A rainbow can be defined as:
- An arch of colors formed in the sky in certain circumstances, caused by the refraction and dispersion of the sun’s light by rain or…
- Any display of the colors of the spectrum produced by dispersion of light.
According to Wikipedia:
In a “primary rainbow”, the arc shows red on the outer part and violet on the inner side. This rainbow is caused by light being refracted while entering a droplet of water, then reflected inside on the back of the droplet and refracted again when leaving it.
In a double rainbow, a second arc is seen outside the primary arc, and has the order of its colours reversed, red facing toward the other one, in both rainbows. This second rainbow is caused by light reflecting twice inside water droplets.
I was driving to La Jolla yesterday on a beautiful sun shiny morn and went through a momentary torrential downpour. It was gone as quickly as that and look at the rainbow that appeared! I can see a second rainbow starting to form to the left, very faint but it is there. Can you see it?
Is it true that there is a pot of gold to be found at the end of my rainbow?
Well maybe not gold in the sense that we are thinking of, but I did strike it rich with these beautiful threads! I just happened to be meeting Tony Minieri along with another dear friend for breakfast…so who else is better at picking out these thread combinations? In a matter of about 27 seconds, well maybe a little longer than that Tony had selected these 3 gorgeous colorways for a very special charted design that will be in a future issue of Needlepoint Now.
I think that I am pretty good with color, but when it comes to selecting threads like this I am totally lost. One overdye, a bead, a Kreinik, a stranded silk and a Pepper Pot Silk or a pearl cotton would work. There are just too many choices and I keep going in several different directions. I continue to second guess myself and will keep asking is this right? or should I do this? or that? Well you get the idea!
Well the fun was over and back home to get to work. I spent a few more hours with my Mac and am 99% finished with my charting. I promised that I would have everything ready for the magazine by Monday morning and I never ever want to be the one to hold up the presses! A little nap, a little adult beverage and a little stitching finished off my evening.
My countdown to Thanksgiving continues as I think about what I am most grateful for.
The magazine and my association with Elizabeth and the entire crew of Needlepoint Now. I feel very lucky and extremely fortunate to be one of the lucky ones that gets to work with the magazine. The new friendships that have grown are the best part.
The magazine work also brought around the creation of this blog. I thank each and every one of your every day for reading my blog. The comments that I get to read are frosting on the cake! Meeting you in person and hearing those words “I know you…I read your blog!” is absolutely priceless. AlleyCat and Sylvester thank you too.
and until next time…keep on stitching
