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February 22, 2006
A woman of a certain age
I could easily call this entry On Color Part 2 but that's not quite as catchy. Remember when I spoke about the recent facination with creams and browns? A fellow blogger mentioned that our color tastes change around menopause. No I am not getting too personal cause I don't think I am menopausal yet. But it got me to thinking about how certain colors grab us at certain phases in our lives. Kinda like how chocolate and icecream become the only food groups that matter once a month. Unless your a freak of nature and get into celery and carrots~ don't even talk to me if thats the case with you. This kinda ties into the color influencing designs bit. When you're a kidlet you might like bright bubble gum pink and lime green. You probably even looked cute in the combo as a rugrat. Of course if you were a young adult during the 80's you might even believe that is a steller color combo for a 20 something but the rest of the world figures it works til you hit your teens max. A lady I worked for many years ago was discussing color with me.... basically I spoke of my deap love of purple. I recall asking her if it was one of the more popular colors right up there with blue and she admitted that it was for a woman of a certain age. Hmmmmm I was of a certain age whatever that means. She mentioned it is often times followed by a deap love of red. Now normally I associate reds with certain conservative first ladies and not with me but lately I have been entranced with red. Good thing its the first color of Project Spectrum eh? So much so that last night I cast on a red project. Fickle me has cast aside the olympian project for which I need more yarn anyways and is ignoring the scarf I need to knit for work. I am a bad sample garment knitter. I am trucking along on the red project. And even if I weren't this has been weighing on my mind... the red following the purple phase. Cause my last living room set was purpley and this one is red. But I won't show you a picture quite yet. Look for redness tomorrow...
yarny days and knitterly evenings
Posted by Elka at February 22, 2006 09:26 PM
Comments
Elka- if you're inner color desire says red, then go with it. Because it could be yellow tomorrow. Metaphorically speaking.
Posted by: Lorraine The Knitting Hammy at February 23, 2006 07:56 AM
That's very interesting stuff! Me, I was a blue lover all through my childhood and well into my 20s. Now I'm thirty-*cough* and I'm all about the earth tones, the chocolate browns and the rusty oranges and reds and wines and (oddly) the spring greens. And I've discovered a new and rather disturbing love of pink, a color I used to scorn utterly. I've often wondered what exactly happened to change my ideas about color so profoundly. Maybe it's hormones, maybe it's just being utterly fed up with blue after wearing it almost exclusively for thirty-odd years. ;-)
Posted by: Beth S. at February 23, 2006 12:53 PM
Bold, brash, burning, bright, beautiful, raw, powerful, ripe, lush and magnificent Red! Enjoy :) It is currently my favorite color. I have been looking for a good red project but haven't found it yet. I look forward to seeing what you are up to!
Posted by: DeeAnn at February 23, 2006 06:20 PM