Early Spring… It always brings with it lots of pops of color, and a lot of YELLOW! Here take a look at some inspiration I got while taking a trip to my local botanic garden. Does it speak to you? For each of these thread scheme,...

14 April, 2021 /

The MONOCHROMATIC color harmony just takes various shades and tints of the main color - making it a very subtle and calming color palette.  It takes a single color, and just expands it as needed.  It's the most simple of all the color harmonies, because...

12 April, 2021 /

This thread scheme takes me to my "happy place" - my local garden shop. The colorful pottery pictured here made me want to play with color. Slightly based off the RGB color scheme, but different "flavors" of color. For each of these thread scheme, or palettes,...

07 April, 2021 /

Welcome to Stitchin'spiration's "Friday Fill"! What's a "Friday Fill"? Well, bi-weekly I’m going to introduce you to all kinds of blackwork fills, and try to break them down showing you how truly easy it is to stitch blackwork. Most importantly, I want to show you how...

02 April, 2021 /

Here's where we get interesting! Have a picture that you love the colors in it?  Love something about how the colors work? Well, just start with those colors, and see where it takes you! This photo was taken early one morning watching the sun rise. It...

31 March, 2021 /

As a needleworker and a crafter, I'm certain that you've seen or played with variegated threads or yarn. These multi-colored threads make it easy to introduce a lot of color into your needlework project, without having the hassle of constantly changing threads. But have you...

26 March, 2021 /

One more view of the Red-Yellow-Blue color wheel, but in a different way. Kreinik has a line of silk threads that I just LOVE, and I thought I'd take a stab at a color wheel in them. Their Milkpaint series captures the colors from the 19th...

24 March, 2021 /
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