Red is a colour seldom seen on these pages, and I hesitate to enlarge the picture as when I did so in draft it seemed slightly out of place! But you can click to make it bigger, and you'll see the fuchsia and the chocolate cosmos alongside the traffic light/pillarbox/Guardsman's tunic scarlet yarn.
Visiting the writer Mary Hoffman's site the other day I read that she dislikes blue "except in the sea, the sky and flowers". My whole life would be dressed in shades of blue if I didn't consciously pull myself away from it to look at other colours and include them - which I do. I even wear this shade of red sometimes!
I'm with you, I wear blue quite a lot but I have no red in my wardrobe. When in London this May I did buy a skein of wool for socks that was a sort of burnt red, it had a vintage look to me that I liked. It's a good place to start I suppose.
Posted by: Darlene | 02 August 2009 at 02:39 PM
I'm an autumn/red girl through and through!! Love, love, love the red mosaic!!!
Of late, I've been gravitating toward blues and some greens, but I can never resist red. Not ever.
Posted by: Neuroknitter | 02 August 2009 at 05:24 PM
Greetings from another part of the colour spectrum. I had to smile when I read your post today. I had just finished making beetroot chutney and took my well earned cup of coffee through to sit at my computer and catch up on your posts.
I love red and all of its close neighbourrs. Happiness for me is jars of this stuff all in a row on the shelf complete with their sticky labels: Maggie's Beet Chutney '09.
Posted by: Barbara MacLeod | 02 August 2009 at 10:49 PM