Color Meme
Fall is a season of colors, yeah!
1. What is your current favorite color? green
2. Had your favorite color changed over the years? It's been green for a few years, but before that I liked purple and blue. Now I like them all together!
3. Is your current favorite color one that is currently trendy? (Do you see it in the fashion rags or on the clothes rack or in the linen aisle right now? How about 5 years ago?) Well, I think green in general can be hard to wear. The wrong shade can make you look sickly and too bright of a shade makes you look like a box of crayola. I saw a lot of green two years ago and last year, too. I think now more of an avacado appliance shade is in, just like back in the 70s. I personally like deep jewel toned green and yes, that 90s standby, "hunter" green.
4. What is your favorite color combination? I like a vivid sort of turquoise with purple and a very deep green. Weird, I know. I like to think of it as very Ninja Turtles. You know, Donatello and Leonardo, brains and grace under pressure. I realize that this is incredibly geeky. That's what I like to LOOK at, although when I dress or knit I tend to just pull stuff out of the pile based on whether or not it is appropriate with whatever else I have on hand.
5. Is that combination a popular one? Uh...no.
6. What is your favorite way of using color in your knitting? (Are you a stranded knitter? Do you prefer simple stripes? Do you prefer just accents at the hems/collars?) I am not a fan of colorways unless we're talking small items. I like stranded knitting and I like bi or tri color fair isle work. I think colorwork looks best with three or fewer colors, otherwise you tend to end up with that Grandma's Old Afghan sort of effect.
7. What colors look good on you? Michelle at work always tells me that blue brings out my pretty eyes. Of course, I never hear men say anything like this, so what do I know. I think I look best in deep, cool jewel tones since I have cool toned skin, barring that, I can wear pastels only if they are cool (cotton candy pinks, violets.)
8. What colors look bad on you? Anything too warm makes me look jaundiced. I think "color" isn't so much of a factor as the tone of the color. For example, I can wear deep toned fall colors up by my face, but we'd want to keep the tan away. Yellows and reds are hard for me to wear, unless we get into the bastard shades where they're more like a blend of two colors than straight yellow or red.
9. Do you wear colors that don’t look good on you just because you like them? Sometimes. I've work shirts and felt ugly all day in them only to realize after a few wearings that the color just isn't me. I used to try to wear red, but I have to be very careful with red. I try not to buy things that won't look good against my skin, or I'll wear that color on my underwear or socks or something.
10. What is your favorite neutral color? black to wear, light tan in objects
11. Is there a sweater pattern that uses more than one color that you’d like to make, but you wish to change the colors from what is published? Ha ha ha, keeping things in the color they are published. Ha ha ha ha ha!!!!! I'd love to try knitting either a super trendy novelty sweater in classic neutrals and see how it turns out. Vice versa, I could totally see doing an argyle sweater in army green, turquoise and lilac.
1. What is your current favorite color? green
2. Had your favorite color changed over the years? It's been green for a few years, but before that I liked purple and blue. Now I like them all together!
3. Is your current favorite color one that is currently trendy? (Do you see it in the fashion rags or on the clothes rack or in the linen aisle right now? How about 5 years ago?) Well, I think green in general can be hard to wear. The wrong shade can make you look sickly and too bright of a shade makes you look like a box of crayola. I saw a lot of green two years ago and last year, too. I think now more of an avacado appliance shade is in, just like back in the 70s. I personally like deep jewel toned green and yes, that 90s standby, "hunter" green.
4. What is your favorite color combination? I like a vivid sort of turquoise with purple and a very deep green. Weird, I know. I like to think of it as very Ninja Turtles. You know, Donatello and Leonardo, brains and grace under pressure. I realize that this is incredibly geeky. That's what I like to LOOK at, although when I dress or knit I tend to just pull stuff out of the pile based on whether or not it is appropriate with whatever else I have on hand.
5. Is that combination a popular one? Uh...no.
6. What is your favorite way of using color in your knitting? (Are you a stranded knitter? Do you prefer simple stripes? Do you prefer just accents at the hems/collars?) I am not a fan of colorways unless we're talking small items. I like stranded knitting and I like bi or tri color fair isle work. I think colorwork looks best with three or fewer colors, otherwise you tend to end up with that Grandma's Old Afghan sort of effect.
7. What colors look good on you? Michelle at work always tells me that blue brings out my pretty eyes. Of course, I never hear men say anything like this, so what do I know. I think I look best in deep, cool jewel tones since I have cool toned skin, barring that, I can wear pastels only if they are cool (cotton candy pinks, violets.)
8. What colors look bad on you? Anything too warm makes me look jaundiced. I think "color" isn't so much of a factor as the tone of the color. For example, I can wear deep toned fall colors up by my face, but we'd want to keep the tan away. Yellows and reds are hard for me to wear, unless we get into the bastard shades where they're more like a blend of two colors than straight yellow or red.
9. Do you wear colors that don’t look good on you just because you like them? Sometimes. I've work shirts and felt ugly all day in them only to realize after a few wearings that the color just isn't me. I used to try to wear red, but I have to be very careful with red. I try not to buy things that won't look good against my skin, or I'll wear that color on my underwear or socks or something.
10. What is your favorite neutral color? black to wear, light tan in objects
11. Is there a sweater pattern that uses more than one color that you’d like to make, but you wish to change the colors from what is published? Ha ha ha, keeping things in the color they are published. Ha ha ha ha ha!!!!! I'd love to try knitting either a super trendy novelty sweater in classic neutrals and see how it turns out. Vice versa, I could totally see doing an argyle sweater in army green, turquoise and lilac.
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