Choosing Colors with Confidence

This three part essay on choosing colors is by Ann-Marie Anderson-Mayes of Beautiful Stitches in Australia.   It's worthy of careful study.  Don't miss the resource links at the very end.
http://beautifulstitches.com.au/choosing-colours-with-confidence-part-1/

http://beautifulstitches.com.au/choosing-colours-with-confidence-part-2/

http://beautifulstitches.com.au/choosing-colours-with-confidence-part-3/

Hope you enjoy these words of wisdom from Australia!

By the way, Terry Dryden is picking colors for a new project.  I thought you'd like to see how she does it.
http://www.terrydryden.com/-blog/2015/5/31/developing-a-colorway.html

Terry's a master of color.  To see some of her designs, click on anything in Current Portfolio while on Terry's website.

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Blog Housekeeping

Just want to point out a few things I've done with Blog while your back was turned Thanksgiving.  If you like the Canvas of the Day, click on the photo and you'll magically be transported to the site where I found it.  I can't remember if I ever told you guys this trick!   I try to find sale items but this isn't always possible as I just pick a canvas that catches my eye for whatever reason.

Today's Canvas of the Day perfectly captures my reaction to the fact that it is December 1, for example.  LOL

The canvas above is one I saw underway at Needlewoman East on Sunday at the sale.  The person stitching it filled in the black and white border's empty spaces with green, then surrounded the whole border with 4-5 rows of purple tent stitches, which set off the whole design beautifully.  It was a very clever, yet simple touch, that brought out the greens and oranges of the design.  This canvas I found on sale at The Needlepointer.  It is by Lee and is called "Holding a Yellow Cat" and is from the Chinese women with Cats series that Lee did a couple years back.  (There are more canvases in the series on this and the preceding page on sale, by the way.)  The Needlepointer has several pages of discounted painted canvases, but there is just one of each, so move quickly if you fall in love.
http://np.theneedlepointer.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=84&sort=20a&number_of_uploads=0&page=8

I added a link to the Needlepoint Groups and Thread Information area just below the koi pond.  You can now go straight to either the Kreinik metallics listing or to the huge list (with color images) of threads that Needle in a Haystack sells.  I am not affiliated with either but these are great resources for those of us who have to mail order most of our threads.

Guess that's it.   I'm stitch stitching on O'jishi but it is slow going with all the holiday chores.  And I still haven't started any Christmas cards....

EEEEEEKKKKKKK!


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