Colour is the single most important thing to me in my
designs, so I was intrigued when a friend recently announced she doesn’t like
blue. She was very adamant about
it.
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| Chrissie Freeth - Weaver |
Chrissie’s strong opinion on a particular colour may have
puzzled some, but I liked her definite, no-fence-sitting taste, partly because
I thought I was the same. A couple of
decades ago I made a similar statement about orange. I think I called it an “unnecessary colour” !
There was a phase when I hated all things blue too. And, after years of shunning it, I find
yellow creeping into some new designs.
It’s taken me aback a bit because as a rule I don’t have anything
yellow. Even the garden is pretty
yellow-free apart from the obligatory daffs.
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| My grandmother's amber earings |
But I had a look through my scrap-book last night and found
some yellow things. They are mostly
verging on the orange side of yellow, or the mustard side of yellow, or the
green side of yellow, but I’ve obviously been warming to it for some time. There
was a definite moment when things changed though, and it's not just the anticipation of spring. Someone gave me a metre of ochre satin, and when
I got home I rather dismissively dumped it on the table on top of some grey
wool… and I was smitten.
So the problem is not these rogue colours, it’s what to put
them with. I knew that really, didn’t I ? It’s after all, the single most
important thing in my designs.
Here's some more yellow things I'm liking:
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