Meet Moxie
This week I had another pattern go live - Moxie. It is a fun fingering weight colorwork hat and mitten set appearing in Twist Collective Winter 2009. It was knit using Ivy Brambles SockScene Sock Yarn from The Yarn and Fiber Company in the Wild Blueberries and Holly colorways. When the colors were chosen I swear there was a spy in my coat closet — Holly is nearly a dead ringer for my down ski jacket (which I wore outside in late July just to take these photos for you)!
My original “swatch” did not use colors quite so similar or kettle dyed, but the bold geometrics of the stitch pattern can stand up to higher contrast color combos as well. In my original swatch I used Louet Gems Sport in Terracotta and Aqua. I was inspired to create this stitch pattern by art deco designs and I had wanted to use that same influence in the color selection. I would have preferred my “swatch” had a lighter aqua, perhaps closer to a robins egg blue, but when I got struck with this pattern idea I couldn’t find the shades I wanted in the same yarn line locally.
I am kind of anxious to reknit this one. Despite the fingering weight yarn it goes quite fast. There is just something about colorwork that makes you keep saying “one more row.” I’d like to see it in a more neutral palette like brown and cream. But I think it could also be quite striking in red and white too! Then or course there are all the other art deco influenced color combos to try too! I’m really anxious to see what everyone decides to knit their Moxies in.
