The Yarniacs Episode 98: Knitting in Color

The Yarniacs: A Knitting Podcast

Gayle Billat & Sharlene Goings

Hobbies, Leisure, Crafts

4.7 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2015

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

It is said that first babies see movement, and soon can distinguish shades of blacks and whites, with other colors eventually becoming recognizable. As children grow, color often seems to play a role in their definition of self. "My favorite color is red," or "What's your favorite color?" are oft-heard conversation starters with the "under 10" set. Working in a yarn store, I commonly see shoppers carrying around yarns in colors that either match or complement the colors they are wearing. Some folks are surprised when I point this out. Others just smile and agree, that yes, they are always attracted to the same colors.

We are surrounded by color in design, fashion, and logos. Certain colors are appetizing, while an off-color food can spoil your appetite. School and sports team colors can inspire confidence, unity, and pride. When we dress for success, we attempt to present ourselves through style and color in a favorable way. Even the daily news is filled with stories about color related to race, gangs, and identity.

There's no denying that colors represent meaning, memories, and emotion; can affect commerce and how or where we spend our money; and influence our moods and feelings. If you've ever been unable to move forward on a project because you can't pick a color, or decided against purchasing some yarn because there wasn't a sweater quantity of that perfect color, then you too have witnessed the important role of color. In this episode Gayle and I scratch the surface on color talk and why we love our annual Colors of Fall Knit-a-long (KAL). There is a bit less knit talk this episode--an aberration for The Yarniacs if this is your first time listening--but we wanted to give color the time and space it deserves. We hope you will agree. We promise to be back next episode with our usual knit-filled segments.

- Sharlene

New Converse colors
Sharlene's blues
Sharlene's reds
Sharlene's purples
Sharlene's greys
Gayle's pinks
Gayle's greys
Gayle's blues
Gayle's blue-greens

Pantone's 50 years of color

Yarniacs Colors of Fall 2015 Finished Object thread

What are we knitting?
The Secret Garden KAL
Duchess of Devonshire by Kay Jones

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Yarniaks podcast.
0:10.2	This is episode 98, which we are recording on Tuesday, September 29th, 2015.
0:16.7	I'm Gail.
0:17.4	And I'm Charlene.
0:18.2	And we're doing things a little bit differently this episode.
0:21.6	Because it is the end of the colors of fall 2015 knit along, we wanted to focus most of
0:28.6	the episode on color.
0:30.6	So we're going to do some color chatting before we get into any regular segments, and that
0:36.3	will be time permitting.
0:37.4	So we'll see how it goes.
0:38.3	Charlene did a lot of research and suggestions for color-related topics we could discuss
0:44.3	and we were both just kind of swept away by the whole idea.
0:48.3	So, since it was your brilliant idea, I'll let you do all the intros.
0:52.3	Well, here's something fun that I just saw
0:55.2	a press release for today. Converse unveiled new Chuck Taylor colors. Do you know what Chuck
1:02.4	Taylor's are? They're the traditional Converse shoe. Josie loves those things. Oh, well, they
1:08.2	released two new colors for 2015. It's like Marcella and stormy weather. It is Marcella and stormy weather. Interesting, isn't it? Very interesting. They call them Bordeaux and Thunder. I would wear those, the high top converse, in a heartbeat, but they don't support my feet well enough. They don't. Every time I've ever worn more than converse my feet hurt I used to wear them when I was younger but you
1:31.0	can get inserts like converse for the elderly yeah yeah my son had to wear
1:40.3	inserts when he had oh oh, did he, he had some tendinitis, not tendonite, I, what he had to have
1:50.8	inserts for something for a while with his foot and he has since grown out of them.
1:55.1	And when I was getting the shin splints really bad, I started using his inserts in my shoe, and it really
2:03.6	seems to help.
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