Comments on: Bad Hair Day

By: Susan A Buffalo Gal

Susan A Buffalo Gal — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:18:26 +0000

Wear!!!

By: diane

diane — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:06:14 +0000

Just a late comment to wish Sheri a Very Happy Birthday!

As to colors, I tend to buy yarn in colors that I love. The problem is that once I have the yarn, I have to find the perfect pattern for it, and I agonize over whether I’ve made the right choices to show off the yarn to best advantage. I don’t worry as much about this with socks, which is why I’m knitting mostly socks lately! I have yarn for a couple of shawls, but hate to start if I’m not absolutely certain that the yarn and pattern are a perfect match – which is why I have not started a shawl yet. Must find the courage to just jump in!

By: Robby

Robby — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:40:11 +0000

First, I tend to wear the colors I love, so no problem. Now, bad hair day? Do you remember the mini-series ‘Roots’? Around that time my mother got a perm in her short hair. For at least a couple of years she was known fondly around the house as ‘Kizzy”. Later, during yet another scary hair of the 70′s/80′s moment, Mom was referred to as Tina Turner, again it was fondly. Finally, around the time the James Bond movie with Grace Jones came out, Dad suggested Mom consider a flat-top. As you can see, Mom, and her hair, is a good sport.

By: rohanknitter

rohanknitter — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 03:38:44 +0000

Ha! Love that snowman. Once we were in a novelty hat shop, and my middle son found a hat that was a red dragon with yellow horns sprouting out all over it’s head. He proclaimed, hey, this looks like mom in the morning!! (yes, we bought the hat)

By: Seanna Lea

Seanna Lea — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 18:21:39 +0000

I wear a lot of black and jewel tones, so I go out of my way to knit things for myself that either go well with those colors or are those colors. I also don’t care what color my socks are, so I will happily wear my almost neon yellow socks with as much glee as my almost black madeline tosh socks (I cannot remember her yarn color names to save my life).

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:55:10 +0000

I never thought about why I never where anything I knit but it is partially color also. I tend to just knit with whatever color strikes my fancy or that I have on hand. I must mostly knit to knit and don’t think about the finished product. Must be why I have given one friend two shawls recently. She loves them and wears them where if I kept them, they would just take up space in the hope chest.

By: Lisa J

Lisa J — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:39:22 +0000

How funny! I just read this post (sorry to be late) and see you are going to use Basalt for your next project… I ordered that very same colorway on Tuesday and am petting it right now! It is a lovely yarn. Thank you for adding it to the shop.

By: Agatha

Agatha — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:22:55 +0000

Ugh, I so rarely wear what I knit. And yes, color is a part of the reason for that, because like you I’m drawn to certain colors for certain projects regardless of if they’ll match my wardrobe or not. But another part of it is that I’m so scared I’ll spill something, snag it, or otherwise ruin it. That, and I hate washing and reblocking!

By: Margie

Margie — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 21:25:37 +0000

I love the snowman…that’s actually how my hair is supposed to look but lots shorter. I figure if I keep it moussed “messed up” then no one can tell I can’t do a thing with it!!!! I typically go with autumnal colors because of my red hair but lately I’ve been trying to step outside my comfort zone. 2011 is all about making things for me so right now I’m working on a shawl in black, shades of grey and red. Not sure how I’ll like this but we’ll see. I have in the past actually bought shirts to go with socks I’ve knitted. Unfortunately my baby cat, Pearl, ate my favorite socks that went with the red shirt. I’m going to have to remake them and the yarn is out of stock. Pearl ate a pair of size 1 bamboo needles this past week. She is grounded until Easter!!

By: Tamara

Tamara — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:21:27 +0000

Alot of times I pick yarn out just because of the colorway, not necessarily because it will go with my wardrobe. When I am knitting for others I try to knit with colors that I know they will wear. I wear mary janes so I love to knit brightly colored socks to show off! I have an issue with picking out the wrong color when I knit lace. I always tend to pick darker colors than I should that don’t show off the lace as well as a lighter color. Knowing that, you’d think I would change my evil ways!