Satsumastreet.blogspot.com Website Review

Satsuma Street offers modern, colorful and graphic counted cross-stitch embroidery patterns designed by Jody Rice. Satsuma Street cross stitch patterns are available for purchase on etsy at www.satsumastreet.etsy.com I'm in a pretty serious relationship, and it's with the DMC six strand embroidery floss colors. Actually if this were Facebook, I'd say It's Complicated. The DMC colors are my palette, but unlike a painter if I can't find the color I have in my mind, I can't mix a new one. I'm limited by the 454 colors they produce. So sometimes it's frustrating when the color in my head doesn't exist in thread form. But then there are the colors I find I go back to again and again and again. My all-star team. I thought I'd start a little series of posts First up is one of my all-time best hitters, DMC 718. The official name of this color is apparently Plum. I've never seen a plum that comes close to the intensity of this color, but it's almost exactly the same color as the bougainvillea that blooms all over Los Angeles: DMC 718 also reminds me of the outside leaves of a red cabbage.. or this dahlia variety which is charmingly named Thomas Edison! So how and when do I use DMC 718 in my designs? I love it because it's one of those colors which our perception of changes depending on the colors around it, aka simultaneous contrast (I'm telling you, I'm a color geek!). So 718 can look like a pink-ish red in some circu*stances, or more purple-ish in others. That really helps when you're limited on the number of colors you can use in a design, 718 is a clear, intense magenta that vibrates very strongly against the complement of purple, which is a yellow-orange. That's how I've design (718 is the right side of the popsicle shaped tree, the branches of the big round tree, and you can see a bit of it in the I especially love 718 next to a nice turquoise or blue, as seen here on the far right: 718 is basically a pure hue, meaning it doesn't have any white or grey added to create a tint or shade. So I also love how this color looks