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Each year I like to celebrate the Christmas season at Colour Complements. I generally choose a theme and offer a variety of samples. Last year my theme was trees. This year it is STARS! Why stars? Well, I chose this quite by accident. I saw some completed stars posted by one of the finishers…
I am excited to share a bold red heart today! Do you like RED? I am particularly fond of red myself. Over the past year I’ve been sharing various hearts hopefully to inspire you to stitch one. While all the hearts have been for the Hearts for Hospice program, this particular heart celebrates the season….
Featuring my Eye for Colour #68 today! Welcome to my Eye for Colour series. My goal with the series is to provide customers with a similar experience to selecting a colour palette and thread choices as you would do in a shop. Let’s get started. Today, I am featuring Colour #68. Colour #68 is my…
What are embroidery thread bits? As you can no doubt imagine having a hand-dyed embroidery thread business means I accumulate lots of small lengths of threads. In the past I used to keep a lot of these for my personal stitching but after eight years I now have enough bits to last me more than…
I am excited to share some tree motifs. They are tiny and all are stitched with Colour #18. Colour 18 is a fabulous blend of various values of medium to dark GREENS. It is by far the most popular colour I sell, so much so I end up dyeing it multiple times every year. A…
Today, my stitch sample is Colour #69. If you subscribe to my blog and receive email notifications of my posts, you may encounter difficulties viewing the video above. If so, please visit the link at the bottom of your email – the link will take you directly to this blog post. Colour #69 is one…
Today I am sharing a rosetta stitched with some seasonal colours. After all, the holidays are fast approaching! Colour #31 is one of my Christmas colours that I introduced several years ago. It is a blend of bright green, reddish pink and pink. I’ve used it in a variety of previous projects. A great seasonal…
Today, my stitch sample is Colour #68. If you subscribe to my blog and receive email notifications of my posts, you may encounter difficulties viewing the video above. If so, please visit the link at the bottom of your email – the link will take you directly to this blog post. Colour #68 is one…
Central Asian Embroideries is a book by the DMC library. Some of you may be familiar with this book but if not here is a little history for you today. The DMC Library was initiated by Thérèse de Dillmont in France over a century ago. Have you heard of Dillmont’s Encyclopedia of Needlework (1886)? She…
My needlepoint now heart is a heart pattern available in the January/February 2019 issue of Needlepoint Now hence the name. If you check under Hearts for Hospice in categories you should see other posts featuring this design. Dominique has stitched this heart using my floche in Colour #1 and Colour #51 in floss and various…
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