Anyone else?

It seems as though

 I'm always struggling

 with locating the right shade

 of

 red embroidery floss.

 

I know the color,

I can find it in nature,

 and

 in faded velvets,

and

time-worn corduroys...

 

See that little pincushion?

That shade of red makes my heart flutter...

I want to use it in everything I make.

Anyone else?

 

I just cannot seem to locate it in hand dyed flosses...

{sigh}

 

Is it just me?

Anyone else?

 

For lack of a better word,

I call it faded red. 

Yea, I know...

real original!

 

 See those dried up berries?

That's the color...

See the light and darker tones within those berries?

Now,

 wouldn't that make a lovely

 variagated

 hand-dyed floss?

 

Not too

 orange-ish,
not too
pink-ish,

 and

 not too

 burgandy-ish.

Just perfect-ish...

 

Someday when I feel industrious,

I'm going to take a skein of,

 say,

 DMC 355.

I'm going to spill some watered-down bleach on it...

to take a bit of the color out,

fade it...

(works when it's not supposed to)

and then,

spill some coffee on it,

to slightly yellow it,

and

 mellow it

and give it that dirty & grungy look...

(works when it's not supposed to)

 

whatcha think?

will it work?

 

I'll let you know when that someday happens...

 

With thy Needle & Thread,
Brenda