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Colors Anonymous - A 12-step program

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Hello, my name is Paula, and I used to hate yellow.

 Step 1 - Admit that yellow is a color, and that it has its place in my palette. 

Step 2 - Call on the power of the sisterhood of the guild to help restore the sanity and the completeness of the color wheel of my life.

 Step 3 - Make the decision draw color from portions of the color wheel previously avoided. 

Step 4 - Make an inventory of my colors, neglected and ignored. 

Step 5 - Admit the exact nature of my feelings about yellows and oranges. 

Step 6 - Take up the fiber and be ready to spin or dye yellow and orange. 

Step 7 - Humbly ask Lois Foerster and Janet Adcock to help in the pursuit of yellow and orange. 

Step 8 - Make a list of all the colors and make plans to incorporate them into something in the next year. 

Step 9 - Dye Yellow in Quantity. 

Step 10 - Continue throughout the new year to work a little yellow or orange into projects. 

Step 11 - Seek to become one with the colors, improve my relationship with all the colors of the color wheel. 

Step 12 - Realize that yellow is a perfect base for the dyeing of green and orange... 

-------------------I now want to find all the different shades of yellow; but I must admit that it is so that I can create the perfect green.

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