MARY CORBET's Coloris Kaleidoscope

MARY CORBET’S Coloris Kaleidoscope

Materials After finishing the closely grouped First, embroider the line in the innermost lines, I skipped forward design that does not have any • Fabric: White linen backed to the next group of three lines, breaks in it. This is a continuous with cotton muslin. pictured above. These are worked burst pattern, and it will cross over • Threads: in stem stitch, in pinks, from light the pink stem stitch lines. DMC Coloris: 4507 to dark, with two strands of floss DMC Embroidery Floss: in the needle. For these lines I Layer 2 of the burst pattern seems blue (798, 799, 800) used 603, 602, and 600. to pass over and under the pink pink (600, 601, 602, 603) stem stitch lines and the previous aqua (959) To come to a sharp point with Layer 1 of the burst pattern. The turquoise (3808, 3811) stem stitch. line of chain stitch simply breaks • Embroidery needles #7 and #9; and starts again to give the effect tapestry #26 The Coloris bursts are worked in of passing under those previously • 8” embroidery hoop chain stitch, with two strands of stitched lines. • Embroidery Scissors floss in the needle to create a • DMC Embroidery Transfer Pen nice, bold line. On the printable pattern, you’ll see where the line of layer 2 Instructions: breaks for the pink stem stitch group of lines. Use that break to Stitch from the inside of the gauge where you pass over and kaleidoscope design to the break for subsequent stitched outside. lines.

The innermost line is worked with Coloris 4507, with two strands of floss in the needle, using stem stitch.

The next three lines out are worked in blues, from dark to light, in backstitch, with two strands of floss in the needle.

© 2016 Mary Corbet’s Needle ‘n Thread Just remember: the first layer of the burst is a continues chain stitch. On the second layer of the burst, work the chain stitch so that it looks like an over-under sequence.

Chain Stitches on a Sharp Corner: The outer edge:

To work the chain stitch on a The first element I stitched on the sharp tip, like the tips in the large outer edge are what I call the blue Coloris burst in the middle of the lobster claws. design, simply end each chain stitch line in the pattern as you The small scrolled base of these normally would with a little anchor blue lobster claws is worked in stitch at the end of the line. the dark turquoise, in stem stitch, using one strand of floss in the needle.

The blue layers are also stem stitch, worked in blue from dark to light, using two strands of floss in the needle.

For the pink triangular bunches on the outer edge of the design, I worked the swirled base in whipped backstitch, using the dark turquoise for the backstitch and light turquoise to whip the backstitch. I used two strands of floss in the needle. To whip the After making the little anchor backstitch, use the tapestry needle stitch, start a new line right up so your needle doesn’t snag your next to the end of the first line, as stitches. shown in the photo above. The pink bunch is worked in Aqua Layer: detached chain stitch, from dark pink to light pink. The two Once the Coloris bursts were detached chains at the base of the finished, I added three layers of bunch are 600, the next two up stem stitch in aqua around the tips are 601, the next two are 602, and of the burst. Use two strands of the last three detached chains at floss in the needle for each layer. the tip are 603.

And that’s it! The design is finished!