Colors

 Today I reflect on colors. Many times I am asked about the colors I choose to knit. I love all colors and choose those colors that are bright, bold, and connect with nature. 

Colors can represent many different feelings and mean many things. At times I choose earthy colors that represent things found in nature. Greens, beiges, browns, and blues can create water, the earth, dirt, or even the beautiful plants that emerge from these colors. I often find myself thinking about how I feel when knitting with a specific color. Earthy colors offer a calmness and brighter colors almost shout out strong feelings of joy, courage, or love. 

Colors can be what we see in them that connect us to a feeling we have. For me, I choose earthy colors as a way to help represent the natural world and the different elements; fire, water, air, and earth. Each of these elements can be represented in my knitting creations. 

I use all my knitting scarps to create less waste and many times I am not sure of how the colors will weave together or what they might represent until I am done with a project. 

Colors offer me a sense of joy and happiness because it is my choice and creating knitted products that are sustainable, utilitarian, and reusable gives me a sense of satisfaction and a feeling of hope, that I am helping to bring awareness of how we can all help care for the world and be less wasteful by being mindful of reducing our own waste and reusing products.

Knitting with various colors can represent feelings, places, images, and natural things found in the world. My color schemes are random, at times specific, and represent an element in the natural world.