I’m the tail end of Gen X and sometimes those stereotypes are spot on. I LOVE 80’s music, I identify with a lot of the memes. And apparently right now I’m starting to go into my neon era?
In the last 2 months I’ve been testing knitting a scrappy knit dress for a designer (pattern to be released later in March). The idea is that you take all kinds of bits and bobs from leftover projects and put them together to create a wearable garment. I like a little order to my chaos, so I’ve picked a neutral color to tie it all together (very dark grey) and I’m proceeding. This dress is gonna be wild, but I am digging the neon color palette it’s revealing!
Here they are in inks:
- Diamine Hope Pink
- Pen BBS #111
- J. Herbin Vert Reseda
- J. Herbin Violette Pensee
- Robert Oster Signature Sublime
- Robert Oster Graphite
Creating from bits is neither GenXish nor new. My dead mother used to crochet granny squares, or whatever they’re called, out of bits of yarn when she was ordered to bed during her pregnancy with me. They became afghans. Several of them. She didn’t kill me then, and somehow refrained from killing me later, which is a tribute to the power of maternal love. I was the sort of child that members of less advanced cultures would throw into the volcano to appease the gods. But I digress. We had clothing made from end-pieces of fabric leftover from the factory. Ugly! When is the end of GenX? I think my child, the Most Precious Object in the Universe, is a Zoomer. The sweater looks cool. Knit on!