Where to find your next color palette
If you’ve looked through my portfolio, you may surmise that I love color. One of the advantages of making creative sites for creative people is that I’m not restricted to a conservative business palette.
So where do I get my color inspiration? “Everywhere” is the not-helpful answer, though it happens to be the real one. By that I mean that I’m always looking at color, and my camera is full of shots taken purely as color references. I’m always on the lookout for great color combinations in catalogs and online. But just as I would urge you to “read off-topic” to feed your writing muse, I urge you to “browse wacky” when you’re looking for color inspiration. Don’t only peruse the usual color, design and art suspects, good as these are. Be prepared to find great color in unexpected places.
My new color crush is Blonde Chicken Boutiques, on the Etsy craft network. The Blonde Chicken, aka Tara, sells hand-spun and hand-dyed yarn from local sheep and she has an amazing eye for color. Check out her Flickr set if you don’t believe me. Oh, and if you knit, this is definitely a wonderful source of yarn.
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Ohhh, you’re awakening my Inner Child’s crafting side with that lead. Thanks!
Glad to hear it, Casey!
I bought that skein today. (No, really.)
I have been pondering my options for a friend who knits. (I am still looking for someone to teach a left hand person.) Thanks for the tip.
Ann - who was looking to teach a left-handed person to knit,
My sister is left-handed and my mother taught her by sitting in front of my sister and basically being a ‘mirror’ to her. Whatever my mother did my sister copied but in reverse - if that makes sense [whereas to teach me she had to lean over me from behind]. It worked really well and my sister was knitting within a week and she was only about nine years old at the time.
Hope that helps.
Jennifer B
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