Color Everywhere

Sometimes customers don't have a lot of preference when they ask for a hat.  They say, "You're the artist!"  Other times, they know just what they want, exactly what they want, and I do my best to create what they are imagining - in knitwear.  I hung up the phone after speaking with a customer like this.  I pulled yarn from the shelves in my studio to match the description I'd just heard.  I looked at the balls of yarn and arranged them on the table, then put them in another order, then another.  It turned out, I was about to leave for Hawaii. I was going to have some fun with this one.

The Trial Run

The Finished Hat

The Matching Infinity Scarf

The View

As I was knitting, a rainbow appeared on the horizon.  I looked at it for a while.  There it was - a burst of color, like a wink from nature saying, "Yeah, I love color too."

Another hat delivered

When I get hat orders, I like to talk about design.  The beauty of someone asking me to make them a hat is that I make what they want, rather than the process happening the other way around; that they have to chose what is offered.  Sometimes the question, "What do you want your hat to look like?" can be daunting because how often do we get to design our own wearables?  This past order though, the customer knew just what they were looking for and thus the challenge was all mine!

 This is the design he wanted - simple, no?!  His color choice: light green, dark green, and...green.

This is what I came up with: bom bom bommmm...

 Bring me the next challenge - let me at 'em!

The dress is finally delivered!

I was commissioned to design and make a knitted dress. Jessica, the recipient, drew a picture of her dream dress on a scrap piece of paper and I taped it into my design journal. After the sketches and measurements were made I set off to knit my first dress. I met with Jessica last Thursday night for dinner and I handed the creation over to her.



hood detail:



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Border detail:



hood side view:



Jessica, thank you for the opportunity!!