54: the joy (horror) of beige. | The Crimson Stitchery Knitting Podcast
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- Alert! When it comes to colour, beige is my vanilla. But is it safe and boring, or a yummy comforting biscuit? In this month's knitting podcast I'm finding my assumptions challenged as I get weirdly drawn to a colour that makes me look naked...!
I'm also enjoying cables! My new hat design for Hudson + West Co is Kolsch, and features lots and lots of cables inside diamond-shaped frames. Glorious! It's released on 27 April.
Poetry returns to The Crimson Stitchery as I've discovered a lovely poem by Marie Howe about a plague of mysterious scissors. It's not clear what metaphors are lurking beneath the words - give me your best guess in the comments below :)
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I’m watching this for the first time in April 2023 and commenting without reading the previous comments. First off it was a great choice of poetry. As a maker (sewing and knitting) I love scissors and have many pairs some inherited from my mother and grandmother. It struck me the scissors are a metaphor for sharp and/or uncomfortable feelings. I lost my mother in July 2019 and then the COVID-19 Pandemic struck. Anxiety, fear, loss of family, loss of getting together with family and friends, depression etc all have been so prevalent for me. In the poem gathering up all the scissors and putting them outside in the winter cold and snow to be revealed as having disappeared as the snow melts away leaving the good earth beneath to be revived by new growth and a new season much as what’s happening seasonally now. Celebrating living life and creativity and celebrating being fortunate enough to do that as you’ve spoken of before.
I understood the scissors to be a metaphor for seasonal depression, how it builds through the dark months and recedes in the spring, and how that feeling or memory of SAD can linger. Thanks for sharing!
Thats certainly a very plausible connection 🙂 thank you!
Hi Anushka, your socks immediately made me think of blackcurrant and liquorice sweets! How about a papershop sweets themed collection (the type you get in big jars from newsagents, weighed out and sold in paper bags)? There's quite a few interesting textures to explore e.g. Crunchy Raspberries and blackberries & cinder toffee. Happy making!
Ooh I love that suggestion!
I second this - and I am looking forward to the collection.
I totally understand your challenge with avoiding certain neutral colours Anushka! For me, it's pinky-beige colours -- they wash me right out or just look too much like my skin tone for comfort. That beige yarn looks lovely -- I think of it more like a mushroom brown -- such a lovely colour that I agree would work on a lot of skin tones.
Congratulations on your Kolsch hat design! It look so lovely and rich with cables! You're always so thoughtful with the stitch details of your patterns.
Your hat is so lovely! The stitch definition is great! 😁
As for the poem, I interpreted it as something intrusive, like intrusive thoughts, especially the ones you have when you don't feel so good mentally (when depressed for example). Especially when she talks about how she's worried that her guests might notice. There's this tendency to try to hide it when things aren't going well. And then somehow, unexpectedly, these bad feelings vanish, leaving a fleeting memory, just like smells and perfumes do, which might be why she talked avout the smell of metal.
In any case I really enjoyed your reading 😄 take care!
Hi! Just wanted to thank you for the poem, it's so lovely and eerie (I am a fan of horror ❤️)
As a linguistics professor, I really appreciated your bringing it up and your comment on the sound of consonants. I've been watching your videos for quite some time and I really love the way you talk about knitting and other crafts. I relate a lot to the handwork vs. brainwork of doing crafts and academia together. Sending love from Brazil :*
Thanks, Ana! 🥰
To me the scissors felt like depression/self-harming compulsion. At first you're only tempted when you see the item, but slowly it takes over. But then she found a way to get her mind off of it for a while and when the light came back in spring she found she didn't even think about it any more. Might just be my life experiences making me see it that way, but it was immediately what I heard.
