Good morning and happy Day After Thanksgiving!
Today, we kick off A Stitcher’s Christmas! This is a series of pre-Christmas give-aways here on Needle ‘n Thread for some delectable embroidery stuff, just in time for Christmas!
I’m kicking off the series with some gorgeous over-dyed threads, courtesy of Colour Complements…because, after all, who doesn’t like thread?
Colour Complements is a small hand-dyeing thread business in British Columbia, Canada. Lorraine dyes all kinds of threads in beautiful colors!
While she carries many standard thread types and weights (like perle cottons and cotton floss), Lorraine also dies a lot of specialty thread – like this Kreinik Braid or these Very Velvet Petite threads.
Lorraine dyes groups of shades in color families, called TRIOS, in #5 perle cotton. They’re perfect for working in color themes, especially on crazy quilts, needlepoint canvases, and the like. Fun!
And of course, you can find various weights of threads all available in the same color families so that you can mix thread weights (for example, perle cottons 5, 8, and 12, and stranded cotton) and maintain color consistency. To easily find all the threads weights in any given color, you can browse through her shop here.
If you stumble upon a color scheme you really like – say, this frosty 6-stranded cotton that would work great for a winter scene – just note the color number (in this case, 162) and search her Etsy shop for that number. All the thread weights available in that number will show up in the search results, like this.
Give-Away Guidelines
Today’s give-away is the winner’s choice between either this thread sampler set in burgundy and green, or, if burgundy and green aren’t your thing, six skeins of whatever threads you want from the Colour Complements shop.
To join the give-away, please follow these guidelines:
This give-away is now ended – thanks for participating!
1. Leave a comment below. You can follow this link to get to the comment box. Comments left on other articles on Needle ‘n Thread or sent in via email are not eligible.
2. Please leave a recognizable name either in the name line or in the comment box, so that there’s no confusion when the winner is announced. You are not required to fill in the “Website” line on the form. This is for folks who have their own website or blog. Just leave it blank if you don’t have one.
3. In your comment, please answer the following question:
What are your favorite colors associated with Christmas or the winter holidays?
Are you a pink / pale green person? A dark burgundy and gold person? A blue and silver person? A bright Christmas red and green person? Do you go for contemporary color themes? Muted color themes? Do you like icy blues and whites? Or do you eschew common color schemes and go for something totally unique? Spill your guts about color! I’m curious!
4. Submit your comment by Wednesday, November 30th, 5:00 am central standard time (that’s in Kansas, USA). The winner will be randomly drawn that morning and announced at the beginning of Wednesday’s give-away. I’ll also notify the winner by email, so please make sure you enter your email address correctly on the comment form.
5. The winner will need to respond with mailing information within 48 hours, or another winner will be randomly drawn.
The give-away is open to everyone. You can enter each give-away in A Stitcher’s Christmas when they are published here on Needle ‘n Thread, but you can only enter each give-away once. Please don’t leave multiple comments on any one give-away.
Go forth and comment! And before you know it, you may be reveling in a nice new collection of gloriously colored threads from Colour Complements!
Don’t fret if your comment does not appear on the site immediately. Comments are queued for moderation, to avoid spammers. Sometimes, it takes a while for me to work through the list, but eventually, it will show up!
Jody Brennan
I like green for color and silver for sparkle.
The very traditional Christmas red and green are my favorites with some sparkly gold or silver added to the mix.
I’m a blue/silver/white person, and have a huge collection of baubles that reflect this colour theme that I’ve collected since I was 18 (so nearly 30 years now.. eeek!) my personal favourite are cobalt blue glass baubles with white and silver so I have quite a lot of those. But I also have ice blue and medium blue baubles to keep the colours a bit more balanced. I use dark blue ribbons to tie the baubles into the tree (a fake as I’m allergic to real trees), a hold over from when I had a cat and wanted to make sure the baubles *stayed* in the tree – it was also handy when the kids were little! I have only lots a few baubles over the years to breakages, mostly due to butterfingers while getting them out of the box or dropping them while getting them out of the tree again.
Last year I thought I wanted to go more colourful by adding a load of green red and gold baubles into the mix along with a whole load of hand made ornaments but deeply regretted not staying with my usual colours so this year it’s full on blue and white/silver again for the main tree and the tree on the hall table can have all the colourful hand made items with some other things mixed in.
I really like burgandy and silver. Its not exactly Christmas colors in the traditional way but I like burgandy in my life…whether color OR wine!
Christmas colours for me are red and green, I am happy to throw in a bit of gold, silver, white, blue and purple, no pastel shades please. Loud bright showy warm and welcoming thats what I like. A bit like me really I suppose.
I love overdyed threads. I am a red and greeen or silve and icy blue type on stitcher
My favorite colors are frosty blues with whites and silver. Happy Thanksgiving Mary for you and your family 🙂
I am one of the people who prefers silvers and blues for Christmas and winter. The red/green combination is just too contrasty for me.
Hi Mary! Thank you for the giveaway, these are some seriously yummy threads you’re featuring!
My kind of Christmas is traditional: dark green, bright red, gold. We had a few decorations every year in that scheme.
I lin a small studio of my own during the grad school semester though, and since I didn’t have enough money to invest in a full redecoration, I opted to add sparkly silver and shiny white balls, ribbons and stars to my walls, to go with my grey/white and with pops of turquoise, light green, purple and pink decor.
I am a red and green Christmas color person although the red and green I like to use are deeper, more saturated colors than the usual reds and greens, with just a touch of gold for accent.
