A Custom "Starry Nights"

Lorraine at Colour Complements has come up with a custom autumn color set for Laura Perin's "Starry Nights" chart. It's a stunner, particularly if you love harvest colors of greens, golds, reds, oranges and touches of blue and pink.
http://colourcomplements.com/2015/09/starry-nights.html

The threads are Lorraine's own so you'll have to get the chart from Laura, but that's easy to do.  Just head to her website.
http://www.laurajperindesigns.net/american-quilt-collection.html

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200 Different Thread Colors

Sometimes when I am working on a stitch guide I look at the 30-40 different items I've used and think I have gone a bit overboard. Turns out I am a serious beginner when it comes to using a lot of different threads! Mary Corbet is about to start a project that uses 200 different flosses.  Yep, I'm a rank amateur!
http://www.needlenthread.com/2015/09/how-to-organize-thread-for-large-needlework-projects.html

The way she plans to organize her threads looks very logical, although expensive.  But if you do a lot of this kind of thing, you'll definitely want to look into Annie's Keepers.
http://www.annieskeepers.com

By the way, Traditional Stitches is a great online shop if you are Canadian and Nordic Needle is amazing if you are in the United States.
http://www.traditionalstitches.com

http://www.nordicneedle.com

Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com
© Copyright September 21, 2015 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.