I am sure that there are a million and one color possibilities with our thread selections! I consider myself a “silk snob” and always head for those first. I just love the sheen, the feel in your hands, the look on the canvas, the way the threads lay on your canvas and ooh all those color possibilities! Do I want to use Soie d’Alger or Belle Soie or Gloriana or Needlepoint Inc or Planet Earth or Splendor or…just too many more to remember them all!
What you see here is an amazing selection of all the colors of Belle Soie! Isn’t this beautiful? I think that I really have most of the colors selected and ready to start my 4 new canvases for Needle Deeva, which are the Easter House and the 3 new hearts. I just want to be sure, so I looked a little more and what do I find but this color “Foo Foo Flamingo!” I think that will be perfect for the Easter House and another called “Cabbage Patch” that just might work in one of those hearts. Now what I think is perfect now, could look just awful once it is in the canvas.
I could not control myself any more and started pulling some colors for my “Cat’s Night Out.” Now Sharon, should I bead the black cats? or stitch them? and what color number of gold beads would I use? Starting this canvas will be my reward for when I finish Santa riding the Panda, which hopefully will be very soon! and until next time…keep on stitching
Vicky – remember the real copper metal beads that the bead shop on La Jolla Blvd has? They have a great look with Sundance glass beads – kind of a contrast that would look really fetching with that beautiful piece – which would look great in my house…..
Feed Alley – her bowl is empty….poor baby~
What a fabulous canvas, said she, the slave to her Airedales. How big is it, and do you know, yet, how you will finish it? I can hardly wait to see you start this one, and I love the panda Santa. All the best, RobinG in Indiana.
The design size is 5 x 12 and I am going to frame it!
Vicky, you know I would tell you to bead the black cats. Of course. Gold beads…I only use the gold plated beads from Sundance. I even use the plated silver ones rather than the regular ones. I believe they are plated with platinum and rhodium. Why? They will not tarnish and will hold the color. I also think the gold plated beads have a slightly richer gold color. To balance it all out, try to incorporate some beads into the gold border and here and there in the body of the canvas. I am so excited to see what you do with Cats Night Out.If Wendy from Aristea were giving advice, she might suggest you needle-felt the mouse.
Thanks Sharon! I think that the mouse is too small to needle felt though. I do have the gold plated beads from Sundance and I also have 465A and was undecided. I will need to get the silver beads though. I hope to start this in a few weeks!