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Pantone’s Color of the Year 2019: Living Coral

Love it or hate it, Pantone has just announced their 2019 color of the year: 16-1546 Living Coral. Personally, I love it! My own closet is full of black and gray. Coral is that perfect pop of color against a background of neutrals.

We happen to have varying shades of coral in many of our yarn lines. A lot of them are spot on to Pantone’s specific coral pick. Here’s a sampling:

Corrrllll. Brief aside: Tori Gurbisz (who used to be a designer here) and I used to have this inside joke that caused us to roll on the floor laughing anytime we heard the word “coral”. Andrew Lincoln, the actor who plays Rick on The Walking Dead is British (but plays an American), and his son’s name on the show is Carl. In earlier seasons before Lincoln mastered the southern American accent, anytime he’d say his son’s name it sounded like Coral, rather than Carl. We found this hilarious.

Anyway. Coral. It’s so fun and vibrant. It makes me happy because I have a few designs coming down the pike for spring that incorporate this color, and I can’t wait to share them with you. But in the meantime, let’s look at some other coral-y goodness.

Cotton Supreme DK and Cotton Supreme DK Seaspray
Classic Shades in 743 Oasis. A nice example of how coral can look so pretty with other orangey shades and blue.
Rachel Brockman’s Sailor’s Delight Socks in Mini Saki
Astray knit in Dona
Woven Rectangles in Uptown Super Bulky
Reversible Cable Blanket in Major
Coffee Beans and Sugarcubes hats in Uptown Super Bulky

And of course, you can crochet or knit anything you want in coral or any other color! If you’re thinking you’d like to start with a pop of coral rather than using it all-over in a project, how about the Citron Scarf in Cottonwood? You could crochet the body of the scarf in a neutral, and add color 41107 Monica (coral) as the fringe?

41101 Kara as the main color
41107 Monica as the fringe

Happy making!