Electric ups & downs
Good morning everyone! Hope you are all well and safe during these strange and hard times! Here I am, hoping to cheer you up with some more colours!
© Tom Barr
Today’s design is called Electric ups & downs. It is a convertible pair of flip-top gloves / mittens. I am sure that after few days of me blogging about Colour Moves, you start to be familiar with my way to work with colours, shapes, patterns and motives.
So today I will talk a bit more about the construction of this pattern and a bit of the colour options I put together to enhance the fun of colour-work knits.
© Tom Barr
I designed this motif for a teenager’s hat few years ago, but never published it and I kept the hat as I needed to refine few bits and never done so far!
Here, for the flip-top gloves / mittens, I used the same reminiscent of woven fabrics motif in gradient shades. For the actual flip-top element, I experimented a different technique, which allowed me to continue flawlessly on the construction without having any pattern interruption on the back of the mittens.
© Tom Barr
© Tom Barr
As Kate Davies’ Milarrocky Tweed shades are so beautiful and they really work well together in endless combinations, I couldn’t stop my self to try more swatches, each of them includes 5 shades of Milarrocky Tweed. Apart from the palette used in the sample modelled here by Jane, I made three more swatches.
The Electric ups & downs pattern instructions include all the 4 different colour combinations and 2 different sizes for adult hands (S and L). In the gallery below you can see Electric ups & downs shown in size L with the 4th palette option.
I have been always attracted to colours and in my work as a wallpainting conservator it is something I am aware of at all times. While I design or knit, my palettes are always a conscious thought in my head. Some times I like to put together only cool shades, sometimes all warm shades, sometime complementary colours.
For the Electric ups & downs multi-coloured buttons I used Kate Davies tutorials (https://kddandco.com/2014/02/20/covered-button-tutorial/), and as Kate said making these covered buttons is fun and addictive!!!
Claudia
Yarn notes
Fingering woollen yarn, 100m / 109yds per 25g, WPI = 14, in five shades.
Yarn used for the sample: Kate Davies Designs Milarrochy Tweed (70% Wool; 30% Mohair; 100m / 109yds per 25g ball). For size S: shade A (20gr), shade B (7gr), shade C (14gr), shade D (8gr), shade E (10gr). For size L: shade A (23gr), shade B (9gr), shade C (21gr), shade D (9gr), shade E (12gr).
The pattern instructions include 4 different colourways:
1- A Birkin, B Smirr, C Ardlui, D Tarbet, E Gloamin’
2- A Birkin, B Tarbet, C Gloamin’, D Cranachan , E Campion
3- A Hirst, B Smirr, C Hare, D Horseback, E Bruce
4- A Hirst, B Buckthorn, C Hare, D Horseback, E Bruce
Colour Moves is on Ravelry too.
