Taighean means ‘houses’ in Scottish Gaelic and this design, from Colour Moves collection, recalls colours I've enjoyed during my trips to Scotland. Very often, my inspiration comes from travels, whose memories and emotions can stay strong with me for a very long time. In particular, during my trip to Scotland in 2004, while travelling by car, I suddenly saw this croft. We couldn’t stop there, so I quickly grabbed my analog camera, and I took a snap of the croft (I wasn’t the driver thou, in case you are wondering!).

Despite the poor quality of the pic, which has been digitalised years ago from film format, it can be easily seen how the croft has the typical ‘neutral’ colour of the stone with which it was built. In my Taighean pattern, I applied to the little houses the colours of the Scottish landscape and flowers I enjoyed that summer. Using the repetitive motif, I made landscape colours move through the houses’ shapes. In fact, this pattern is based around a simple house motif and uses 7 shade combinations. Each row of houses is a different shade, following a gradient, offset by a half motif from each previous row of houses.

I designed the top corrugated rib short as I created these mitts for wearing them while working on-site with my retouching palette; wearing short mitts while doing some practical jobs (e.g. gardening) will enable you to keep clean your mitts and warm your hands. Of course, if desired, the top rib length can be extended.

Taighean was the first pattern I designed for Kate and since then I can't seem to stop designing gloves and mittens!

Claudia

Yarn notes:

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

Yarn used for the sample: Kate Davies Designs Milarrochy Tweed (70% Wool; 30% Mohair; 100m / 109yds per 25g ball) in the following shades: Gloamin’ (9gr), Birkin (16gr), Smirr (2gr), Tarbet (2gr), Ardlui (2gr), Garth (2gr), Stockiemuir (2gr).

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