My favourite side of starting any embroidery mission is the consideration of colour.
Even when I find yourself not utilizing a wide range of colours, or even when I find yourself utilizing no colour in any respect, contemplating the potential of colours is at all times thrilling to me!
In our subsequent Sew Snippet stitch-along, known as Harvest Hues, colour performed a giant position within the preparation of the mission. The best colour problem was discovering an excellent high quality felt that we may use for ending.
Whereas there are plenty of wool felts and wool mix felts available on the market, pinning down simply the proper colours that can work nicely collectively is more durable than you may suppose!
I’m an enormous fan of 100% wool felt for a lot of tasks, and with Harvest Hues, I spent a number of time and expense ordering 100% wool felt samples, wool felt swatch playing cards, and the like. This effort and cash is an funding, actually, as a result of it provides me a pool of assets to select from after I search for felt sooner or later.
Lastly, although, I needed to admit defeat. I by no means discovered something that I cherished in the proper colour, weight, and end of 100% wool felt.
So I went down the highway of wool felt blends.
Now, wool felt blends are usually not a sub-par cloth, relying on what you’re doing. With the sort of ending, they’re truly fairly good to work with. In reality, with many kinds of needlework crafts – like third-dimensional decoration or stuffed sculpture / toy making or ending – wool blends are very nice to work with. They usually normally can be found in a a lot wider and extra vivid number of colours.
Whereas purple, inexperienced, and orange are usually not tough colours to nail down, I had such a tough time discovering a yellow-orange that basically proclaimed Autumn to me… till I discovered the wool mix pictured within the photograph above.
What’s tough to inform within the photograph (however what you’ll see in individual when you occur to put money into the package for Harvest Hues) is that this specific yellow-orange, is that the felt is a mottled felt – a deep yellow combined with a contact of orange. Consider that vibrant yellow-orange of a squash blossom, and also you’ll get the thought!
When the samples arrived for this line of felt, I used to be so happy with this colour particularly. As quickly because it arrived within the mail and I opened it up, I grabbed some scissors, needles, threads, beads, and began check stitching with it.
And lo, how I rejoiced! After about two months of color-seeking amongst all grades and kinds of felt, I discovered what I used to be in search of.
I adore it when that occurs!
Harvest Hues is such a enjoyable mission!! It’s a stress-free, high-satisfaction form of mission – which is at all times the finest sort of mission, don’t you suppose?
I hope you’re enthusiastic about it, and I hope you’re in a position to be part of us as we work via the stitch-along collectively!
Extra coming quickly… keep tuned!
What’s a Sew Snippet Sew Alongside?
Should you’re desperate to know what a Sew Snippet stitch-along is, you’ll discover all of the earlier Sew Snippets that we’ve labored via collectively on Needle ‘n Thread listed right here beneath Suggestions and Methods, within the first part “Hand Embroidery Classes & Step-by-Step Tasks.”
We’ve labored via 9 Sew Snippets collectively to date, from 2022-2024. The teachings are nonetheless accessible right here on the web site without cost, and also you’ll nonetheless discover a few of the kits for the stitch-alongs accessible right here in my store. These little tasks are a good way to familiarize your self with many points of hand embroidery and ending, and can enable you to hone your embroidery and ending expertise.
