Petra van Cronenburg

I had promised you more #grannies from our Festival of #Wool & #Yarn. The square-bags were new, but I suspect the horrible shades of orange and brown are original 1970s. 🤭
We had a big hype with grannies in the 1960/70s, first with colourful fancy #hippie #fashion, then in the typical colours of rubbish bins (in the early 1970s, everything had that dirty orange: bins, coffee-machines, skirts, wall-papers). @fiberarts

#fibreArt #fiberArts #colours #crochet #häkeln

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Show threadAnnelies Kamran, Ph.D.12h ago
@NatureMC @fiberarts the 1970s: burnt orange, avocado, and harvest gold 😆
Show threadPetra van Cronenburg12h ago

@akamran Yeah, you have these fancy names! 🤣 I called them all "dirty *colourname*". And hated especially one skirt in a mixture of very big patterns in these colours. When standing in front of our wall paper (same patterns!), I suddenly vanished with half of my body. 😱 🥶 🤣

@fiberarts

Show threadAnnelies Kamran, Ph.D.12h ago
@NatureMC I'd love to see a picture of that 🤣
Show threadPetra van Cronenburg12h ago
@akamran It was some horror like this:
Show threadAnnelies Kamran, Ph.D.12h ago
@NatureMC that is making me dizzy! I can't imagine living with that wallpaper 🥴
Show threadPetra van Cronenburg12h ago
@akamran My uncle had something similar as a living room. 😎
Nowadays, I ask myself if it was a cheap ersatz for the meanwhile illegal psychedelic drugs.
Show threadFrisco LaLa9h ago
@NatureMC @akamran a friend had a stripe detail running along the wall in their bedroom that was exactly these colors. Peak 70’s 🟧🟨🟫
Show threadKerr Avonsen (she/her)5h ago
@NatureMC @akamran oh my gosh, peak 70's!
Show threadJenni12h ago
@NatureMC i love the blue violett one!!
Show threadPetra van Cronenburg12h ago
@jenni Ah, yes, what I first saw as grey (just edited the alt text, thanks).
Show threadClimate Jenny 2.112h ago

@NatureMC @fiberarts Much of my youth was spent in a house with harvest gold shag carpeting. This is why 1970s fashion revivals leave me cold. These are the colors of forced fake cheerfulness.

I do like the sunflower square, however!

Show threadPetra van Cronenburg12h ago

@ClimateJenny I think that here in Europe, we did it because we adopted each trend from the US as a hype but we didn't have the background (like that harvest gold).
We saw these colours and patterns mainly in James Bond films and other series ... there it had something "scifi", seemed to be the fashionable thing ...

The sunflowers are original 2026.

Show threadClimate Jenny 2.111h ago
@NatureMC You are absolutely correctly to label these colors “dirty” because that was vibe.