What a great idea! None of the colors above really resonate with me-- I don't use any reds and while I like green, I tend more to the lighter, paler versions or a brighter, yellower green myself.

I think we all have strong opinions about color-- and a color I love is likely to turn off a number of other people. Since I am guessing these will be released for winter/holiday .. maybe options for both traditional holiday colors and a more frosty wintery colorway with white, light blues, gray? If the kits take off, she could add a broader range of colors.

Funky, what colors specifically resonate with you? We are brainstorming, in the beginning stages.

Last year she did a macrame kit was was very successful.

It will be interesting to see what our group comes here comes up with.

Who is her target market? I would think she would want to select colors that would resonate with them not a bunch of women who would probably not be her customers.

I would leave the 3rd color as a light neutral. Then I would use either a darker neutral or 1st or 2nd color if you wanted an earth tone kit. For myself I would like a pale green,aqua or pale blue for a cool toned kit. Then maybe a kit with a darker cool color and a kit with a darker warm color (red, orange or yellow shade). I'm using those choices assuming she is doing assorted kit colors. I love neutrals too but for something knitted, I would use an accent color. My accent colors are always in the blues and greens. Just my 2 cents worth!

Eld.. I will stop back later today or tomorrow with specific pantone colors. Sorry, I am a little tied up to search them out this morning.

My suggestion of two holiday/winter colorways is assuming that she's building now in prep for holiday sales-- let me know if that's not true. Otherwise, my thought was similar to Tina's-- a warm colorway and a cool colorway. Like Tina, i gravitate to cool colors personally-- as does one of my sisters/nieces.. the other sister and the rest of my nieces lean to warm colors or jewel tones.

Just sharing thoughts off the top of my head-- but i will scan pantone colors for more specific recommendations when i have a little more time.

Sorry-- one more question. What will these kits produce? I think I'd choose different colors for hats/scarves than for a throw.

I like the top 3 together and I like the bottom 3 together. I think 3 colors is best, just like when we do a room ...60%, 30% and 10% as a guide. I think I have a color selector tool still...if I can find it, I'll post the info about it. It was a thing where you slid the holes up and down and it helped combine the colors with the right accent to make an interesting combo.

But I agree that it matters a lot what the kit will make...what I'd wear in a hat is very different from what I'd put in an afghan.

I've passed the questions on to my daughter.

Exactly what RN said. We are probably not her target demo and she should not use us! For example, I still hate a lot of the 70s colors but my kids do not. I find it so true what they say ... you never like the decor you grew up with. I'd extend that to color palettes.

Ah well. I thought it would be fun to share favorite colors.

People here have good taste so……

I don't know-- it does help to understand the target market and depending on where she is selling, i don't know that people like us are not the target. My bff picked up knitting in the last few years-- and didn't our own SueB do the same?

Either way-- for colors popular with a young age group, all you need to do is look at west elm or anthro. I don't think they differ all that much from what you or I like.. colorwise (style is potentially a different story). I do think there is a difference in purpose for the item to be produced (as i said above) I wear somewhat different colors than I use in my home.

I think everyone is just reading too much into this. It’s a craft kit for beginners. The trick is to have your product rise to the surface as there are hundreds of similar choices.

There is an exact strategy involved. DD took various seminars to learn the in and outs.

Honestly, I don’t thing age enters into this.

She has a few products that have done quite well, because of her marketing.

Again I thought it would be fun to relay favorite colors.

If you Google knitting kits for beginners, you do not see an age requirement.

I like jewel tones, or, if I'm trying to be mature, less-saturated jewel tones. The first color you posted repels me--the others are nice.

I think the color preferences depends on what the craft is though. In general, for Christmas, the Pristine and Deep Lake are quite nice. The red seems a tad brownish for my taste. A rich plum might be a good addition--purple used to be a Christmas color after all and the right purple with the right green will certainly stand out among Xmas stuff.

Fori, yes I agree. Im not a red person but I like plum.

I still want to know what product this will yield. A pot holder could be any color....a scarf, I'd be more particular...

This just in. The product will be a scarf.

Excellent! If she's not familiar with Design Seeds, she might have fun looking there for inspiration...

Love this mix of greens and lavender..

If the kits aren't "aged" then that may be an opportunity for her...seems to me that primary colors are naturals for children, lavenders and purples for girls, subtle tonal shades for adults....

How lovely are these browns with the wedgewood blue...

This one has some great color combos..

I'm still waiting for jewel tones to come back.

Annie, I'll pass that to her.

They will get a choose one color out of four choices.

I just saw this, but I'm not clear if the scarf will be single color or multi-color. Also, how many options does she plan to offer? Her target audience or the demographics and previous choices of her customers probably provide more reliable cues than our favorite colors.

Scarves, especially scarves someone is going to make an investment of time in making, need to work with current clothing color trends as well as be classic enough to work well in other years or so fun and different that a person won't care -- colors like aqua, fuschia or purple are like that for some people.

I googled fall 2022 fashion colors because what will be in the stores has already been ordered. I found things like this on Etsy and this article from Women's Wear Daily. She might want to take a look at those as well as consider classic fall/winter colors.

As for the 5 you displayed, the only one I might want to make something in would be the last one - primarily because my son's GF's favorite color is teal. And I always like jewel tones too.

Lascatx, I mentioned up thread that the kits attract people of all ages. If you google knitting kits, hundreds pop up. They don't put age recommendations.

I also mentioned that to they choose one color.

I made my GF a granny square afghan when she got married...only it was hexagons. I had made a whole row of holidays....red white and green for xmas, red white and blue for 4th of July, oranges and browns for thanksgiving, pastels for Easter, pinks for valentine's day, etc. I also made some inspired by weather such as cloudy, sunny, blue sky and green grass, snowy with grays and whites. It was a lot of fun.

Another source of inspiration could be birds....cardinals, blue jays, gold finches, orioles, robin's egg, scarlet tanager, etc. Or butterflies too. Would love one like a luna moth.

In fact now that I think of it, that could be another marketing opportunity for her as well...to name the kits based on what inspired them. It could be a big seller that way too. They do say that houses with names go for more than those without.

I know I made one project linus blanket in the dark green, white, and yellow inspired by daffodils... I posted it with a pic of daffodils... and it got many more likes that way than my other ones.

I didnt want to get bogged down in the responses so I haven’t read any. Here’s my opinion:

I like the first three colors, together or separately or in any combination.

I strongly dislike the red and green. Red and green are two of my favorite colors, but those particular two are, singly and in combination, horrible. Red and green for Christmas is a no brainer good idea, unless these are the colors she has in mind. They are REALLY terrible!

Kswl, I agree about red and green.