color

My friend Kawanna asked if I find myself using the same colors when I knit.  snerk  Kawanna and I know each other as professional colleagues.  giggle  So I thought I would take this opportunity to develop my skills with photo editing software, particularly Picassa, to make a collage of the first, oh, 12-14 yarns either in my stash or recently used that showed up in my photo albums.  snort 

 The color range in the yarn closet runs from blue (and unseen in this collage is the cobalt blue Hempathy, the powder blue sock yarn, the intense blue Lavold Silky Wool), to teal (actually my mother once asked if I ever knit in any color other than teal), to purples, to greens (especially sage and herb greens, nothing with much yellow).  Within this rigid personal spectrum, there is some variation.  I am no longer buying teal.  I AM buying blue and sage green.  Oh, and I just ordered some periwinkle blue.

Hmm.  Looks like it will fit right in.  But really, I am not adding any more teal.  Or aqua.  Or turquoise.

Everyone else at worked would have laughed at Kawanna's question, since they just assume that everything I own is either teal or some form of blue.  Occasionally I find some red in the yarn stash, or in the closet, and stare at it in some bafflement. I love it, but I am not sure how to wear it with all the teal and blue. And for some reason I love pink sock yarn.  My favorite pair of handknit socks are pink.  Hmm.  I think I need more pink sock yarn. Stop!! Bad obsessive yarn buyer!  Bad!

I am pushing the choices toward greener-than-teal greens.  And I am eager to finish these socks so I can start the next cardigan on my to-do list, in a dark gorgeous purple that I have had in the yarn stash for a while.  The one after that will be a light green.  So I am moving away from teal, though the motion appears to be the same one used by people slowly being sucked into quicksand.  

Now when Kawanna moved a few weeks ago, I gave her a going away present: a huuuuuge bag full of yarn.  And it was all colors of yarn, often just one skein of a color.  I acquired it in individual skeins for classes and workshops,  and at obsessive-yarn-buyer sales.  And I think there was a big batch of gorgeous red tweed in there, wasn't there?  So I can see how she didn't realize that I apparently knit in a very small slice of the spectrum pie.  Or as my mother said, "Robbie, do you ever knit with any other color?"

Comments

[knottedfingers]

Wow! Really strange coincidence here. We decided to petition for the Awareness color of the infection that killed my daughter to be periwinkle! So this post made me smile!! i love periwinkle!

[Kawanna]

Yes, there is a gorgeous red tweed in there and I plan to make something fantastic with it...someday! HeHe!!!

[Anne]

haha - I think of you every time I see teal/aqua yarn!