Hello and welcome to the 2023 Sock Knitter’s Almanach, May edition.
For the new kids on the block, the Sock Knitter’s Almanac is Tricot & Stitch’s monthly colorway creation, which started in January 2021. Each month I’m creating a new colorway. Three-month subscriptions are now available in the shop!
This month I wanted an explosion of colour and energy. So I went for a deep dive in street art imagery, famous and anonymous, painted with the utmost care or sprayed in haste. Street art has the incredible power to transform spaces and bring beauty to the darkest places. It’s also a great way to tour big cities and I’ve been told that New York, London, Paris or Porto have amazing frescos. The complete moodboard is here, electric inspiration guaranteed.
So this is “Street Art”. I clearly went out of my comfort zone for this one! I decided I would “clash” colours together. And that colorway is wild: super different depending on the base, quite unpredictable and crazy colour mixes happening in the pots… It takes after the inspo beautifully, from mayhem emerges beauty. Its companion colorway is “Urban Legends”, based on a favorite colorway of mine, “Nebuleuse”, that I revamped and pumped up full of intensity and speckles. Street Art needed at least a colorway as strong- willed as them! There again, Urban Legends doesn’t disappoint. Strong contrast in similar hues, electric purples and neon speckles make vibrant yarn.
Preorders for both colorways are open in my Etsy shop across all bases and will ship within the next 3 to 4 weeks.
The pattern suggestion for May is a “classic” of sock knitting. It’s a free pattern on Ravelry called By The Seine River by Dona Knits. Lovely pattern, beautiful details and it works with all colorways.
Check out today’s podcast episode to see the month colorway live! You can shop the preorders on Etsy by clicking the box below. Thanks!