From tradition to trend. Breathe new life into your colour work knitting projects with complete colour confidence.
Do you have a Fair Isle knitting project, but are not sure how to choose your colours or would like to be braver with colour choice? Do you like stranded knitting projects but you don’t like the colour choices in the pattern decided by the designer and would like to successfully choose your own colours? My Colour Blending workshop is an online Zoom, two hour fun, interactive, creative session to experiment with coloured yarn in order to gain the skills to successfully and confidently choose colours for your own future stranded knitting projects.
For the session, you will be asked to bring your stash yarn to your own table for the workshop (do not buy special yarn as we are looking at colour). You can look at your own stash of yarn and I will teach you how to get the best out of colours for your stranded colour work projects.
NEXT ONLINE COLOUR BLENDING – Sunday 10th January 2027, 2-4pm UK TIME
A little something extra for January – at the start of everyone’s New Year.
As we begin a new year, I’ve decided that 50% of the income from my Colour Blending Workshops on 10th January will go towards humanitarian support for people in Gaza. I will be donating to https://www.msf.org/gaza-israel-war
Creativity, colour and making things together bring so much pleasure into our lives. But I also feel strongly that we shouldn’t lose sight of those whose lives are currently filled with unimaginable hardship, especially as we start a NEW YEAR.
If you would like to book on to this colour blending workshop – there are 6 places available and I look forward to working with participants in the New Year.
Experience Level – Anyone who can knit and wants to experiment with and understand colours more. This is not a knitting session. This is a design workshop where you will learn the skills and gain experience to enable you to blend colours and design your own samples of Shetland traditional tree and star yoke patterns. The workshop is based around The Tree and Star Motif in my Sea Urchin Hat pattern, as pictured above and to the right. It’s a fun creative workshop where you will be able to experiment with your colours at home for Fair Isle knitting to take forward to create your own swatches for future projects. Afterwards, you’ll be able to throw yourselves into the many colours of yarn available to us and you will look at your own stash of yarn with a different eye. We will look at a traditional Shetland Tree and Star motif, used on Shetland cardigans and jumpers, to USE AS YOUR COLOUR BLENDING SWATCH after the workshop.
This is not a knitting lesson but one of colour.
At this online workshop, you will learn: –
• How to see colour / tone / contrast
• How to blend colours in your knitting to create a harmonious pattern.
• How to see what you can see and what you cannot immediately see in a colour blended motif.
• How to get excited about colour and not frightened
• How to see your errors in colour choices.
• If you love colour and textiles, you will enjoy the opportunity for experimentation Please bring with you.
• Any coloured yarn that you have to look at during the workshop – it doesn’t matter what yarn it is – we’re just looking at colour. Please bring a mixture of light colours and dark colours – you don’t need a lot and you don’t need to buy anything special – just bring what you have.
• A mobile phone to take photographs in colour and b/w – please learn how to do this before the event.
• Paper and pen to take notes.
• We will not be knitting – this can be a follow up session.
Workshop handouts: – The workshop presentation will be emailed to all participants after the workshop. After the session, you will get 20% off any of my knitting patterns on Ravelry.
Here is the link to the New Year Workshop on 10th Jan 2027. It seems a long way off but it will soon come around.
COLOUR BLENDING WORKSHOP BOOKING HERE
Let’s wish as many people as we can – A happy new year.