Hi Mary, You are getting me in the Christmas mood! Thanks! I love everything (and every colour) about Christmas and gravitate towards the traditional red and green. However, I love stitching with sparkling silver (with icy blue) and sparkling gold (with red or even black!!) … generally anything sparkly catches my eye. Thanks from Canada, from the far east!
Red and White would be my pick.
The colors of this giveaway are gorgeous!!!! Thank you.
My favorite colors for Christmas are red and green. I have quite a few OLD Christmas decorations from my mother and my late mother-in-law so those colors go perfectly with these items! And those two colors just warm my heart, bringing memories of Christmases past with my family
My favorite colors for Christmas are reds and whites/creams very simple. l do like to add a little aqua or mint green and some chocolate as everything is better with a little chocolate.
Becca
My fave colours for Christmas are Royal Blue, Silver and white with clear lights. I add to the wintery look with clear glass icicles and ornaments. Eventually I want to have a bunch of hardanger ornaments as well.
I love all colors for Christmas. After being raised in a white light, red and gold house, I found great freedom in multicolor lights and hodge-podge ornaments.
My Christmas inspiration is the old time ribbon candy that my grandmother used to have in a glass jar next to the couch in her living room.
Hi
The colours depend on what I am making. I tend to lean to traditional green, red, gold and white. I will sometimes use blues and whites.
Favorite colors for Christmas are red and green. I like either bright red or burgundy, and a green that is dark, but not too bright. I save that shade of green for St. Patrick’s Day!
Love all the colors
Burgundy and silver…all the way!
I like a vintage/woodland color scheme, so mostly red and green with brown’s and whites for the woodland background and snow.
Thank you for the opportunity to try these beautiful threads. I am a burgundy & gold person.
When I grew up in 1970s Netherlands, although some colour was beginning to creep into Christmas tree decorations, the majority (at least of the ones I saw) were still either silver or gold. We were a silver household :-). And white lights. It took abit of getting used to when I married into an English family whose Christmas decorations were every colour of the rainbow plus a few extra thrown in, and who thought any string of Christmas lights with less than four colours weren’t worth considering (at least they weren’t of the blinking variety…)
I’ve adapted and now quite like the colourful tree, but every year there is this secret hankering for a white-and-silver Christmas tree like I used to decorate with my mother.
I love colour complements. Only criticism is that because it ships from Canada, it takes forever to arrive. No instant gratification.
I love burgundy and gold. The seem to be regal colors.
Diana
Oh so many possibilities!!! my most favorite is blue and silver!! with red and gold a close second
Red, green and silver tho not very strict about it. Any Christmas decorations given to me as presents come out as well.
Multiple shades of grey with ivory and hints of muted golds. These colours reflect my preference for winter country scenes. They can be displayed throughout the season and beyond.
Although red and green hues are the traditional colors of Christmas, my favorites are silver and gold. Those two colors usually make me begin to sing an old Girl Scouts song I learned growing up. “Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver and the other gold.”
Threads for christmas. Yum! Thanks Mary and Lorraine
I change my colours every christmas, this year I’m favouring dusky pink and coppery gold, with a hint of light green. Last year was blue and silver and next year? Who knows maybe I’ll go back to burgundy, dark green and gold-I haven’t used that for a while
Thank you for this chance to win….I love all colours. I appreciate your website with all the information you provide. Thank you for this.
I would love to win some threads! They’re beautiful, and the creator of these threads lives one province over. That’s kind of cool. My colour palette changes with seasons, however I’m always drawn to colours with pink and green in them. They’re a bit contemporary and a Bit traditional
I love the old “traditional” Christmas colour best, but with these delicious threads any colour combination can be made to work.
Such lovely threads and from a fellow Canadian too!!! Thank you so much for the giveaway!!! To answer your question, I’m a traditional victorian red, green and gold kind of girl when it comes to Christmas colours! My Christmas tree and my outdoor lights are in that theme.
I really like the shades of blue with silver!
I love icy blues and shimmering whites for Christmas but also like more traditional colors. Would love to win!!!
I am traditional when it comes to decorating for Christmas. I love red and green from bright to muted. A dash of gold or silver is good for making my decorations sing.
I have to say I really like all of the Christmas color schemes. I usually go for the red/green look but also must have one tree with blue/gold lights. I wish we could just have the look all year as it is so festive!
I love the frosty, silvery,pale sometimes pinky winter colours, I’m a British import living in Florida and miss those frosty mornings
I love reds of all shades but usually I love to do a deep red and silver for the holidays.
I love the muted greens and browns of winter’s foliage heavy with fresh
snow. Add to that the brilliant blue sky of a cloud free day and it’s perfect.
I am new to stitchery but I love the icy blues and whites. they just look so clean and crisp!
i love the deep jewel tones..blue, green, gold. they blend the canvas not showy. pat settle
I am a dark burgundy and gold person.
My favorite colour scheme during the holidays is a base of Spruce green, then all the bright colors of traditional Christmas tree bulbs. Candy Apple Red, Emerald Green, Sapphire Blue and Glittering Gold, Shimmering Silver of tinsel. These remind me of lying on the floor at night, staring up into the Christmas tree when I was a child. Ooh the beauty of it all! Thankful for this contest and all the beauty your website brings daily.
Averill V. Trotter
My favorite Christmas/ winter color combos are icy blue/silver/white, and red/white!
Thank you for the info on Colour Complements. One can never have too many places to buy beautiful thread!
I must admit I’m a bit of a traditionalist. My favorite colors for Christmas are red and green. The other combinations are usually pretty, too, but the red and green are what make me think of Christmas.
I ;ove traditional christmas red and holly green. It just speaks festivity and all things christmassy!
