HOW DID WE USED TO PICK COLORS? The old fashioned way When I first started by business 20 years ago the embroidery machine didn’t show colors, they didn’t even have screens! The display on commercial embroidery machines looked like a calculator screen. The screen simply showed the file name and the numbered amount of steps or color changes in it. We then used our computers to click through each number and on a piece of paper we made notes on which color to use in each step. This is the way we did it for years and is still the way we do it today. Imagine if you had to purchase new thread every time you wanted to embroider a different design! As a business it would not be a very smart decision and as a hobby way too expensive. What you see on screen is only an idea of the colors that could be used in a design. You should choose your own thread colors from what you have available to you or use what brand you prefer to embroider with. The next paragraph details our method for choosing thread colors. I hope that it helps you, too. The Fabric Method I am sure most of you have a fabric stash at home to rival most fabric shops. We sure do! Why do we buy so much fabric? That’s an easy answer as well. We buy fabric because we love the way it looks. We love the colors! All of those batiks, paisleys, country prints and patterns. Some of them we have an idea of what we are going to use them for and others, well, you know the story. Maybe, eventually we will find the perfect project for them. Well you’re in luck, we have the perfect project for all of your fabric. You can use fabric to choose thread colors for your designs. We simply choose a beautiful piece of fabric and take it over to our thread stash and then match the threads to the colors of the fabric. If you think about it this makes perfect sense. This way if you are going to use that fabric in part of your project then the colors will match perfectly. Fabric is designed by experienced color artists that’s why we love it, so let that experienced color artist help you.
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