Just call me Ruby. Patterns. Gatherings. Winter 2006 - editor. For many years, possibly too many, I have read and read about color theory, and the use of color, and how painters and dyers and potters and weavers and designers and landscapers and everyone in the universe chose colors.
Until recently, none of the information did me any good; how other people did things was all well and good, BUT WHAT WAS I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THE INFORMATION? Hue, intensity, shade, tint, tone, value, saturation, chromaticity?? All I want to do is knit a two-color sweater that doesn't look like a train wreck, not paint the Mona Lisa. So I read, and muttered foul things under my breath, and experimented, and finally, after a chance comment in one of Sally Melville's books, an article on how the brain sees color, and (hopefully) my own intellect finally kicking in, I figured out a way to use color theory that was easy and worked.