Red and green. Red, the color of Christmas found in poinsettias and ribbons and green for the pine trees and the color of life. They compliment each other and bring forth the joy of Christmas.
I am very much into the blue and silver colors. At my old job we did our Christmas tree in those colors and it is just astonishing
HI Mary,
More giveaway goodies….mmmmmmmmm!
I have to say that for Christmas I am a traditionalist. That means red, green gold and silver, and lots of sparkle with glass ornaments that have that special Christmas shine.
I love the colour selection with these threads.
What a great giveaway! I love Lorraine’s threads and use them often in my projects. My colours for Christmas? I love a pink/burgundy/green combination, so the threads shown would be perfect. Although our tree is traditional, and decorated with many handmade ornaments ( I still have some the kids made in grade school!) we have burgundy furniture, so the pink/burgundy/green colour theme seemed to work best. Thanks for the chance to win some thread goodies.
Thanks for the opportunity to win the thread. I always think of red and green as Christmas colors. I guess you could say I am very traditional. I am always amazed how thread gives me a thrill. Needless to say any color is very good.
My favorite colors for the winter holidays are the traditional Christmas Red and Green colors, with a hint of White and Silver. They bring back Christmas’s from long ago when we were all still at home.
My Christmas color scheme has always been golds, bronze and silver. These colors complement my everyday home color scheme. These threads are beautiful and I’d love to win a selection.
I love burgundy and a deep forest green. It makes me think of a colonial Christmas, or even Victorian. (But since Williamsburg Va is my second home, I ‘ll go with colonial/early American!)
Karen W.
I am a traditionalist so my favourite Xmas colors
are a rich deep red and a rich deep green
not the crayon colors 🙂
Carole Kennedy
Ottawa
Canada
Favorite Christmas colors…hmmm…well, I would have to say burgundy, hunter green and a touch of gold. I’m rather traditional, I think.
Hi, I love receiving your emails! Makes my day really bright and feeling really creative. I love muted colors, even for the holidays. Kind of a solstice feel, yet I’m always excited by jewel tones, but when it comes right down to it, I stick to muted. Thank you for your giveaways!
Joanna
I love love all colour .I am drawn to the more unusual colour combinations though and will always gravitate towards those combining lime green in strange ways. Lime green and purple, lime green and rust what ever and of course throw in a bit of sparkle.
Sue Thomas
My favourite Christmas colour combination is burgundy and white.
I choose the citrus colors of orange, lemon yellow and lime green with turquoise blue. And, a touch of red.
I live in Florida and see these colors in fruits and flowers and the Gulf of Mexico.
Thank you and may all of you have a great holiday.
My favourite holiday colours are blue and silver. I also love these threads!
Linda Lachance
My decorations are mainly along the traditional lines with red, gold and green. However, I also like pale blues, deep blues, teals, purple, lilac and silver as well, although I wouldn’t eschew my traditional decorations for that scheme as I think it would make me feel too cold (and all the decorations accumulated over the last twenty-something years wouldn’t get used, so that’s not going to happen!)
Best wishes
Ellie
My favorite Christmas color this year is orange — as in the fruit. My grandfather used to get an orange and a nickel in his stocking each Christmas, so I think of that story, and I think of mulled wine and cranberry orange bread … and I’ve thoroughly convinced myself that oranges are a perfectly naturally symbol for Christmas! 🙂
Oh ! I’m decidedly bright red and green. These colours remain me old Christmas with the natural tree and gifts under it and all that stuff. I love it.
Diane
Mary: On this day after Thanksgiving, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your invaluable contribution to the needlework community. In my opinion (one which I’m sure is shared by many others) you are rated with other treasures like Inspirations magazine and the A-Z Books. Thank you for all you have contributed to the needle workers community.
Now, to answer the question- my favorite Christmas color combination? I think that my overall favorite is the classic red green and gold. I find my eye drawn to that combination more reliably. Having said that, however, I have to admit I like all the classic combinations: blue /white/ silver, cream and gold..and on and on …is it any doubt my tree is a cacophony of color?
I love the colors shown,would love any of the colors.I love the icy blues and whites. thanks
Geeze, are you really going to make me pick just a few colors? I’m a little skitzo when it comes to color schemes as every time I do a piece that’s “outside” my color wheel, I love it. I keep telling everyone that I prefer primitive variegated colors but I just did a piece with solid brights that looks SOO festive. My husband even said “Wow”. So I’d be grateful for anything if I’m lucky enough to win. Best to you in this holiday season, I really enjoy getting your daily emails and so informative.
Christmas colours for us are the Summer colours. I associate winter with that absolutely georgeous minty blue green that you can see in a snowman or the ice fields in Antartica.
I am a traditional red and green gal. I always love to add sparkle with any beautiful new fiber I may find.
My favorite Christmas colors are different shades of brown and red.
Thank you! Thank you! for introducing me to a Canadian site! Living in a small Northern Ontario Canada community where we have very limited resources leaves me yearning for access to beautiful threads that I see. I would love to win this burgundy and green sampler pack! Thank you for the opportunity of winning this. My favorite Colors for Christmas are the muted burgundy, green and goldy browns. I love getting your emails and read and visit all the sites that you provide. Your stitching videos are my go to when I am having difficulty with a stitch.
My favourite colours are Christmas red and Christmas green. Red for Santa’s suit and Rudoloph’s red nose to complement my Santa collection. Bright green for Holly to add contrast around the room. Some touches of gold and silver to add sparkle.
I love deep blue and gold or silver!
Red and green AND blue and silver 🙂
I like bright reds and greens with sparkle mixed in.
