Franklin Habit

A Practical Approach to Color for Knitters

Franklin Habit
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Designer Franklin Habit shares his journey through color, from a childhood of neutrals to an understanding of the full palette of choices available to knitters. He'll teach you an efficient and speedy method of swatching that will help you evaluate how your yarns work together.
Begin exploring the color wheel, to find harmonies that please you. Learn about the vibrancy of complementary colors and the quieter friendship of analogous colors. Simple geometry expands your choices for three- and four-color combinations.
Gain an understanding of color temperatures, of warms and cools, and learn about chroma: all the colors that can be created by mixing a hue with white, black or gray. You'll find yourself looking at your yarn stash in a whole new light!
Good value control can help you make a pattern look the way you want. Franklin shows how to determine the values of your yarns with the aid of a variety of methods and tools, then discusses color dominance, including which colors tend to recede and which ones stand out.
It's easy to get into a rut of choosing colors that share similar qualities, creating inbred color schemes. Learn how to break out of that rut, with some possibly surprising strategies. Franklin shows you how!
Inspiration really is all around you. Franklin helps you nail down the particulars and use them to choose color combinations that strike your fancy. You'll also get Franklin's rules of thumb for color proportions. Change them up and get a whole new look!
Franklin has designed two projects that will showcase your new skills as a colorist. The Blips cowl is a simple slipped-stitch pattern. The Bubble hat includes stranded colorwork. Franklin explains the key techniques for both, then sends you on your way to choose your hues!
 
 
7 Lessons
2  hrs 25  mins

Whether it’s yarn from your stash or the store, choose your hues with confidence and savvy! Join designer Franklin Habit and learn basic color concepts to bring out the full potential of your beautiful projects. During class, you’ll learn a speedy, efficient method of swatching, so you can try out yarn color combinations on the fly. Wondering which color families look good together? Franklin will demonstrate the bonds between colors and help you choose the combinations that really speak to you. Then, you’ll find out how to create new variations with yarns that are already in your stash and discover ground rules you can rely on when working with similar colors. Plus, you’ll receive two colorful patterns, a color wheel and a value scale to help you hone your skills!

Franklin Habit

Designer and teacher Franklin Habit is the author of It Itches: A Stash of Knitting Cartoons (Interweave Press, 2008) and has been a regular columnist for both Lion Brand and Knitty. He is also the proprietor of one of the web's most popular knitting blogs, The Panopticon, where readers worldwide drop in for a mix of essays, cartoons and the continuing adventures of Dolores the Sheep.

Franklin Habit

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