Mandy lent me Anna Zilborg’s informative and moving book Knitting For Anarchists. I’ve been reading it in bits and pieces during my morning commute (and yes, getting strange looks from other people who read the title – time to knit a book cozy). I really love her advice on becoming attune to choosing colour:
Open your eyes. I know that sounds unnecessary, simple-minded, even offensive, but it is the best advice I was ever given. I was not aware that I didn’t look at color, that I only saw colour attached to something else, like trees or flowers or sky[....] If you pick an iris and think about wearing it, you’ll find you have a wild color combination in front of you.
