Earlier this year I put out the idea of a Colour Swatch group on Instagram. I was inundated with people wanting more information. Finally, a group of knitters joined me at the beginning of March for a monthly Colour Swatch Journal Club – lasting for 6 months.
I hoped people would become more adventurous with colour and even after 3 sessions, I am so excited by their results. What I didn’t expect was the extraordinary level of creativity, experimentation and personal interpretation that began appearing week after week.
I am so proud of my Colour Swatch Journal Group’s development. Here is a peep inside the Colour Swatch Journal Club private FaceBook Group where participants share their swatches and colour development.
I am so proud of them – I’m watching their confidence grow through Colour and swatch experimentation.
My swatch journal club is developmental learning – this group is develops month on month, over 6 months with a sessional newsletter pdf emailed on the 1st of each month, including step by step exercises, inspiration, and charts, research and photo tutorials – which encourage understanding of value of colour, tone, contrast, colour blending and then confidence to run free with all their knowledge – it is a group who love to learn The Joy of Slow Colour Exploration There is also a private Facebook group to share their work and I meet online via zoom at the end of every month.
Each month, I send participants tiny experiments and developmental learning exercises – the outcomes of which I am sharing here today.
Developing A Small Swatch Can Change Everything in your practice.
Their notebooks and journals are filling up with unexpected colour combinations and these wonderful women are developing their own visual language. They are learning to see colour differently and their swatches are becoming little artworks. Their journals will be so exciting to see at the end – we will have a show and tell.
“Some participants became fascinated by…”
- contrast
- The Shetland motifs
- garden colours and inspiration
- colour blending
- unexpected palettes
- historical references
- even experimenting with steeking.
This is What Happens When Knitters Start Trusting me to teach them how to use Colour in their projects.
The next series of my Colour Swatch Journal group sessional newsletters and meetings will start in September – so it will be a wonderful Autumn / Winter learning. And, instead of 6 months timescale, I am going to condense the exercises and newsletters into 4 months.
If you would like to go on the wait list to be sent the new information ( Around June time) then complete the contact form below and I will be in touch in June.
All swatches are taken from my Sea Urchin Hat pattern / Tree and Star Hat Pattern and Kaleidoscope Junper – All found here
And the Fair Isle OXO motifs are taken from my Fair Isle Chart and Stash Buster Neck warmer .
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