Knot Knecessarily Known Knitting

Do you ever have a series of happenings where some theme seems to repeat? Maybe you hear about an old movie you've always meant to watch, and then it comes up in a random trivia question, and then you are flipping through the channels and there it is. Sometimes it is as if the universe is pushing something under your nose and urging, "Look, dang it!" For me that seems to be color. I keep bumping into books and articles about it. I'm thinking about painting some interior walls and wondering what color combinations will work best? I'm growing weary of a gray spinning project gone on too long and eyeing the crazy rainbow roving I bought in Pittsburgh. Here are some of the resources I've been enjoying. From a Mensa weekly newsletter was a link to this article on the Neuroscience News website about how colors have similar emotional associations in different parts of the world. There is some variance by culture, especially when certain cultures use specific colors ...

I must admit, this is another of those projects that probably doesn't have enough "Wow!" factor given the amount of time. The pattern comes from a 1989 Annie's Attic pamphlet titled "My Wild Irish Bows." As you might guess from the name, the collection of seven designs are all hair accessories worked in traditional Irish crochet motifs. The samples in the booklet were worked entirely in white size 10 crochet cotton, with the exception of one project worked in size 5 crochet cotton. I got the pamphlet at a North Georgia Knitting Guild meeting. I believe the guild library was destashing. Since this booklet is all crochet projects, it didn't really fit in. For some reason, I looked at the project labeled "Flower Fall" and thought it looked like a spray of African violets. I decided to work it in color. I finished the little violets in short order (using a 1.65mm metal crochet hook). But then I tried the leaves and wasn't happy with the ...