Friday, December 4, 2009

Embroidery thread - all the colours of the rainbow and more

My friend, Tas, is getting a new sewing/embroidery machine for Christmas.  I told her that I'd make a list of my threads for her.  I thought if I was doing that for her, I might as well share with everyone.



embthreads

When I first bought my embroidery module, I was overwhelmed with the choice of thread colours.  I think it can be hard to figure out what you will use if you haven't already been doing it.  My friend, Lis, suggested for each colour to have a light, dark and medium.  I used this principle plus a few other ideas when originally selecting my colours.  Some other things to think about about are if you are embroidering people, you need skin tones and hair colours.  If you are doing animals (deer and hedgies!), you need browns.  This would be why I seem to have a large number of browns, and we all know by now that I am not a big brown girl.

The threads listed below are Isacord.  I decided to buy Isacord because I know it's considered a good thread, and I had a good source from where to buy them. The descriptions are mine, and are not the actual thread colour name. 


Colour number
my description
Most used
0015
white
*
0020
black
*
0108
silvery grey

0124
light grey

0132
medium grey – pewter
*
0142
light grey

0600
yellow
*
0640
Flax – good for blonde hair
*
0651
light tan

0660
vanilla
*
0700
golden yellow
*
1123
light brown

1134
medium reddish brown
*
1154
medium brown

1220
light orange

1300
orange
*
1342
brown

1346
medium/dark brown

1355
medium brown

1362
light peach

1366
dark brown

1800
red
*
1902
red

2101
Red – blue red

2155
light pink
*
2171
pale pink

2220
bright pink

2300
dark pink
*
2363
light pink

2508
fuschia pink
*
2532
medium pink
*
2620
medium pink

2640
lilac/orchid

2900
dark purple

2910
medium purple
*
3130
light purple

3554
navy

3611
royal blue

3830
light blue

3900
medium blue

4103
Turquoise – deep

4220
Turquoise – medium
*
4240
light turquoise
*
4531
deep turquoise

4703
gray

5411
green

5415
dark green

5610
light green
*
5613
medium bright green

5912
lime green
*
5934
olive green


5 comments:

Tas said...

You, my dear, are an absolute legend! Thank you so much for taking the time to help me out.

Liz said...

That is a good plan, to have a light, medium and dark of each colour. I know I don't have enough blues or purples. Thanks for sharing Sara :)

zofia said...

Oh, they are just so lovely to look at Sara!

Amber said...

Oh Sara, you are always so generous with your time! I hope to be able to use this as a resource one day too!!

Steffi said...

Great colours,Sara!Thank you for sharing!