Hello everyone!

Hope you are all well and resilient!

Here, in the UK, Autumn feelings are starting to take over the Summer ones.

Every year, I found myself incredibly amazed at how this season suddenly surprises me! And I reckon that no season like Autumn makes the colours move and shift so wonderfully, and the warm autumnal colours are moving us too!

This period of the year is when most people are looking for accessories that will comfort and protect us during cold seasons, so that we may buy new hats, gloves and scarfs, or if we are knitters we make new ones for ourself or our beloved ones!

If you haven’t done it already, why not consider to treat yourself to a copy of Colour Moves ? It is my first knitting book, a collection of 17 designs for hand-knitted accessories.

I was very thrilled when Kate Davies told me that in the last Knitting Magazine issue, n.208, Colour Moves has received a lovely review:

‘Colour Moves is the first book to be published under Kate Davies Designs’ Make//Mark imprint. This is a colourful collection of 17 accessory designs exploring colourwork combinations and techniques. Author Claudia Fiocchetti is a British-Italian designer who has taken inspiration from everything from Italian architectural façades to snowcapped mountains in Abruzzo. The book’s cover star is a truly striking snood worked as a long tube called Broken Herringbone. Inside you will find a number of hat and mitten pairs, including the colourful, leafy Foglie Nascoste fingerless mitts and tam combination, rainbow tartan effect Gradient Mesh gauntlets and beanie and striped mittens and slouchy hat pairing Gran Sasso. As with all the KDD books, this is beautifully and stylishly photographed in stunning Scottish settings and is a joy to leaf through before you even cast on. All the designs are knitted in KDD’s Milarrochy Tweed and Ãrd-Thir yarns, and kits are available from the KDD website’

Broken Herringbone cowl© Tom Barr — *Broken Herringbone* cowl
© Tom Barr

Colour Moves collection

The book includes also two sets (sizes S/M and M/L) of templates to create your very own set of blockers to provide the final finishing touch for your knitting work.

Before sending all the samples to KDD&co for the photographic campaign, I played a bit with my camera, combining autumnal leaves, seasonal products and Colour Moves samples. In the below gallery, there are some of the still lives resulting from that experiment. I hope you like them!