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In the first book to be published under KDDs new Make // Mark imprint, British-Italian designer, Claudia Fiocchetti presents a collection of bold and appealing accessory designs. From the 17 patterns included here, you might choose to knit a pair of elegant gloves; a long circular snood; a tam with a kaleidoscopic crown; or one of 5 different matching sets for head and hands. Drawing inspiration from everything from Italian architectural façades to the snowcapped mountains of Abruzzo; from antique mosaics and carpets to the found motifs of the natural world; each pattern reveals Claudia’s particularly attentive, creative and emotive approach to design. Knitted in KDDs Milarrochy Tweed and Àrd-Thìr yarns, and edited and with a foreword by Kate Davies, in this collection, Claudia Fiocchetti has truly made colour move.
You can find the yarn packs for Colour Moves designs in KDD shop
Your unique download code, enabling you to access your complimentary digital version of Colour Moves, is printed on the inside cover of your book.
In February 2019 I read about Warm Hands Competition just launched then by Kate Davies and my brain was immediately hit by a storm of ideas, that for many reasons I was ‘storing’ for long time! The brief was that the designs for hand accessories that would fit the best in Warm Hands collection in terms of style, technique and palette would have been published together with other designs, some of which by very well known designers others by newbies like myself. There we are: months later, in January 2020, ‘Blue Interference’, one of the designs I submitted, has been published in the amazing Warm Hands book, co-edited by Jeanette Sloan and Kate Davies. It is a collection of 15 colourful, creative, modern and contemporary fresh designs (gloves, mittens, mitts and gauntlets) knitted in either Milarrochy Tweed and Àrd-Thìr Kate Davies Designs’ yarns. You will be spoilt with choices as the collection has an interesting variety of designs, patterns, motives, textures, palettes, techniques. Each print copy comes with a unique code for accessing the e-book on Ravelry
To know more abut Warm Hands book click here.
To know more about the launch of Blue Interference and the idea behind this design click here.
The Journal
Gradient Mesh - Sweater
This sweater is based on a triple-square motif, which highlights a beautiful gradient of 8, 9 or 10 shades of Milarrochy Tweed (depending on the size) across a neutral background or vice versa. The Gradient Mesh set of beanie and gauntlets, published in Colour Moves, is featuring a doubled-square motif; in this design, I chose to use a bigger allover repeat.
Breaking a long silence
Writing again on this blog after a very long silence is not easy! But here I’m attempting it!
I disappeared from the knitting scene for a while, but that doesn’t mean that I stopped to knit! I have been very busy with my main work, and obviously, my knitting slowed a bit, but never got to a complete halt.
Golden Mustard
Hello everyone,
I hope you are still keeping your spirit up, despite these incredibly challenging times seem never-ending. I want to introduce to you a new design, my first using the new KDD&CO gorgeous DK yarn, called Schiehallion. For this beanie, I chose to make it with Daunder …
Colour Moves …especially in Autumn!
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 …
Unique Items
Hi all,
I hope to find all of you well. Today I am launching a new section in my shop. It is called Unique Items as you will find there hand made unique products, which means …
New beanie and more
Having been quiet for a while, I wanted to say ‘hello’ introducing a new design, just launched today! It is a two-shade beanie, which has my name because it turned out exactly as I wanted it and it fits very comfy on my head! I have been playing with stitches for sculptural effects, and this is one of a few new designs of this kind.
Introducing two new designs
Hello everyone!
Hope you are all well and safe in this extended lockdown.
I am keeping busy with knitting, of course, new design releases and some cooking!
Today I published on Ravelry, a new pattern for children …
Travelling to Peru
Hello everyone!
Today I would like to share with you some of the photos I took while travelling around Centre and northern Peru in 2014. It hasn’t been easy to choose which shots to present in this post, as …
Hypno
An emotional day today as I am here to introduce the last design of Colour Moves collection: Hypno! This bold standalone graphic pattern comes in two versions: a pair of mittens and a pair of fingerless gloves. I am …
Broken Herringbone
Hello everyone! In Colour Moves collection, after exploring accessories for hands and head, I moved to the neck too with this bold standalone design! Today Colour Moves’ pattern is Broken Herringbone, here modelled by Fenella Pole. It is a …
Floral tapestry
Floral Tapestry is another accessory set of tam and a pair of mittens from Colour Moves collection. This design was inspired by one of the sketches I drew during my travels to Peru in 2014. It is based on …
What I've been up to
Hello everyone!
Hope you are all well and still keeping up your spirit in these long, challenging times.
I've been quiet for a while, busy with various activities. Being my very small business a one-woman business, I found myself very often with my hands in too many pies! Drawing, charting, swatching, knitting, photographing, writing instructions, calculating sizes...
Onde
Hi all,
It has been a while since my last post. I’ve been quite busy with my main work and only recently I finally finished to write the instructions of a pattern I designed during the first months of the UK lockdown.
The new pattern is a shawlette. This accessory was inspired greatly by …
Gran Sasso
I grew up in Abruzzo, a region of Italy with a very beautiful and inspiring landscape, that rises from pretty coastal towns, through lakes and gentle hills where wine is grown, to the Apennine glacier and …
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! Today’s design is called Electric ups & down …
Gradient Mesh
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 …
Foglie Nascoste - Colour Moves
Good morning all. Today is a big day for me as my first knitting book Colour Moves …
Colour Moves: exciting news!
I am very excited to reveal the cover of my first book! Colour Moves is the first book to be printed under KKDandco Make //Mark imprint! The beautiful cover photo, as well as the other images …