New Cushion Design - "Blaze"

My aim is to produce a new cushion design or product every month, and the idea for the "Blaze" cushion has been bubbling along for some time now.
Basically I see the same view every morning on my way back from the school run - it's of the Eastern flank of Blaze Fell, the nearest high ground to Armathwaite. It's one of those views that immediately puts me in a good mood, whatever the weather, and in every season. I think I particularly love it in winter when the colours are much more muted.
I've made several attempts to photograph the view, but as with all things like this, my mental image is miles better than the photo!

But you get the idea - lots of crisscrossing fields and clumps of woodland stretching into the distance.
I've done lots of sketching, trying to reduce the image to a series of intersecting lines, before translating it into knitting using blocks of different colour and texture.
This was my first attempt

All in natural colours, and with a bit of a 1980s stripy vibe!

However it's a bit too busy to work well as a kit, and also too expensive as it uses 4 different colours. So design 2 is much more pared down, with 3 colours and a simplified structure.

Still a little lumpy as I've not blocked it yet, but you get the idea...

Now all that's left to do is write up the pattern in a user-friendly style. This is a more complex knit than the textured stripe design, but hopefully I can introduce novice knitters to the intarsia technique gently!

Somewhat excitingly New Lanark have put in an order for the new design cushion kits, for delivery this Thursday! I then hope to have the kits available online by the weekend, tying in with my stall at Brampton Market on Saturday.

I'm also contemplating different colour schemes for the cushion. The scheme above is using Pebble, Limestone and Gritstone, so is sticking to the natural greys, but with a fair degree of warmth from the blends (Pebble in particular has quite a brownish tone). I wanted to do a combination of wintry green, ochre and rich brown, to mimic the colours out there at the moment, but I'm struggling to get a good mix, so may well end up with a cushion in rich earth tones (Ochre, Autumn and Russet?) and one sticking with the natural greens. Watch this space, or come and see what I've come up with on Saturday....