It's a valid interpretation 😙
It felt the same to me, maybe because I just finished my mental health rotation in nursing school. The line "I longed/ to throw them out, but how could I get rid of something/ that felt oddly like grace?" sounds so similar to something a patient told me about her own experience with self-harm - how she wanted to stop, but it was one of the only times she felt clarity. I hope that she finds the spring, and I hope that you and yours are safe and well
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Maybe your aversion to beige is a colour theory thing? I find seasonal colour theory works for me and before I knew about it, I always gravitated towards the colours it says suit me anyway. And I hated purple for years, probably because the shades I was going for didn't suit me. Even if I saw purple on something I wasn't wearing, I didn't like it. But a switch flipped overnight last year and now I love the aubergine end of the spectrum. Keeping an open mind for colours is fun, and I feel like the colours we naturally gravitate towards tell us so much by themselves.
ETA: Maybe your thing is beiges/neutrals with green undertones and that harmonises with your skin best.
There's definitely something about warm and cool tones!
I think it was a trend some time ago to wear dresses and tops in the colour of your skin, especially under blazers and such. The trend had its charm and I am now tempted to actually make a me-coloured oversized cabel sweater after your comment 🙊
Sounds great!
Enjoyed your video. Your hat is really a good design. I am going to show my age now. I had to have a wicker basket for my Home Economics/Cookery lessons in school to carry all the ingredients for creating some biscuits or cakes. I loved my basket.
That sounds absolutely lovely! I wish I had such a souvenir, let alone all the cakes!
I love the poetry chat! To me, the scissors seem like a metaphor for micro-aggressions or back-handed compliments, so when she exposes them to the light they stop bothering her. I love that color and to me it's more fawn than beige. Great episode!
That's so interesting! Definitely a valid interpretation
I loved your poetry reading and interpretation I also see the scissors as a metaphor for industriousness and I am thinking they signify her busy work life balance demands and a need for her to change this. When we are busy with work stress and deadlines it is on our minds constantly sometimes without knowing it and the scissors showing up everywhere show this to me that her subconscious is telling her she is needing change. Also that she is worried of what her family will think as they may also have identified to her needs to change and find work less stressful. Scissors are a very useful tool and when used they create change from the item being made and change or metamorphosis to me is the message of the poem, putting them in the snow was the beginning of her change process and choosing a more settled life. Once starting this change she is amazed and when she sees the stress is gone all that is left is the memory and a lingering smell of metal . Love Pinterest and its photos would love to see your boards, thankyou for another awesome video. ❤️💕
The scissor poem to me sounds like a metaphor about either self harm ideation or OCD intrusive thoughts.
Also, I love your cabled hat pattern! I actually wrote a poem that heavily featured tree roots for Latin class in high school, to bring it all together lol. It was about Daphne turning into a tree to escape Apollo.
Thank you for sharing the tragic and beautiful poem which to my ear cries at the will to live and how to live when life feels futile.
The scissors poem was funny at first as scissors disappear in our house 🤣then it became creepy when she discovered them under her pillow 😳
Hey, lovely to see your new episode. I had to laugh sitting in a bus in bosnia in my, beige cloth. The scissors might stand for thoughts and overthinking. You need to use the scissors to cut them off. Thoughts pop up everywhere often unwanted and uncontrolled. You even take them with you to bed. They get moreand might hunt you. You might be ashamed if others knew them. They can hurt you. You could use them to change your life as a haircut. But if you lay, tgem out and look at them from a different angle they, vanish themselves. That's obviously just my, thoughts on this poem. Have a, lovely day.
I'm very wary about hat patterns because I'm so picky about the fit. I love the Oslo by Petite Knit and Musselburgh by Ysolda if you're after a very very plain project. I also hate beige unless it's the perfect shade. I have a really pink cool skin tone and issues with redness, so some beiges wash me out in the opposite way lol. Cream and gray and silver for me!
Thank you for these recommendations!
Hello, do you happen to have your modifications posted anywhere for the t-shirt you're wearing, I love the neckline, its beautiful. Can you share the stitch pattern for the neckline?
Pinterest boards are super useful for me if I'm writing and putting together a tabletop roleplay campaign, or for communicating costume guides / requirements at LARP (live role play) events if I am writing the game!
I have just started to follow patterns and I want to do cabling and I have just started to crochet which I want to start to do
Re: the winter/cabled sock theme: I think warm winter drinks would be a lovely naming scheme! Hot spiced apple cider, hot chocolate (or perhaps marshmallows), some sort of coffee beverage, etc.
