Do Good Design

On the subject of colour today, I’ve been using a tool called The Stripe Generator, which is mainly for knitters but can be used in any design requiring you to come up with stripes of colour.

I’m using the Stripe Generator to create the pattern for a felted bag I’m knitting, and it’s useful to see both what the design will look like and the basic pattern I’ll need to use to achieve it.

I had a cone of dark brown yarn, a bunch of teal, a bit of pale turquoise and tangerine, so I plugged those colours in and used Photoshop to play with things till I got the pattern I want.

I call this pattern “Soil, Sea and Single Malt,” in honour of the landscape and whiskey that comes from Orkney.

There’s a small stripe of tangerine in the centre, above the peaty soil and sea, below the sky.

I’m just about done with the knitting, which is a pattern for the Felted Stash Bag from Alterknits, a wonderfully creative knitting book.

The bag, once felted, is incredibly strong and durable and will replace the ugly Tesco’s plastic “Bag for Life” we currently use for the shopping. I foresee a few more bags along the same lines, to use up some more spare wool.