Judy's Colors

Jester’s Cousin

pollymac — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:20:27 +0000

Jester's Cousin

A riot of colors and motifs, JESTER’S COUSIN just had to have a pair with two different cuffs. You can tame your pair down by making the cuffs match . . . just how much of a Jester are you?! Thirteen skeins of 11 colors.

$9.00 pdf download

Jaunty

pollymac — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:16:35 +0000

pink, bright green, dark green, red

With a wasp waist and a frilly ruffle, JAUNTY will put a confident smile on the face of any woman from 10 to 110! Finger-tips can either mix or match: your choice. And your choice of 6 colorways. Eight or 9 skeins of 7 or 8 colors.

$9.00 pdf download

Ivy

pollymac — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:13:04 +0000

white, green, red

Comforting and reassuring, IVY (inspired by the idea of retro tea towels!), comes in warm white with crisp blue, old-fashioned green and lively red. Nine to 13 skeins of 8 to 12 colors.

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Fetch

pollymac — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:06:54 +0000

black, magenta, teal

Based upon a traditional Turkish motif, FETCH can be a handsome alpha dog, playful puppy, or sophisticated city-dog, depending on colorway. Ask your friends if they can find the dogs! 6-10 skeins of 4-9 colors.

$9.00 pdf download

DownHill

pollymac — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:22:43 +0000

DownHill

DOWNHILL with its bright colors gets your skier, well, down hill in a very racy fashion. If your favorite couple loves the slopes, DownHill for him, Jaunty for her. Seven skeins of 6 colors for DownHill.

$9.00 pdf download

Scandia

pollymac — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:10:03 +0000

blue, black, white

At a glance, SCANDIA’S cuffs look alike; closer inspection shows they have subtly different colors and motifs! For your conservative side, hide the lovely cuff beneath a sleeve, leaving a very sedate mitten for the world; only you will know your flamboyant secret. Seven to 8 skeins of 6 or 7 colors.

$9.00 pdf download

How the Skiing Christmas Stocking Happened

pollymac — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:34:40 +0000

Who would have thought a Christmas Stocking design would come from a mitten? Well, here at Judy’s Colors, with eccentric Judy at the helm, patterns can come from just about anywhere. Wait till you see the mittens and hat that came from boots and socks!

Nancy C wanted mittens for her family; for herself, she wanted her favorite hearts and pink colors. And so Nancy’s mitten was made. Nice mitten, but it didn’t remind me of Nancy at all. So she got another mitten, which has no photo so I can’t show it to you!, but it is black and a dark green with a sophisticated motif and lace at the top of a very short cuff. She loved it.

Anyway, I kept thinking there was a stocking in that mitten, somewhere. So I started with the braids and pink heart/star motif.

Made the braids a little different, but didn’t like them at the top of the stocking. Reused the leg yarn, but kept the braiding for “another day”.

So I put ribbing at the top of the stocking; by now the whole design was taking on the look of (to me!) ski stockings, so “Skiing” came into being. At this stage, I liked the braids at the bottom of the leg, and I didn’t like the ribbing at the top.

As the stocking was evolving, I had hoped to do three colorways: pink, lavender and apple green. The idea and I just couldn’t work together, so I gave up and did something else.

Originally I had not intended to make a place for initials on any of the designs, but you kept asking for them, so “I had to do it my way”! (NC is a nod to Nancy C) So they landed at the ankle. But I thought they looked “weak” between the braids and foot.

Getting closer to the final design: simple braid at the top and initials or star motif above the thick braiding at the ankle. Just didn’t think the blue would appeal. I was wrong; those of you who have seen this partial, like it!

And here is the final Skiing Christmas stocking, in the red/green colorway.

The grey/maroon version is inspired by my sighting of grey-hooded teens in droves who wouldn’t be caught dead in any kind of color. Turns out it is a favorite colorway with you! It has lots of greens in it, which I really love.

If there were an army of elves at my “beck and call”, I would love to do a show of these stockings. Titled something like “All Alike, None the Same”. Then knit them up in at least 30 different colorways! It really is an easy stocking to change the colors. I bet I could do the original idea of pink, lavender and apple green without any trouble now.

Candy Cane

pollymac — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:31:36 +0000

dark red, green, pink, red

CANDY CANE, a playful nod to a classic Christmas treat, adds sparkle to many stocking combinations. It uses an additional 3.25mm (US 3) 16” circular needle and 1 skein each of 3 colors.

$7.00 pdf download.

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Cars and Trucks

pollymac — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:31:58 +0000

Cars and Trucks

CARS & TRUCKS says it all for boys of any age . . . except (probably) the cool teenager, who might like Skiing in grey. Put your special guy’s initials on it, and watch his face light up. Nine skeins of 8 different colors knits one stocking of any version.

$7.00 pdf download