Kreinik's website has just posted a new article in PDF form--24 Ways to Embellish a Needlepoint Canvas, by Suzanne Howren and Beth Robertson.
http://www.kreinik.com/
It promotes Kreinik's threads, of course, but that doesn't mean there aren't some great ideas there.
Thanks!
UPDATE: If you are having trouble finding the article, it's at the bottom right of the link. The title of the home page link is 24 Ways to Use Braid. Sorry for the confusion. I failed to notice that the link had a slightly different title than the article.
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Friday, May 9, 2008
Autumn Leaves Colors and Threads
Labels:
Autumn Leaves,
Lani,
needlepoint,
threads
The Lani Autumn Leaves canvas I’m going to start stitching shortly contains nine colors and threads (above). Here’s the list of colors with what I bought to use for these colors.
bright red (Vineyard Silks Classics #C-006 Tomato)
medium and dark red-orange (Panache PN31 and PN30)
peach (Panache PN07)
medium and light lavender (Impressions 2055 and 2056)
dark brown (Mandarin Floss M886)
golden tan (Mandarin Floss M842)
ivory (Impressions 1146 or possibly Silk Lame Braid SL03)
I am considering adding a tenth color as a border--the very pretty peach and cream Impressions 172 Almond. There is also a possibility of an eleventh color-black. The red leaves’ veins and outline seems to be darker than the tan leaves’ dark brown. I haven’t decided whether I’ll play up this difference by using black silk Splender on the red or not.
Ten colors aren’t really that many (some Ehrman Tapestry and Elizabeth Bradley kits have 27 colors) but switching between even ten colors as you tent stitch can be daunting. Stay tuned and I’ll give you my best tips for starting and stopping so many colors. I plan to talk about each thread brand I use as I use it so folks who haven’t seen it can learn more about that thread and its properties. That’s why I included Panache, Vineyard Silks, Mandarin Floss and Silk Lame Braid. All are new threads in the last year or two, except for Mandarin Floss which I think has been out for three years.
By the way, some of the photos of the Autumn Leaves canvas make the brown leaves look green, but they are not. You can’t trust either cameras or computer monitors to get colors right.
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