, gold, coral, green, ivory and near-black occupy slots one through six. Each appears once in the companion's six rounds, but equal appearance frequency does not imply equal stitch count or equal yarn consumption.

Prepare six stable slot tags

Use smooth DK cotton candidates and begin with a four-millimeter trial hook. Have scissors, a tapestry needle, sixteen center-repeat markers, four corner markers and a ruler ready. Tag colors as blue #243BCE, gold #C29524, coral #C44833, green #526B45, ivory #F4F0E8 and near-black #111111. Enter that order in the palette and keep US terms. The exact physical yarns and their care response must be checked separately; the hex values are digital planning references.

Separate finite grid frequency from round frequency

The sixty-four-position palette allocates eleven positions to blue, twelve to gold, eleven to coral, and ten each to green, ivory and near-black. Six does not divide sixty-four evenly, and the fixed row-plus-column phase determines this distribution. The Sunburst does not inherit those cell quantities. Its written palette schedule assigns colors to rounds one through six, then would cycle back to blue on round seven if a separately specified longer construction were made.

Exact palette record

Download the palette JSON into the Color Palette & Yarn Placement Generator.

1. Color 1: #243BCE; next-color luminance contrast 2.94:1. Assign to rounds 1, 7, and repeat.
2. Color 2: #C29524; next-color luminance contrast 1.76:1. Assign to rounds 2, 8, and repeat.
3. Color 3: #C44833; next-color luminance contrast 1.22:1. Assign to rounds 3, 9, and repeat.
4. Color 4: #526B45; next-color luminance contrast 5.21:1. Assign to rounds 4, 10, and repeat.
5. Color 5: #F4F0E8; next-color luminance contrast 16.61:1. Assign to rounds 5, 11, and repeat.
6. Color 6: #111111; next-color luminance contrast 2.33:1. Assign to rounds 6, 12, and repeat.

Read the actual six-round companion

The square starts with sixteen blue double crochets. Gold supplies sixteen puffs, each formed with three drawn-up-loop repetitions and secured before its spacing chain. Coral supplies sixteen completed four-double-crochet clusters. Green squares the center into sixty posts: twenty-four treble crochets, twenty-four double crochets and twelve half double crochets. Ivory expands to seventy-two double crochets, and near-black makes the eighty-four-post outside round.

Separate construction or layout record

Download the independent companion JSON into its corresponding generator. This file belongs to that tool, not the palette importer.

1. Magic ring: ch 2 (does not count), 16 dc; sl st to first dc. Tighten ring.
2. Join puff color. In each dc make one puff: [yarn over, insert hook and pull up a loop] three times; yarn over and pull through all 7 loops; ch 1 to secure, then ch 1 for spacing. Join to first puff. 16 puffs and 16 spacing gaps.
3. In each spacing gap work a 4-dc cluster, ch 2. Cluster: [yarn over, insert into gap, pull up loop, yarn over, pull through 2] four times; yarn over and pull through all 5 loops. Join. 16 clusters and 16 ch-2 spaces.
4. Join in a ch-2 space. Repeat four times: (3 tr, ch 2, 3 tr) in corner space; 3 dc in next space, 3 hdc in next, 3 dc in next. Join to first tr. Ch 3 to begin (not counted). 24 tr, 24 dc, 12 hdc; four corner spaces.
5. Join in corner; ch 2 (not counted). In each corner work (3 dc, ch 2, 3 dc), and work 3 dc in each of the 4 gaps between groups on each side. Sl st to first dc.
6. Join in corner; ch 2 (not counted). In each corner work (3 dc, ch 2, 3 dc), and work 3 dc in each of the 5 gaps between groups on each side. Sl st to first dc.

Count units and chains independently

The completed-unit counts sixteen, sixteen, sixteen, sixty, seventy-two and eighty-four sum to two hundred sixty-four. Sixteen puffs do not mean sixteen ordinary posts, and the coral clusters contain sixty-four unfinished legs before closure. The puff round has sixteen securing and sixteen spacing chains. Clusters add thirty-two spacing chains, and three square frames add twenty-four corner chains. The separate chain total is eighty-eight, excluding starting lifts and ordinary joins.

Preserve both tool identities

The palette download restores in the Color Palette tool. The companion restores in the Sunburst Granny Square Generator, where three square border rounds follow its three center rounds. Keep both files and the six physical tags together. A dark numeric label on ivory is chart ink rather than a change of yarn. Inspect the round swatches and the construction's partial-loop definitions before working from a printed reference.

Questions before choosing yarn amounts

Can six equal balls be justified from one round in each color? The six workloads differ substantially and need measured consumption. Can the same assignments establish a finished square's centimeter size? Make a washed trial with the actual materials. Retain those observations with a separate yarn estimate. This record verifies the palette-to-structure mapping and recoverability, not a physical Sunburst sample, matched dye behavior or a tested purchase quantity.