Thanks for the suggestion!
I was thinking of coffees too 👍🏻
How funny. I’ve been thinking about scissors lately because alot seem to be appearing in my life at the moment. I used to have a recurring dream that I could fly but only when I had my sketchbook open. It felt like the open sketchbook was my wings. I feel like the scissors are a metaphor for creativity and they’re trying to draw attention to the dweller to make something. The dweller is feeling stuck though and can’t think of anything more creative than cutting her hair although she knows that’s not the thing. Sadly the scissors disappear in the Spring without her discovering what it is she needs to create. The faint metal smell left by the scissors is a reminder that she is still unfulfilled. The smell will probably get stronger again and the scissors may come back and be more insistent until the dweller finds herself.
The scissors were to cut something out of her life and her putting them out and that they disappeared in the spring was that she had cut out that thing that had to go. They are a tool to cut something out, That is what I get out of this. As for your dislike of Beige , there is nothing wrong with that. I have many colors that I find I really can not wear or will not wear. Our tastes in colors as in food change.
I like that interpretation 🙂
Perhaps the scissors are a Metaphor for self criticism. They are everywhere you are.
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Sorry, when I say neckline, I mean neck edgeing, normally where the ribbing would be.
I felt like the scissors could be addiction. Any addiction really, which is why I think she left it ambiguous, because everyone has their own vices. Any addiction could start innocently and become overwhelming. But I felt like the winter activity of laying all the scissors out on the lawn was maybe her way of 'putting it all out there' so that the Winter snow could help wash it all away. Then I felt like the Spring was the sense of what it feels like when the addiction has passed; you still have the memory and some scars from it (like the smell), but it's gone.
I felt the same frustration you felt whenever approaching Andrea Mowry's weird way to give you gauge.
Always encountered some sort of problem.
I ended up stopping buying her patterns, to be honest with you. Out of the hype but less frustrated.
I feel your brioche hat struggle. I made a brioche cowl and it is very stretchy , rubbery? Almost accordion like. You just have to go with it. But I made sure to have a garter brim / edging otherwise it wouldn't 1 have come together.
Lovely hat
Thank you 😊
Haha, my skin colour is quite similar to yours and believe me, you would indeed look camouflaged in a beige (like that) sweater. I´ve (inadvertently) been there...😁
I am SO. Grateful for this tip 😆
@@TheCrimsonStitchery 🙃😄 I just grinned when you talked about it because, of course, I hadn´t noticed my bad colour choice myself but it was pointed out to me. Talk about embarrassing. On the other hand, it could have been a styling choice, couldn`t it?
Beige can be beautiful! Check out camel cashmere
Ooh sounds luxurious....lovely
It's kind of hard to find colors for me because my ethnicity (American Indian/Alaskan Native), skin color (tan-light brown), hair color (black), and mood (casual) determines what color my shirt is each day (mostly grey and black each day). I have neutral undertones, so I'm mostly drawn to dark blues, dark reds, black, white, and grey, which is the colors of most of my projects.
Name suggestions for your cabled sock collection: Twisted Vines Collection, Casobleck (Kah-sew-blehk ((combination of "cable" and "sock")) Collection, Winding Stitches Collection, Tree Vines Collection, Twisted Socks Collection, or Cold Weather Socks Collection (since you have a collection of socks designed for the summer, so why not have some for the winter?).
I also like the poem that you gave. After listening, my interpretation of the poem is this:
The scissors remind the author of a task forgotten that must be done, or the pressure to perform the task of cutting her hair continues to make her life difficult.
I'm almost finished with a scarf I was commissioned to make for $20 (about 15.59 pounds), which is brioche and based off of one Harry Styles wore (the colors are light green and pink). Struggling to find a project for a beautiful 100% single ply wool yarn (which is Niceec Rainbow Singles Soft Radient in the color Rainbow; I have 3 balls in my stash), but I might consider buying and making your Bundle of Stars shawl.
Thanks so much James!