Hi Everyone: I have just started a cross stitch pattern and one of the stitches on the chart is "combined colors", I have never done this before. Can anyone explain to me what this means?
Hi Donna,
I'm sure they are referring to using one strand each of two or three different colors. It helps in the shading between colors. Just pull one strand as you would pull two and match it up with it's mate color and stitch like normal.
Alyson
It's just like Alyson says, the chart should tell you which colours to use and how many strands of each. Sometimes it will call them blended colours or even tweeding! The effect is really good for subtle colour changes.
Good luck!
A stitch in time is my idea of a perfect day!
Connie
Thanks everyone for your help, that is what it is. I am working on a picture called "Cabin Fever". It looks like it will take me forever but I have the rest of my life and if not someone will do it for me.
Blending colours in one needle is really effective, and stitching with them is the same as with any other double strand in the needle.
I would only suggest you perhaps pay slightly more attention to the way they lie than you might otherwise. I consciously 'railroad' my blended stitches and the result is good (it's tedious, but it does work!).
I don't think so. If the blending choices have been well made, they disappear and from a distance (not like us, with our magnifying lenses!) the effect is wonderful and blurry.
Very often the blending gradually changes the color scheme, on my Samurai project his robes went from red through to purple as I worked down, without any harsh lines, there is a very bad photo of him in my gallery, but you get the idea
Jilly
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