Melanie Leigh
Just love your site and happy to comment on the Christmas colours. My favourites are burgundy and pink most of the time, but at Christmastime, burgundy and gold are really beautiful. I’m not crazy about the traditional colours because they’re just not mine. Wishing you a great Christmas and hope your Thanksgiving was bountiful.
For Christmas, I prefer the classic red, green and white old style colour.
Hello Mary. In response I can truly say that I have had Christmases of every color. I started out many years ago with traditional reds and greens, gone through a blue and white stage. Next a lavender and silver stage during my Victorian years when I was crazy quilting. Now-a-days I am still crazy quilting and sewing but have decided a dark cranberry, a dark green, white and silver is my favorite color scheme for Christmas because they are such rich and royal colors. I truly enjoy each of your pages.
Wishing you a Happy holiday season.
Hi Mary, What a great giveaway! Hmmm, What are my favorite Christmas colors? I love full on red any time of the year, But as I was going through my box of Christmas quilting fabrics this year, I ran into some of my more ‘Victorian’ type colors of burgandy and pink with a lighter green than usual for Christmas as well as a bit of metallic thrown in. A very beautiful fabric and I think I may have some coordinating fabrics as well. I think my theme is, using anything in the red family from the deep burgandies to light pink, with greens to match. Although blue and silve, and some of the other color combos you mentioned are pretty, they just don’t say ‘Christmas’ to me.
These color combinations are all so beautiful ….how can one choose! I can always
use leafy greens or a mix of blue and brown. These fibers are a crazy quilters dream.
Pat from Lebanon
I live in Florida and we do not have snow or much of a winter. While traditional Christmas colors (red/green) is nice, my favorite Christmas combination is icy blue and silver, so cool. Mary, enjoy your site it is one of my daily delights. If I win the traditional combination threads would expect perfect. I love these threads.
Thank you. Blessed holidays to you and your readers, MarjorieV
My favorite colors for Christmas, hmmmm, I suppose it depends on the project I am working on. But when I think of Christmas, red and green come to mind first. Icy blue and white are scrumptious also, those colors are so “winter”. Burgundy and pink remind me of my favorite colors to wear in the ’60s. So yes, to answer your question, red & green are Christmas to me!
I would love to try this thread. The colors are really pretty. I combine embroidery with my quilting projects. They turn out so pretty. Thanks, judy cox
I love the colours in this green and burgundy set! Lorraine has a great colour sense. For Christmas I love blue, red and silver. Very festive! Thanks for the chance to win these lovely threads.
I love icy whites, blues, and silvers, with matching beads and bangles!
Blue with silver and red accents, are my choice. Snowmen everywhere as they can be used all winter. I love the happy snowmen smiling at me during the cold months.
Color Complements is wonderful! They hit my favorite colors on the spot with the Burgundy and Green colorways. Pink and green have long been my go-to colors and would make a softened Christmas pallette.
I’ve always been partial to blue and white color schemes fo Christmas. Reminds me of cold winters in Minnesota where I grew up.
Our house is decorated in deep and bright reds, gold, & greens. The reds, greens and evergreens immediately make the house “Christmas-y” and the golds provide an elegant sparkle. We also have scented wax warmers working with spicy cinnamon smells which adds to the festive feeling. Love it!
Blue and silver is what I love.
I am a beginner at embroidery , so I am excited by all the colors.
I love your web site.
My Christmas colors are ‘Holly and Ivy’ with threads of GOLD!(….greens and red!)
I love the deep rich colors of Christmas, much like the Scandinavian colors of red, green, gold with black accents. The burgandy selection you have shown is beautiful and it would be great fun to try those colors.
Merry Christmas
Lois Wilmsen
I just got back into embroidery after years of beading, and these hand-dyed threads are making me drool. The colors have a lot of depth, as factory dyed do not, and the colors are rich yet subtle. Triple yum!
I love seeing all the different color combinations at Christmas time. Some are so ingenious! I love to see and learn from all of them. I have to say however, my favorite combination is burgundy and gold. I myself start with burgundy and gold ornaments and fill in with the ornaments I have had for years, many are antiques now, and the new ones from our Grandchildren. Ours is a mix of old and new, burgundy and gold and it works for us. Happy Holidays!
I love the lavenders and light blues for winter colors. So pretty!
Love the thread and am looking forward to looking at their website.
Sarah Lily
Oh Mary! My favorite winter colors change! This year I am really obsessing on greens, browns and reds of all shades. I have become super obsessed with embroidering pine needle wreaths of all shapes and sizes to give as gifts for the Holidays. Other times I’ll find or make a pattern and want it in blues and whites….I guess maybe I don’t have a real favorite…just whatever strikes me as best for the pattern I’m using. Its a conundrum!!!!!
While I do use blue and silver in my dining room because it complements the colors in there, I generally stick to the basic red and green. Having said that, the burgundy and green color sampler is gorgeous and has started me thinking of ways to decorate with those colors. It may be time for a change!
Mary I laugh about the color choices and say YES! to them all. Thanks Susie
I love crazy color combinations, but for Christmas I am a traditionalist, burgundy and gold are my favorites with a brighter red and gold a close second. I use cotton to crochet amulet bags in addition to embroidering and this green and burgundy are not colors I would normally put together so of course I love them. Even i8f I don’t win I may have to do something with these colors.
Oh so yummy. I’m always looking for s great source of hand dyed threads!!
Hi! I’m excited about your stitchers giveaway ~ I have never entered anything like this!! My favorite time of year is Christmas and I am a traditional girl … sooo my color scheme is the beautiful REDS and GREENS that go along with the season!
