Fembat
Fembat
Next!
Time to pick up the knitting needles again. I've decided to knit Lucky from Pipsqueaks.It calls for Rowan All Season's cotton and I just happen to have some of that in my yarn stash. So in the spirit of destashing in 2007 I'm going to use it.
The yarn is a pale blue colour but Daughter1 doesn't mind. Actually, it's only recently that the colours pink have been used for a girl and blue for a boy. Originally it was the other way round; pink was considered a masculine colour as it's a derivitive of red which is associated with power and strength. Girls wore blue as this is considered a feminine colour associated with water and being calm. I don't know why the colours were switched. I think I'll have to investigate that one.
Anyway, it's a very easy pattern; the knitting stitch used is moss stitch which I don't usually like as it can be tedious. However the yarn is an aran weight so shouldn't take me too long to knit.
ADDENDUM
I said I'd be researching the blue/pink colour preference for gender. Here's some info I've found on the net:
According to the website "Gender Specific Colors," it would seem that assigning color to gender is mostly a 20th century trait. It would also seem that at one time, the color associations were reversed when color first came into use as a gender identifier.
And some in depth work on the meaning of colour for gender can be found on Color Matters
Not necessarily about gender but the effect of colour is found on this site:
Comments
This is very interesting info on the colors! I would have never known that.
Lovely pattern choice...in any color. Good use of stash.
I had heard something different about the colors (although I can't remember where I read it). Something about blue being chosen as a color to dress baby boys in because it was a color of protection and pink was chosen for girls because it complemented blue.
Strange.
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that's really interesting about the colours, i'l have to check that out myself.
good luck with the cardi, i hate knitting moss st!!