Colour is important in design, in fact it's important in pretty much everything, but it's of special importance when you're putting together a collection. Every piece must work with every other piece. The colour story has to be beautiful, cohesive without being matchy-matchy.
And
it's not a straightforward thing to do when your collection is made
from yarn... yarn from lots of different yarn companies, from
different shops, from online...
My
first thought was that I'd have to carry around a huge, growing bag
filled with all the different items to make sure that any new
addition worked with everything else. Whilst I was pondering the
practicalities of yarn shopping with a holdall, a backpack and a
small suitcase on wheels, I received an email from a paint company
and had a revelation.
(Please
note that I am not addicted to home décor as well as yarn. This
particular paint company has a range of stunning, heritage inspired
paint colours and I like to see what they’re doing and what new
colours they’re bringing out. Just so you know.)
Anyway,
back to the revelation. I realised that what I needed was a portable
colour palette. A little card with all the relevant colours on it.
Yep, that’s right. I ordered their free colour card. And when it
arrived I cut it up into little rectangles of colour and had a
thoroughly enjoyable hour arranging, discarding and selecting colours
until I had a collection I was happy with. Then I went all Blue
Peter and stuck the chosen rectangles on a card which will live in my
handbag and accompany me on every trip to everywhere. Because you
never know when you might stumble across some yarn or even a yarn
shop.
Can
you tell how ridiculously happy the colour exercise has made me? In
case you’re wondering what collection I’m talking about, I’m
working on a book filled with fabulous patterns and now it has a
proper, grown up, cohesive colour palette. Now I just need to visit
All The Yarn Shops.
What a brilliant fab idea, i await your new e-book & the yarn squishing that will surely follow! How exciting 😍
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