Blessings,
Lori
I am a traditional Christmas color girl: red and green !!
Color? I love it! I must have thousands of skeins of floss in every color imaginable. So many that my mind races as I try to choose colors for a project. Often it’s difficult to make a decision but even that is fun for me. Recently my curiosity has turned to varigated floss and the interest it brings to various elements of my stitchery. I’m also newly interested in combining different types of thread into a project. I often feel I could never have enough lifetimes to try every color in my stash. And then, the stash just keeps growing with more shades of every color. What a wonderful conundrum life can be. Color me happy! For Christmas stitching I’ve recently switched from traditional red and green to a more Victorian burgundy and green. I can’t say exactly why, but those colors just create a sense of total satisfaction in me.
Oh gosh, where to begin.. I think blues and white make me think of winter, for instance follow me if u will… Your standing in front of a forest with undistubed crisp, freshly fallen, white snow in the trees and on the ground on a full moon nite. The full moon gives a blue hue to everything . Blackish-blue starlit sky, hmm u can smell the freshest air ever. Yeah, I’d say blues and whites.
I love the look of opalescent/crystal/frost (think of the Nutcracker ballet and the Sugarplum fairy scene), plus also red/gold, or sometimes white/blue. It just depends. I think if I had my way, I would have a Christmas tree in every room!
I am a red and green Christmas girl. I like them on the dark side.
These are lovely threads. I am truly thankful for your blog and your great contributions to the world of. Needle N Thread
My reason is simple — I’m seriously addicted to any thread, no matter what the color. With some of these, I’d just go crazy — in a pleasant way, of course!
I like the traditional red and green. I enjoy working with bright pretty colors.
Well oddly enough you have made me realize by thinking about your question that I am a traditionalist when it comes to Christmas colour. I associate red, white, silver, gold and green with the season. I have though, been known to throw in a little hot pink.
I love dark red and green for Christmas with some gold mixed in!! Thanks Mary!
Threads I love them, different colors, different weights. For Christmas I use red, white and gold in the family room and dining area. Then I use burgundy, gold and silver in the bedrooms. I have a lot of handmade ornaments, some crocheted, some cross stitch and some quilted. I have a cathedral window wall hanging in shades of burgundy, gold and green all in silks.
May your holiday be merry and your health great fit the new year.
Love all that color! I am a traditionalist, love the reds and greens – the deep ones. I have found recently I am appreciating the very white of my mother’s hardanger which seems to brighten the red and green of Christmas.
Thanks
Mary Kay from Montana
I decorate the tree with wintery colors like silver, blue, and white…but the rest of the house is decorated with warm colors like dark burgundy, dark green, and lots of gold.
My current favorite Holiday colors are probably red, green and either silver or gold. And then use some cream with it.
Sarah Lily
Awesome
I’m a traditionalist. I like the burgundy/gold/hunter green color schemes along with the typical red/green mixture. While I enjoy the more contemporary schemes when I’m out and about, I don’t want to decorate with them.
My favorite holiday colors are deep red and green, especially when lit up on a Christmas tree or other Christmas lights. They remind me of Christmases during childhood when my mother would decorate the whole house using these festive colors.
Cobalt blue and white!
I tend to prefer deep vibrant colours from deep greens of evergreen trees to that amazing red of a poinsettia.
Even when I’m playing with more wintery colours from white to blue, I still like to have a really vibrant colour somewhere.
I love the combination of dark forest green with a rich burgundy and silver or gold metallic. With maybe a touch of purple.
I prefer a bright, happy color scheme for Christmas projects. Reds, greens, silver, and gold are my color choices to make my projects cheerful.
I am a great fan of cool blues and freezing whites. I especially love it when we’ve had snow.
I really like a few different themes for the holidays. I enjoy the traditional red and green colorway for the holidays, including all the different, bright, multi-colored lights on the trees and houses because it reminds me of far gone days of wonderful childhood memories. I love the blue/silver theme because, well, blue is my favorite color and it reminds me of winter – yes, I’m one of those that likes snow and winter 🙂 Lastly, I have to do some decorating in my hometown teams’ colors of Black and Gold (which is more of a bright goldy yellow – Go Pittsburgh!!). It all goes along with the fact that I just love color! – except pink – I HATE pink. :p. Sorry……
I generally like bright colours so burgundy and gold or blue and silver would be favourites for winter. The fashion world seem to think we want greys, browns and black but I say we want cheering up so would wear red.
Hi Mary,
I like to celebrate the seasons more so than the holidays that fall within them.
As far as winter, icy blues, winter white, some metalics in the silvery shades.
My favorite Christmas colors are the traditional red and green with a lot of gold thrown in to give it some glitter and glitz. I have used some of the Colour Compliments thread before and have found it to be of good quality. She does beautiful colors!
I love ❤️ All shades of red and gold, blue and silver and different shades of green.
The rich brown of cakes embellished with bright red cherries!
I love the colors and textures of your thread.
I love the contemporary color combos. Never did/do like crayon green.Red and aquas. Red and lime greens. Blue and white. I Like something that is winter vs. Christmas. Plus I love these gorgeous threads. Please pick me!
I’m a gold and plaid person for Christmas list ve that combination
Maryanne Wilson
Never mind thread giveaway, I might just use these colours for decorating a room
My favorite Christmas colors are what I call “old fashioned”. There are reds and greens, but with a touch of black that mutes them and makes them appear more natural. In combinatiin with the muted reds and greens I love the colors of the outdoors. Evergreens, pinecones, mosses, dried grasses. To all of this, add a cozy fireglow, and those are my favorite Christmastime colors.
