Taighean - Child Mittens

Taighean - Child Mittens

‘Taighean’, which means ‘houses’ in Scots Gaelic, is based on a repetitive little house motif and uses numerous shade combinations. Each house row is in a different shade, in a sort of gradient and it is offset by half a motif from the previous row. With this design, I tried to give justice to my memories of colours seen during my past travels to Scotland. I first published Taighean as adult fingerless mitts in Colour Moves. As it is a playful design, I decided to use the same motif for children’s mittens in two sizes. The small size (2-4-year-old) uses 7 shades, while the large size (5-7-year-old) uses 8 shades of Kate Davies Designs Milarrochy Tweed.