Distant Stitch Chapter 1

Distant stitch     Chapter 1

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Primary Colours

RED  …    My favourite colour.   I often use the colour red in my embroideries,  however, the pure hue is often very difficult to use.      I enjoy looking at red tulips, red geraniums, and fall red Japanese maple leaves.  These items always capture attention in any scene whether it is an embroidery or not!!

BLUE    …. There are a few days when the pure hue of blue is in the sky and the sea, lake, and/or river.     However, I would rather tone down the colour to make the picture look more realistic.   Photographers prefer a dull day to capture a good photograph.

YELLOW ….    Yellow is a sprightly colour.  I will use a small bit of yellow in most of my embroideries to give that bit of sparkle.  Yellow is an uplifting colour and reminds of the sun. 

Whenever using a primary colour, it can totally take over the scene to be embroidered, photographed, etc.    Each of these primary colours has to be a part of the statement of the piece or used with caution.

Pictures on PAGE 11 of chapter 1       The six pictures have items that show colours except maybe for the tulip where there is a touch of grey in the red.    However, this picture shows some pure colour in the green background. All the colours have originated from the pure form of the three primary colours….red, yellow and blue.   The only other thing that I could think of about the similarities between the six pictures was that all of the objects in the pictures had some rounded form….. but that is not connected to colour!!!

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Blue

There are several blue greens scattered throughout the grouping of colours with more in the second half or lighter half of the range.

This the beginning of the picture section.

                                                                                                                                                                             

All my pictures have come from a collection I have been keeping and adding to for some years. 

The last page of some of my special pictures!



The begining of my transfer paint journey.

This is the last page for Chapter 1.  I reallly like how the transfer paits reacted with the linen and the cotton table cloth.  I really enjoy embroidering on painted fabrics and now this a new way for me to colour my fabrics. 

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DISTANT STITCH

Machine embroidery   Level 2

MODULE ONE        RAZZALE DAZZLE

The colours that I can see from my window in front of my table!

Douglas Fir forest

Branches …greens …. Dark green in the shadows to mid green on the tips of the branches          

Tree trunks …. Black and very dark brown …  with patches of tones of yellow brown and green from the tall grasses in the meadow beyond the trees seen between the dark tree trunks.Lawn    grass green with patches of dried yellow brown

Smoke tree

Dark magenta (blue/red) leaves with a few that are turning to fall yellow (a shade of yellow)

                Branches … shades of orange/yellow

                Flower stems …. Shades of yellow

Mountain Ash tree

                Trunk …. light to medium brown possible on the orange yellow scale of tones

                Leaves … orange yellow with a hint of grey

                Branches … medium dark brown to medium brown

Catoni Aster

                Branches … dark brown to medium dark brown

                Leaves … green to green yellow with a touch of orange

                Berries … a shade of red orange

Sky         pale pale light grey

There are so many variations of colours in the landscape outside my window.  I would need to go out with my colour tools to be exactly sure of the shade/tint/ and tones of shades/tints of the colours I have chosen!!!    I am sure I would also be quite surprised at what the actual colour would be!!

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Green

Near the center of the stream of colours, I have indicated what I feel is a true green. I found this exercise a bit difficult because there is such a variation of greens and where they should  be placed.  In the bottom half of the grouping, I have yellow greens mixed in with some blue greens.  The top half just has one definite yellow green. I also included a "green" picture in the centre of the stream of pictures depicting light to mid to dark green. 

 

 

 

Yellow

 

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The yellows I picked are either yellow or they have a bit of green in them.  There are a couple of them at the top that show a bit of orange as well as my candle

picture!!!!

Orange

Here I see that I have gone from the red orange to yellow orange.  My extra picture shows the colour range from red orange to orange to yellow orange to yellow

 

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Red



I started the colour red with a deep red violet and then moved into the red with a hint of orange just after the red flower. The maple leaf is orange red .... quite out of character of most of the reds in this colour range!!!   But I liked it!!!

 

 

 

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Violet



Dard red violets start out this journey of the violet colour and stay with the scheme until the piece marked violet.  However, I note that there is at least one piece that is more blue violet than the rest in the middle of this top group.  Then we have a mixture of blue violets and and red violets mixed in with the tone violets. My picture of the Alliums are a tint of

red violdt.  So pretty!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Beginning of my Journey into Distant Stitch - Level 2 - Machine Embroidery

Distant Stitch

Level 2 Certificate

Module one 'Razzle Dazzle

Chapter 1 -  Organizing the Colours

Green

Near the center of the stream of colours, I have indicated what I feel is a true green. I found this exercise a bit difficult because there is such a variation of greens and where they should  be placed.  In the bottom half of the grouping, I have yellow greens mixed in with some blue greens.  The top half just has one definite yellow green. I also included a "green" picture in the centre of the stream of pictures depicting light to mid to dark green. 

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