Carla in Pennsylvania
The colors I most associate with Xmas are bight, vibrant red & green. I also like when a few other colors like purple, pink &a blue get tossed in..
Burgundy, green, and gold are my most favorite colors for Christmas. They are cheery and calming. They are reminders of intimate and blessed times with family. These colors are tranquil and elegant for such a special time of year.
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G’day there Mary,
I’m not a purple person but for some obscure reason I love purple and silver for Christmas. Maybe it’s a royal time I’m wanting but it looks stunning and suits my sense of the atypical at a typical time of the year.
Cheers, Kath
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Love the effect of gold and plaid!!!
Love color complements. At first I thought I was a red and green girl. But the more I thought about it I am really a icey blue and white girl. Being from the midwest, Christmas is about about snow and ice. Only colors I am not fond of for Christmas are the more modern pink and lime green although I actually have quite a bit of that in my decorating. So I guess I am inconsistent.
I’m a true red and true green Christmas person. I like the red to range from hot, tomato red to cool, cherry red. Green can range from not too dark or blue green to lots of yellow, please.
The burgundy/green thread sample pictured in today’s blog evokes Christmas nostalgia and just begs to be stitched. Then again a brilliant blue and silver would be so lovely. Thank you, Mary, for your phenomenal blog. Wishing you health and happiness.
I love a retro turquoise and red scheme with some shiny brite silver thrown in.
Christmas colors to me are purples greens and burgundy I love your site for links to buy thread from many different places and have learned so much on embroidery thank you Elizabeth Wynn from Hot Springs Arkansas
I am a very traditional person and I like the bright Christmas Red and the Bright Christmas Green. I love all things about Christmas.
Christmas colors for me are first, silver and blue. Then I like the traditional reds, golds, and greens. I’m just getting heavily into crazy quilting and collecting threads for the hand embroidery part. It is fun but a challenge working with the velvets and silks. My first project was a small Christmas stocking and a great learning piece. Different thread textures and thicknesses really make a difference. Perle cotton has been fun to work with and in variegated colors would be a lot of fun.
For me, green red and gold are the colors of Christmas. They are warm and cozy colors. I also like silver/blue, but that’s a combination that strikes me as very cold, so my decoration will always be red and gold on green fir…
Poinsettia red & christmas tree green-colors of Christmas for me! Thank you, Susan spierssusan52@gmail.com
I remember growing up, we always had blue lights on the Christmas tree. That is what I think of when I think of Christmas colors – blue lights on a green tree
Oh, I am a traditional red and green girl for Christmas.
Oh my! That is a difficult question as I enjoy so many color palettes. This year, I seem to be using more muted tones of the reds, greens, blues with bright golds! I have used Lorraines threads and they are wonderful!
I am a dark burgundy and gold person. I love the Victorian colours and the history of Christmas.
Traditional Red and Green are my favourite Christmas colours – they don’t have to be bright though, but they represent the fir tree my Dad would cut for us to decorate ,Santa’s suit, holly decorations on our cakes and puddings, poinsettia and Christmas bell flowers. Of course in Australia there is always room for a little blue and yellow as well to represent the sun, sand and sea of our Summer Christmas holidays as well.
As far as decorating the tree though – I don’t like specific colour schemes. We always had a mixture of multi-coloured decorations, some handmade and others brought when I was young. I continued this tradition when my children were born and each year they received a new tree ornament, which was significant to their interests at that time. So multi-colours still rule, with a touch of sparkle, and each year the tree decorating brings back memories. When my teens eventually leave home, they will be given their “colourful box of tree ornaments” – but I will have them packaged in Red & Green!!
My favorite Christmas colour depends upon my mood. Some years it’s all red and green and other years it’s all silver and whites with some icy blues. Since I haven’t started decorating, it’s hard to say for this year. We’ve had a lot of sickness this fall so it may be silver and whites.
Vickie (vjvl51)
I love color! Usually jewel tones, but shades of green, blue and purple are my favorites. My absolute favorite color combo is green and purple, so your article about using it together totally made my day!
I am very traditional and love the basic “fire engine” red and “kelly” green, however lately I have enjoyed adding a pop of that bright lime green to make everything fresh and new!
My preference for Christmas decorating is turquois/blue/silver combination. I have a lovely collection of these colours for my tree, fireplace mantel and table center pieces. Christmas is always an exciting busy time here.
Wow! I am a traditional “red, ” “green” – and ” gold” girl. Those threads like amazing!
PS. I was in South Africa this spring and bought home several Isiphethu embroideries . It is such a worth while cause and the Mapula Embroidery Group South Africa embroideries are so colourful and unique. It would be wonderful to see a mention or article on them in your blog.
I’m definitely a blue and silver sort of girl….which is why I love the Frosty on Lorraine’s site. I have some of her threads and they are really nice.
My favorite Christmas color is pale blues with sparkly whites thrown in and some beads.
Jean Manna
I think I have to go with blue and silver; I love trees with silver ornaments and blue lights. Thanks for the give-aways!
Thank you!
I love Christmas, with its music, decorations, the Nativity and children!
I have two favorite Christmas color themes, Blued and silver and red and silver. These colors bring out that Christmas vibe and I have Christmas fabrics waiting to be used!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all!
Wow, what beautiful colors, Yes Please. You have the most amazing blog. Always full of information and inspiration.
Icy blue and silver or white depicts beautiful icebergs and snowy landscapes. A sight not to behold.
I just purchased some threads from her. They are so rich in color.
I know the green and burgundy threads will also be as rich in color.
