Hypno
An emotional day today as I am here to introduce the last design of Colour Moves collection: Hypno!
© Tom Barr
This bold standalone graphic pattern comes in two versions: a pair of mittens and a pair of fingerless gloves.
© Tom Barr
© Tom Barr
I am pretty sure that it is now quite evident that I adore colours! I love many different juxtapositions and combinations, including shades of grey and black that are never really monochrome but are instead always full of colour in themselves. I feel a particular attraction towards greys, and they are shades genuinely fascinating for me.
When it comes to geometric shapes, very often I prefer them when they are rendered in monochrome shades of black and grey. I called this design Hypno as decentering the smaller squares of each repeat gives a slight hypnotic feeling. You can choose to knit the Hypno mittens or fingerless gloves . . . or both!
In Colour Moves, Hypno has been beautifully modelled in both versions by Sam Kilday! Thank you, Sam!
© Tom Barr
To provide the final finishing touch for your knitting work, in the book you'll also find a tutorial and two sets (sizes S/M and M/L) of templates to create your very own set of blockers. They will be of great help for blocking gloves, mittens, fingerless gloves, mitts and you will see that with Electric Ups & Downs you will end up to use every single piece of the templates! Fun!
© Tom Barr
With particular joy, I am sharing with you the excitement I felt when the Colour Moves copies reached my flat in neat boxes! Oh, my goodness! What incredible feeling! So the shipment of Colour Moves began. Many thanks to Bell&Bain Ltd for having printed Colour Moves in such hard moment and with such incredible speed!
It is now time to thanks all the beautiful people that made Colour Moves!
Kate Davies, for whom I feel great admiration and who, with the Make // Mark imprint scheme, gave me this incredible opportunity to publish my collection! She is an incredible mentor, very knowledgeable and supportive, till the very last minute!
Many thanks to Tom Barr, whose high skills made colour dancing throughout the book! His photography and graphic design elevated at its best any single garment in this collection!
Melanie Patton, who not always handles my yarn shipments with kind efficiency, but she is supporting my project and has encouraged me in various occasions.
Many thanks to the models: Jane Hunter, Fenella Pole and Sam Kilday! Your excellent way to wear Colour Moves collection made it very real to me!
A big thank-you to Frauke Urban that with her precise and efficient techediting helps hugely for the final result of this book. It is always a pleasure to work with her!
I am very grateful to Sarah Mackay, whose proofreading work has been very precious!
An important help also comes from Claire Leach, supporting me since the Warm Hands competition till these days moderating and managing the KDD&co forum on Ravelry.
A final thank-you goes to my fellow knitters of KDD Ravelry group that since Warm Hands competition encourage me with their positive feedback and they are continuing to do so these days of Colour Moves launch, with warm messages! Thank you!
When finishing a long project (even in my wall painting conservation work) at the end of it, I always have mixed feelings, satisfaction for something done, but a bit of sadness as I will miss all the demanding tasks it does involve. However, this time is different, as Colour Moves will 'move' further with the projects that other knitters will make from its patterns!
I have loved developing the Colour Moves collection, and my final wish is for these patterns to bring joy to you and many other knitters!
Claudia
Yarn notes
Fingering woollen yarn, 100m / 109yds per 25g, WPI = 14, in two shades.
Yarn used for the samples: Kate Davies Designs Milarrochy Tweed (70% Wool; 30% Mohair; 100m / 109yds per 25g ball). For the mitts: Bruce (18gr) and Birkin (28gr). For the mittens: Bruce (30gr) and Birkin (25gr).
Colour Moves is on Ravelry too.
