ConnieLene – KnitDesigner

One thing I had not realised as I was preparing for the Colour Play exhibition to which I knew the Vogue Knitting tour group with Carla Scott and Nickey Epstein were attending, was that I had any hot pink yarns at all.

Melissa had said to me that I had to create a jacket, or waistcoat in hot pink as this was the in colour for 2007. I didn’t really believe her and I couldn’t rush out to buy a substantial range of yarns and colours in hot pink because that meant going to many shops all over Auckland to look for a good range – and there was no time to do that on top of creating the garments that I had already planned.

So we hunted through my stash – and to my amazement I had a lot of hot pinks or other colours to blend and balance with my hot pinks and so I created the “Hot Pink” sleeveless jacket. It turned out a real stunner and Melissa claimed it as her own as she had made me create something different, something very different. This really was playing with colour for the “Colour Play” exhibition.