Thank you for the opportunity to win these threads.
Christmas would. Ot be Christmas without the true red and lovely deep green I associate with the season. From decor to personal clothing to special dished we use the red and green no matter
Where we are- but my favourite place is at My parents home where the great room is lined with cherry wood and all the fabric is Christmas plaid 🙂
My favorite color schemes for Christmas have changed over the years. When our children were small, I tended to decorate in bright colors. Of late, I have been continually drawn to more rustic colors for our decorating and love a woodland theme and all the colors associated with it.
My home has been decorated with silver, white and crystal for years. Your introduction to the burgundy, green and pink is a stunning push to get me to change my color scheme! I love using color in my art. There have been Victorian colors of sage and pink for table settings at Christmas. Now with the introduction of a new set of colors, and time, my home will have a whole new look next Christmas. Thank you so much!!!
OMG. I absolutely LUV color complements site I could sit and look for hours! She has the most beautiful threads! I’d be tickled to death to win anything from her!
My most favorite color of Christmas is red of course there are so many beautiful shades of it and silver
What a terrific giveaway! One can never have enough thread. And it doesn’t take up too much space. My favorite holiday colors are burgundy and gold, but I mix things up and don’t care if it all doesn’t match.
Have a wonderful holiday season.
Judy C from Wisconsin
Who doesn’t like gold at Christmas? Team it up with purple just to go over the top!
My favourite winter colours are white and blue, with some sparkle. Nice to know a thread dyer in Canada!
What lovely floss! thank you for the giveaway and for the great blog – I enjoy reading it and learn alot!
Ever since I was child, I have always thought of Red and Green as Christmas colors but as I got older, I realized Blue and Silver are especially festive too.
Hi Mary,
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!!
Iam definitely a red and green person first. Blue and white comes next.But I like to attempt it all – all colors for me,me for all!!
Regards,
Deepa
Christmas Colors – This is a sort of confusing topic for me … if left to my own devices, I am a very blue and silver with hints of gold person. But, I am rarely left to my own devices. My husband much prefers the traditional red and green. My kids were all about the multiple red, green, gold with occasional hints of blue. My grandkids are pretty much the same – red, green, gold, blue. I recently begun experimenting with what have been touted as Victorian colors … a not quite teal blue with a not quite burgundy (very light, tending toward pink).
I’m a traditionalist. True red and green fit my Christmas spirit but adding a bit of gold or silver makes it even better.
Jane
I Love the Red and green in the traditional . The Bright Red and the Bright Green. I love everything about Christmas
As I get older I appreciate tradition even more so red and green with maybe a touch of sparkle has to be my favorite
Good morning! First, let me say …you are always so generous! These giveaways and all your time and energy teaching, training, and sharing with us all the information about the wonderful art of embroidery and thread!
OK, answer to the question of color for Christmas….I love color ;D But, I guess I am a traditionalist with the red and green but my eyes revel in the pink and blue and green that are pastels. Kind of hard to choose!
Christmas blessings,
Margeaux Holland
I love the pale Christmas colors…the pale pinks, greens, blues and yellows…these threads are sooo pretty!
Used to be a burgundy and gold but have been edging towards contemporary! Fun to keep,changing.
Hi Mary 🙂
Not sure I go for colour schemes per say, but more with themes for my Christmas decorating. I mean I have a carousel theme which includes jewel tones and gold. This year I have a bird/wildlife theme and the colours are a cardinal red with rustic colours and burlap. I even have a cardinal tree topper, lol. But I definitely like stronger colour themes. Not a fan of pastels or real muted colours, and definitely don’t like blue and silver. Thanks for the chance to win 🙂
My favorite Christmas colors are gold, green, purple, and red! Merry Christmas!
Color, color, color. Do I love color! Burgundy, green and gold sing to me. Use these colors next to gold for a magnificent Christmas background.
I like silver and blue. Starting monthly crazy quilt and think blue and silver woul be great for January block. Thanks for giving us a chance to win.
Beautiful colors. I love the traditional bright green and red for Christmas.
I live in the wintry north where white, grays and browns are the common colors you see outside. So for Christmas I tend to go for bright color. Chartreuse and reds are the colors that brighten up my winter day.
I like the traditional red/green theme of the holidays, but if I’m choosing the colors, add a pink and light green accent to whatever I’m doing. It adds depth.
Golds, evergreens, pine cone browns and burgundy reds And alpine whites, greys and blues with silver.
Thanks for the chance
Traditional red and green. The threads look lovely in giveaway!
Snow colors are my favorites. If you haven’t had a chance to observe fields of snow at dawn or twilight, think of the colors of a sunset over a lake then gently softened by snow. The results are pale, soft grays, pinks, peaches, blues, lavenders and yellows. Some times it is so subtle you have to will yourself to stay put for a chance to absorb the scene. It’s one of the main reasons I don’t leave Minnesota for warmer places during our long but quietly spectacular winters.
My favorite color for Christmas is snow white (since I love snow) and any color you can add.
Absolutely love all the tutorials you give us they have helped me with my stitches.
I prefer bright reds with sage green for colors at Christmas
My favorite Christmas colors are the colors most associated with the Victorian or Regency Eras. Dusty rose, blueish reds like wine or burgundy, greens along the line of forest or thicket, dusty pastels and of course, Old Gold and silver.
I love the selection of threads you chose.
I love burgundy and gold or blue and silver for Christmas.
i like red and green with a hint of gold thanks for the give away
marysue c
Good morning Mary.
