Color Theory For Knitters

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I found a bag of swatches this morning from my color theory for knitters class on Bluprint and I was reminded of how much I loved this course!  It’s pretty much the best knitting class I have ever taken, and it’s not even really about how to knit at all.  Basically, Franklin Habit instructs you to go find all the different colors of yarn in your stash and throw them all together in a “basket of chaos” and then you get to play around with a color wheel and knit up a ton of swatches as you learn about color schemes, value & tone, color dominance and more.  I highly recommend checking it out!

Here are some of my swatches…

Complementary Colors: This one is my absolute fave… I love the contrast! It’s also an interesting example of color dominance. (See how the yellow-green pops off the background?)

Analogous Colors – This one is just okay.  I wish there was more contrast in values.

Monochromatic: This is a really interesting look at value as well.  There is almost too much contrast in value between the reds and the light pink… so much so that I bet you couldn’t even tell that is pink, right? Looks white.

Split Complementary: I really love this swatch too, but after growing up in Utah, I can only think of the Jazz when I see these three colors together so I don’t know if I’d really want to ever make anything with this scheme.

I’m thinking about knitting up some more swatches, just for funsies!  Stay tuned!