Colour Confidence in Embroidery - Out of Stock

Brand New Book!

Based on her own experience with long and short stitch shading, gained through trial and error over the years, the author provides a greater awareness of how colour affects our embroidery, and what brings it to life. Each aspect is clearly illustrated by example and includes tools for selecting colours, choosing shades that enhance our embroidery, why some shades blend better than others, and the importance of contrast with light and shadow. There are projects to represent each colour group including stunning roses, camellias, fruit and the much sought after bee-eater birds, but the highlights of the book for any stitcher have to be the chapters on colour combinations and complementary colours. These include more than 200 stitched examples in DMC thread keys, plus schemes to help choose colours for your own projects.

The book contains:

• Materials and preparation
• Shading techniques
• Tools for selecting colours
• Howe colour affects embroidery
• What brings our embroidery to life
• Colour combinations
• Colour schemes

Projects included

• French Rose
• Camellia Japonica
• Iris 'Spartan'
• Crocus Sativus
• Moroccan Plum
• Lilac-Breasted Roller
• Little Green Bee-Eater
• Little Bee-Eater Friends
• Austrian Rose
• 'Elton' Cherry
• Camellia 'Alba Plena'
• Sacred Kingfisher