ColorLab

I was just playing around with a couple of color gradients, and the more I played, the more I found that there was almost no end to the ways that they might be combined.
I thought you might also enjoy this kind of fun, so developed a color lab so that you could all play along.

All that's needed are two complementary color gradients and one compatible contrasting or neutral color.

Combine them both from dark to light, with stripes of varying widths. First with one gradient dominent ...

... then with the next.

Or give them all equal footing.

Set them off against the backdrop of your contrasting color.

Or spread them out a bit.The possibilities could go on and on.

For my sample here, I worked all of these ideas in a progression, with a resulting scarf that is a little quirky and assymetrical.

For my next, I think I'll make a more mirror-image scarf, with wider dark-dominant stripes at the ends, working up to a narrower striped and lighter center.

What do you think you'd like to do with yours?

Stats

Finished Sizes: Make in any length and any width from narrow scarf to wide shawl.
Instructions include specific counts for narrow scarf (wide scarf, stole, shawl) which measure 5.5 (11, 16.5, 22)" wide by 90" long. Sample shown is narrow scarf.

Yarn: Sunday Knits 3 ply (sport weight) yarn in 2 five-color gradients and 1 neutral or contrasting color.
Sample shown is in Forest creek and Honeysuckle color gradients with Eden apricot as the contrasting color. Substitute any light sport-weight yarns in gradient colors: about 50 (95, 140, 185) yds each of 10 gradient colors and contrasting color - 550 (1050, 1550, 2050) total yards.

Gauge: 22 sts and 28 rows = 4" in Stockinette stitch. Note that this is a looser gauge than is typical for the yarn used.

Needles: Size 7 US / 4.5 mm needles.

Techniques used: Simple increases and decreases, joining colors (with tips and link included).

Pattern includes: Written instructions, glossary, linked tutorials, color sequence of sample is written, but creating one's own formula strongly encouraged.

Knit ColorLab

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Modeled by Rebekah Smith.