Design process: Sun and Moon
Posted on September 18, 2019 by Catherine Gamroth
These socks,
the first project in our summer club with Andrea Rangel, were inspired by the theme of our club: SKY.
Looking back, a moody, sky-like gradient combined with sun and moon themed colour work seems kinda obvious, but it took me a while to get there. We knew we wanted socks with a bit of colour work at the toe, but all my ideas for colours involved too much cowbell at the cuff and on the leg. I didn't want the toe and the cuff competing for who should get the most attention.
Here are a few ideas that I worked though. I got a circular sock machine at the beginning of the year so I can quickly knit up swatches and test out ideas. I had a couple ideas that looked great in my head but that I just couldn't translate onto yarn.
Once we settled on the colours and I (finally) had some yarn for Andrea to work with, the design came together fairly quickly. First, this text.
Then, before I knew it, a sock!
And of course we did decide to go for a moon option as well. (Club members random received either the sun or moon colours and the pattern includes charts for both.) It came together beautifully in the end!
Finally, a great part of the design process for this whole collection was that one time we met at Andrea's place and she made a very tasty
apple crumble. Highly recommend this recipe.
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