Daily Archives: June 8, 2019

Happiness is Yellow–Choosing Embroidery Colors

Hello! ❤

In my last post I showed you my newly knitted and blocked yellow sweater dress for the Little Darling dolls.  Usually, I have a print fabric that guides my embroidery thread colors.  This dress, having no print fabric to go along with the ensemble, is open to whatever embroidery colors I choose.

I looked through past knitwear made with this same yellow thread (Aunt Lydia’s Bamboo Crochet Thread) and found some palettes that looked inspiring to me.  I was surprised to see the dresses are all tiny ones.  Hmm…  I guess I had it in my head to ‘save’ this sunshiny yellow bamboo thread because it is now discontinued.  Well, that’s no fun!  I hereby vow to ‘use it up’ and make sweaters or sweater dresses for each of my girls (dolls) who wants one.

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“Little Sunshine”, 2013

Tiny Bit of Sunshine 357 wm

“Tiny Bit of Sunshine”, 2013

a sunny day 609

“A Sunny Day”, 2015

golden sunshine 631

“Golden Sunshine”, 2014

fall sunshine 087 wm

“Fall Sunshine”, 2013

Pretty Autumn 434

“Pretty Autumn”, 2013

sunshine and rosebuds 801

“Sunshine and Rosebuds”, 2016

And here’s one made for Patience–no embroidery, but love the fabric’s color palette, very summery.

sunshine & posies 427

“Sunshine & Posies”, 2015

So, which palette(s) is/are your favorite(s)?  I’d love to know…