The second project for Felicity Ford’s Color for Knitting club is the Cheers! mitts. The idea with this project is to take a very variegated yarn, pick out some of the colors in the yarn and find solids or tonals to match. The variegated yarn is used throughout, and you use the matching yarns in a stranded texture pattern. We were supposed to stick with 4 colors, but I would up going to 6. Though some were just darker and lighter shades of the same colors.
The variegated yarn I used is the sideways cake. At first I was just using the pinks and blues, but it didn’t have any oomph. Once I threw in the black and white, it appealed to me much more. I’m also glad I stuck to using both the light and dark versions of the pink and blue. On the coloring pages at least, all light was a little underwhelming, and all dark was too in-you-face. I’m happy with the mix of all of it together!
As with the previous project in this club, we had coloring sheets to experiment with yarn order and so on. I like that approach to finding colors that are going to work and be personally appealing in a pattern. Next month’s project in this club is going to be a colorwork hat and mitts – looking forward to picking out my colors for that!
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Wow, those look fantastic! You are learning so much in your club.
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Thank you! It has been really interesting so far 🙂 It’s kind of a guided play program, which is something I don’t do much. So it’s helpful!
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The mix is delightful. I am a fan of wide ranges in color values on projects.
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Thank you! It is interesting experimenting with color values within a project for sure 🙂
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Those look very smooshy and beautiful. They are so interesting, if I saw them in the wild it would drive me nuts not being able to figure the pattern out.
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Thank you! It’s deceptively easy 🙂
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Great interpretation of the project rules!!
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Thank you!
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That turned out really cool! I love the way the colors work together. I just worry about the number of ends that need to be sewn in… 😉
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I might have cheated a little on these and just knotted them really well 😉
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LOL! That works for me!
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Impressive, congratulations on the finish!
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Thank you!
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