The opposite day I posted a couple of Mardi Gras cross sew sample that included a few totally different blends of floss.
This truly isn’t one thing I’ve ever executed when cross stitching (I’m nonetheless fairly fundamental in terms of the issues I sew!) but it surely’s a very cool concept and an easyish strategy to get a mix of colours from thread you may already be utilizing within the sample as an alternative of looking for one other colour of thread that coordinates.
I wasn’t precisely positive the way it was executed, and I assumed you all is likely to be questioning, too, so I did slightly investigating and I assumed I might share what I discovered.
It is smart that the way in which you’d do it, as described by this submit from Gathered, is simply to divide nevertheless many strands of floss you want among the many totally different colours.
So should you’re mixing colours in a undertaking the place you might be stitching with two strands of floss, and also you need to mix two colours, you’d take one strand of every colour of floss and maintain them collectively to sew.
For this reason I stated it’s easyish, as a result of pulling out only one strand after which getting it to behave with a strand of a special colour generally is a little difficult. When you’ve received them threaded on the needle and knotted collectively they need to be slightly simpler to deal with.
Mixing threads of various colour can also be a enjoyable method so as to add a contact of metallic to your tasks with out having full metallic stitches. Some folks don’t like working with metallic thread, so combining it with a daily sort of floss could make it slightly simpler to work with.
If you wish to see that in motion or study much more about easy methods to mix thread colours and what it appears to be like like in a undertaking, take a look at this nice video from Peacock & Fig.
Have you ever ever used colour mixing in a undertaking? I’d love to listen to about it!
[Photo: Gathered.]
