Gradient Mesh

© Tom Barr

Today’s design is Gradient Mesh: a colourful set of a beanie and a pair of gauntlets, featuring a double-square motif. This pattern probably expresses my way to work at its best: the design is very graphic and the simple shape of these accessories provide perfect canvases for welcoming the dance of colours over the surface of the knitted fabric. I really wanted the different shades to appear to move and shift along the surface of the fabric, and achieved this effect using two different colour combinations. The first has a neutral, grey background over which the geometrical colours moves in a gradient. In the second colour option, background and foreground are reversed, with the grey shade picked out against a wash of colour.

© Tom Barr

Fenella Pole has modelled Gradient Mesh in a superb way, and I feel that she helped hugely to bring my moving colours to life among the beautiful Scottish landscape!

A little note about how the mesh design came about. Sitting in a boring meeting, discussing something unrelated to my job, I began to doodle, and from that little diversion, first the Gradient Mesh Beanie and then other designs began to emerge. An example, perhaps of how time with a pen and a wandering mind is never really wasted. 

I found it particularly joyful to play with these small motifs and colours, exploring how small changes make big differences to patterns. 

© Tom Barr

© Tom Barr

Gradient Mesh pattern instructions include 2 colour combinations, for both the Beanie and the gauntlets.

In addition to that, the gauntlet pattern instructions include two adult sizes (S/M and M/L).

I hope you enjoy today design and pop back to my blog in coming days as more designs are revealed!

Claudia

Yarn notes

Fingering woollen yarn, 100m / 109yds per 25g, WPI = 14, in nine shades.

Yarn used for the sample: Kate Davies Designs Milarrochy Tweed (70% Wool; 30% Mohair; 100m / 109yds per 25g ball). For the tam: Birkin (30gr), Campion (3gr), Gloamin (3gr), Tarbet (3gr), Lochan’ (3gr), Ardlui (3gr), Garth (3gr), Stockiemuir (3gr), Cowslip (3gr). For the gauntlets colourway 1 - size S/M: Birkin (5gr), Campion (4gr), Gloamin (3gr), Tarbet (3gr), Lochan’ (3gr), Ardlui (3gr), Garth (3gr), Stockiemuir (3gr), Cowslip (3gr). For the gauntlets colourway 2 - sizeM/L: Birkin (32gr), Campion (4gr), Gloamin (3gr), Tarbet (3gr), Lochan’ (3gr), Ardlui (4gr), Garth (4gr), Stockiemuir (3gr), Cowslip (3gr).

Colour Moves is on Ravelry too.