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
@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!
@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.
Petra van Cronenburg
Climate Jenny 2.1