KCBWDAY4: Colour Review

Day Four (Thursday April 25th): Colour ReviewWhat are your favourite colours for knitted or crocheted projects. Have a think about what colours you seem to favour when yarn shopping and crafting.

Only after writing this part of your post should you then actually look to see what colours you have used in your projects. Make a quick tally of what colours you have used in your projects over the past year and compare it to the colours you have written about. Compare this, in turn, to the colours that are most dominant in your yarn stash – do they correlate?

Now think back to your house animal - do the colours you have chosen relate to your animal in anyway - if you are in the house of peacock, for example, are your projects often multicoloured and bright?


Hi,

Well pink is pretty much one of my favourite colours so I am often drawn to that but when it comes to yarn I generally just go for BRIGHT! as I really like to make cute little amigurmi characters and toys and I often feel bright makes them look the most cute and fun :) Though I find myself drifting to more and more pastel colours like lilac, baby blue and cotton candy pink- probably because they are cute too (and as can be guessed from the name of my blog I really like cute things :), however they are a bit more subtle. My current preference for pastels in projects will probably reflect itself in my crafting stash soon however currently it just looks like a rainbow has been put in a blender :P - Very very bright and lots of variety, which is good really because it makes me happy when I look at it and I always have the colour I need :)

 

I suppose my projects/stash do reflect my house animal the bee as bees love bright colours, like those of flowers and love to buzz from one colour flower to the next to the next just like me and my choice of colour for projects!

See you all tomorrow :D

Bye xxx

3KCBWDAY1- Colour Lovers

Hi everyone :)  
     

Today is the first day of the annual knitting and crochet blog week! I am very excited as I had such fun taking part last year :-)

   

  

Todays challenge: Colour Lovers Colour is one of our greatest expressions of ourselves when we choose to knit or crochet, so how do you choose what colours you buy and crochet or knit with. Have a look through your stash and see if there is a predominance of one colour. Do the same with your finished projects - do they match? Do you love a rainbow of bright hues, or more subdued tones. How much attention do you pay to the original colour that a garment is knit in when you see a pattern? Tell readers about your love or confusion over colour.

  

Really I usually just go with the flow with colour, unless I am trying to make something resemble in particular e.g I had to do bright orange for my brother's mini ami astronaut :) My stash is pretty unbiased really I have got a bright and dark shade for all the colours going! See:

 

   

When I start a project it doesn't often take me long t o decide on colour I just look in my stash and whatever takes me is what I go with, sometimes when I look in my stash I think 'oohh If I make it in that colour then I have this ribbon that would look good and oooh those buttons I bought a while ago and....' and then I get started. Other times when I am not as clear on what I want to make I take one ball I like and pick up another ball one by one and place it next to the other ball until I find two colours I think really complement each other and let the ideas flow from there. And Some other times I know exactly what I want and go to my stash to find it! lol!, As you can see I really don't have a strategic plan :P

  

I like pretty much all colours as there is always a use for every one and inspiration can be found in each one and similarly each one can make beautiful things :-)

     

When I look at patterns, again, sometimes I pay attention to the colour and sometimes not. Occasionally I don't even see the original colour I see it in a completely different colour, the colour I think it would be perfect in and then I head to the yarn shop and buy that!

  

At Christmas I find the amount of red and green I use increases though, as they make me feel super festive! Different colours do make me feel different things, for example red usually makes me feel warm and reminds me of apples and orchards and forests and kind of autumny whereas pink makes me think of summer and fun and being young (I wore quite a lot of pink when I was younger :0) If a certain design makes me feel a certain thing then I usually choose the colour to match those feelings.

  

It was such fun thinking about colour as part of today's challenge, I don't think I have ever thought about it soo much before, as I say it usually makes me feel things

 but I have never tried to write these feelings down!

 

I can't wait for day 2! (And I am looking forward to finding out what all my blogging friends think about colour too :)

 

See you all then,

 

Byeeeeeeeee xxxxx