[Nfb-krafters-korner] mid week question color?

[Dixie]

Oh, let's see.

My very favorite color is purple!  But, 
For colors to wear I tend towards red, navy, cranberry, tan, black, cream
and white.  
For decorating, I tend towards ocean colors, blues, tans beige and maybe a
touch of green.

In my crafting I tend towards historical colors.  I used to do mainly
embroidery work, and the things I tended to gravitate towards were antique
samplers.  Thos have colors like golds, browns, dark greens, dark reds, navy
those kind of colors on cream, or beige fabrics.

Linda, I still dream in full living color, and I am at 6 1/2 years blind.
Right now I see just black, I describe it as looking through black denim.
There is one spot about the size of a finger tip that is a bit lighter, kind
of like looking through the spot where the knees of the jeans are a bit
worn, but everything else is denim black.  So, when I dream I get to enjoy
those beautiful colors!  I also find that sometimes I am in my dream and i
am driving or something and I say to myself in the dream, "but, wait, you
are not allowed to do that you are blind, you better get that cane out to
help you find your way while you drive this car."  Hehahaha!    


Dixie who is presently making a red hat to match her red winter jacket on
the knifty knitter.

~ @-> ~ <-@ ~



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[mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of River Woman
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 8:20 AM
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Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] mid week question color?

I know what you mean by the different colors. I think, sometimes, that there

is no color that I do not like.  And, particularly in the season changes 
here in PA. Each season has it's own palette of colors, and they shift from 
one to the next in such a subtle way.

I used to say I hated yellow. I never wore yellow, because I am very fair 
and pastel colors do not look good on me at all. But, once I lost my sight 
and can no longer see myself in the mirror, I bought a YELLOW T-shirt when I

was in Puertoo Rico. I thought, "Well I cannot see myself in this shirt, so 
what the heck!"
 I bought it and I wear it all the time. I like this shirt and I think the 
reason why is that I am now set free from the self-judgements I made when I 
looked at myself in a particular color. Now, I wear the yellow shirt and it 
makes me feel happy to wear it.

In my closet are recurring colors: Purple/Orange/Turquoise/Deep Brown/Mossy 
Greens

That is my color palette. I interchange them all as I love any of these 
colors together. One color you will never find me wearing is gray. Never. I 
don't like gray at all. Not in a car, nor clothing, nor rooms, carpets, 
anything. I have never liked gray because I consider it to be a non-color 
and mousey and insipid. haha That is not me. Color, regardless of weather or

not I can see it, is still an enormous part of my life and always will be. I

have an excellent color memory and all someone has to do is to begin to 
describe a color to me, and I can see it clearly.

Thought I cannot see color much at all, I am very aware of color and my 
dreams are in full vivid color. I can also see perfectly well in my dreams. 
I have never been blind in any of my dreams. So I think that since I sleep 8

hours a day, I am only 66 percent  blind.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "qubit" <lauraeaves at yahoo.com>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] mid week question color?


> Hi Joyce --
> I don't have a favorite color, because different colors evoke different
> moods and feelings, and so sometimes I like one, and other times I like
> another.  Also different colors look especially good together, whereas
> others can be downright nauseating.
> I love bright colors, especially now that I have less vision than I have
> ever had and so only see color if it is especially bright.
>
> Also different colors and combinations are used for different purposes --
> for example, decorating a room you might use certain colors, but picking 
> out
> clothes that look good on you would require different colors.
> So I might have favorite colors to wear and different colors for different
> rooms of my house.  You can tell I'm a color freak.  But I do get moved by
> color, just like tastes in food.
>
> I hope I always see enough to see color, but I'm also prepared for 
> blindness
> if that is what comes. I just hope it won't.
>
> Happy krafting.
> --le
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <Blindhands at aol.com>
> To: <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 11:40 AM
> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] mid week question color?
>
>
> This is a question that was posted in the past, but the answers and
> explanations were all so interesting last time.
>
> What is your favorite color and why?  Does it come from memories of 
> colors
> or feelings?
>
> Joyce  Kane
> www.KraftersKorner.org  (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
> Blindhands at AOL.com
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