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Day 1 of Magical Color with Jennifer Riefenberg. I purchased both colorways (cool and warm). How could anyone buy one without the other? It’s like reading half of a book!

Kathy Rees sat next to me and she decided to stitch the warm colorway. So, I went with the cool colorway. That allowed us to see the color develop simultaneously across the color wheel of canvases that both create. Kathy makes as great a fellow student stitcher as she does a teacher.

Class started at 9 am. I am not a morning person. First we color matched lengths of thread from a ball of DMC #8 Perle (strong colors). I hadn’t heard or read we needed about 1 yard/square. And, I hadn’t heard or read that Jennifer started in the lower right corner. So, I started on the bottom left corner to make the longest repeatable portion of the Arrowhead Pattern. There was enough to complete half of another row in the dark brown. For the rest of the square, I selected the lightest yellow portion. So, mine looks different from Kathy’s but the gist of the saturation still was relevant.

Row 1 Melita’s on the left and Kathy’s on the right.

Row 2 Melita’s on the left and Kathy’s on the right. Here the thread, Impressions, was muted compared to the thread used in Row 1.

After the Farewell Dinner as we watched the World Baseball Classic, I finished the 2nd row of my warm canvas.

To maximize the color experience, we’ll only work the first step on each of the 5 rows before doing more steps.

During class Jennifer discussed the saturation aspects of both threads we used as it related to the warm and cool canvases. She talked about value, contrast, and more. Luckily, this is all written out for us to digest.