Secret Stash Club Reveal: Lizzy Line
Inspired by my family’s summer trip to London, our November Secret Stash Club colourway “Lizzy Line” is a fun play with colour — our challenge of creating a colourway that would generate a sense of movement. With purple in light, medium, and dark shades, plus white, grey, and hits of red and blue, your eyes flutter between one point and another point. In addition to the handwoven sample created at our studio, we’re absolutely excited to see what you create with it!
LIZZY LINE COLOURWAY INSPIRATION
Back in the summer, my family and I travelled to London for a visit. London has always been one of my absolute favourite places — it’s the source of so much creative inspiration for me. As I shared in a previous Taking Back Friday episode, my most memorable weaving inspiration comes from visiting the little retail shop for Wallace Sewell. A weaving studio which has been instrumental in working with the Transport for London (TFL) and designing the moquettes (upholstery fabric) for many of the London Underground trains, including the District, Bakerloo, and Elizabeth Lines.
This month’s colourway “Lizzy Line” is inspired by the moquette of the Elizabeth Line. It is a purple pinstripe pattern that is designed to convey a sense of speed. Your eyes kind of flutter between one point and another point. I feel like they kind of flick back and forth in a way.
There are a lot of elements at play here: contrast of colour featuring purple in light, medium, and dark shades, plus white, grey, and hits of red and blue. There is also a regular vertical stripe pattern happening, so it’s creating rhythm and repetition. At the same time, there is a horizontal stripe happening that is creating the irregular balance and movement. It’s like being jostled from one spot to the next spot. I find it fascinating to see how all these elements work together.
The challenge here was to see if we could create a colourway that would also generate that sense of movement. Our team dyer, Hoi, worked tirelessly to sample multiple rounds of this colourway and worked with new materials, including a dye thickening agent that would allow us to create sharper, more saturated spots of colour.
PROJECT IDEAS FOR THIS MONTH’S CLUB
Being inspired by a woven fabric that has strong vertical and horizontal blocks, I would love to see the Lizzy Line colourway pool. Maybe knitting socks will cause the colours to stack. The Over Easy Socks design by Holli Yeoh could look interesting in this yarn. Or maybe knitting a short width in garter stitch could produce an effect of a colourful horizontal line.
SweetGeorgia team member, Charlotte, used the November Club colourway in creating a warp faced, plain weave scarf. It was woven on a rigid heddle loom using a 15 dent reed, using our new SweetGeorgia 20/2 Mulberry Silk yarn in Twilight as the weft. It creates the effect of lines of colour moving vertically through the cloth.
JOIN THE CLUB CONVO
Whether you knit, crochet, weave, or something else, join us over at our crafty community at the SweetGeorgia Discord server. We would love to hear your thoughts on this yarn of the month, and to see what you make with it. We’ve created a special section just for our Secret Stash Club and we’ll create a new thread for each new delivery. Join the convo at: https://discord.gg/5Y4Z9rybAa
You can find some of our Club colourway project samples at the Project Index »
As well, you can see a closer look of this colourway reveal at our November SweetGeorgia livestream »
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