After deciding on a direction for my re-brand, I drew out my design on paper, and then transferred it to calico ready for stitching. I have a colour palette in my head combining a range of greens with navy and a dusky pink, so hopefully when this all comes together the combination will work.
I want to have all of the elements separately for combining in different ways, so I will stitch the garlands first and scan in the design, and then add the text to the centre. I wasn't happy with the placement of the text when I added it to the paper, so when I transfer it to the calico I will be able to move it around to find the perfect place.
I have also transferred a separate larger text piece so I can scan this in separately as well.
I have had a couple of designs ready for transferring for a little while so I traced these through today as well and picked my threads ready for stitching.
I was wondering how I was going to remember which colour I wanted where, and also why you would have card embroidery bobbins, and then the penny dropped...!
I labelled the paper designs with the numbers for the threads and then numbered the card bobbins with the numbers so that when I came back to the design I knew which colour to use where!
The design above has a particularly subtle palette and you can't be 100% of colour in a photograph, so I'm glad I have a diagram to help me.
I shall call it stitch by numbers! Someone must have though of that already...
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