My biggest problem with choosing a favourite colour group is deciding on just one group. I love the subtlety of soft pinks, greens and blues, what I call ice cream colours of the summer. At Christmas time I’m usually working with deep blue and white as this reminds me of a midnight sky and deep snow. However my favourite, if a choice must be made, would be the rich burgandies and golds that put me in mind of not only fall but of history, monarchs, castles and grand cathedrals.
I, too, am a thread junkie especially as it relates to colour. I have the same passion in painting and to this day I have trouble passing beautiful materials in a rainbow of shades, even though I haven’t sewn a stitch in years!
I love red, black, white, and silver together for the holiday season.
I usually like darker blues and white because that extends into winter colors. But I am also open to new combinations of colors.
How boring am I? I go for the classic Christmas red and green with a splash of gold!
I have always been a traditional Christmas color person, but of late I find I’m drawn to some of the more modern colors too. The threads you are showing today are beautiful.
Shades of green, burgandy and a touch of gold.
I am passionate about color! My friends comments about how I dress usually refer to the color not the style. However,in stitching my favorite color is variegated! Christmas we use the turquoise,silver,black and hot pink color scheme or the chartreuse green and true red color scheme. I think when you have happy colors around you in your environment they lift your soul. This is Ro Ro hoping you have a colorful day.
My favorite colors for our winter holidays have always been white, silver and blues. As far back as I can remember in grade school, I always made my Christmas cards for mom and dad in blue foil and silver. Looking at these threads from Color Complements has really inspired me to get back to stitching on my crazy quilt table runner
Beautiful threads! My favorite Christmas colors are the traditional red/green with accents of silver.
Beth Marine
I’ve become fond of the aqua/lime green/pink combo lately. I also like the blue/silver traditional scheme.
Thanks for offering a great giveaway!
My favorites are traditional bright red and green.
I like dark red and dark green for Christmas decorating
What a treat! Amidst all the Black Friday ads…a moment to talk about my favorite topic….Colors! Hmm…and Christmas colors no less! Awesome!! Well, I LOVE Red All the time…so naturally when holidays come along that embrace “red”, I’m always in my comfort zone!
I just started quilting, and a first for me, made a tall tree wall hanging using all Laurel Burch xmas fabrics…Lots and lots of colors! Very fun, not traditional at all, but an amazing opportunity for lovely embroidery embellishments! I’m thinking gold brocade on the tree skirt to start, then who knows! I enjoy a project that lets me run amuck! Colors Everywhere! Some are matchy matchy, and some are eclectic and unique…lots of room to play for sure! Happy Creative Holidays!
My favorite Christmas colors are deep burgundys, frosty whites, glittery golds and a bit of evergreen!
My first Christmas Color thoughts are always for my grandmother’s bubble-light tree, pops of color against white and silver. It mesmerized me for entire visits to her house between Thanksgiving and Christmas. I still like the mix of colors at Christmas, though I tend to wrap gifts in blue, white, and silver.
The choices for colorways in the Color Complements shop is hard to limit to one– the moody colors of Sampler threads 5, 8, and 19 are draws, though. And then there are the silk perles and the lively perle 3 cottons for texture . . . How to choose a favorite from all those possibilities?
My favorite thread color is dark green. I like it because any other color goes with it. For our wedding 54 years ago, I chose dark green and light blue. And in stitchery, nature loves greens as much as I do. Looking out the window this time of year, greens abound with tans and browns.
The colors that are shown are some of my favorites! I’m currently working on Christmas ornaments for my 2 grandchildren and these would work beautifully. Thank you for all you do and getting this Grandma interested in embroidery
I love traditions therefore I love a bright Christmas with lots of red and green!! But no matter the color I love Christmas!!!!
My favorite winter holiday colors are white, silver and blues. As far back as I can remember, I always made my Christmas cards for mom and dad with blue foil and silver. Looking at these beautiful threads from Colourcomplements, has inspired me to get back to stitching my crazy quilt table runner. These burgandies and greens would compliment my pink table runner.
I love pure bright clear reds with slightly blued greens. Some gold and silver sparkle could join the party…
I love pink, pale green, Burgundy and gold together. The glitter of silver and gold warms me at Christmas but also all year round. Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah!
Oh, so many Christmas choices! I definitely go for icy blues, with silver or white. And, I totally love that blue and pale green floss that you pointed out! Of course I Also love rich, saturated colors, too! How to choose only one?
Hi …I love your blog and website
Christmas…very true evergreen with cherry reds…
Winter blue silver and white
What a wonderful array of colours. Perfect for Christmas also to just hold them and enjoy the coloureds and see what you would use them for!
My favorite Christmas colors are burgundy and green with a touch of gold here and there. I’ve learned so much from your blog. Thank you very much for the opportunity to win,
Paula
Yo, I’m a burgundy/gold person from way back. Seriously, at one point in time, all of my clothes and accessories were these colors. (If they weren’t angry-teenager black, of course.)
Then, I realized that my favorite color had changed to blue and that I had no blue clothes or accessories. Now… I do. And I’m starting to shift towards a love of green. Natural greens. Trees and grass and such. But that may be a winter phase.
Oh! Fun fact! (I think… my facts are more like half-remembered “facts”…) There is a theory that in antiquity, there was no color blue. It isn’t mentioned once in The Odessey (okay, I’ve spelled that five different ways now, spell-check is no help, so that’s the spelling I’m going with) and that pretty much takes place entirely on the sea. So. Oh, and they found a group of people who can’t see blue, but! can see far more shades of green than most people. It’s all about perception.
I like a mixture of burgundies, lime green and gold for sparkle
First, I love Colour Compliments threads! I used them in a project not that long ago. I am a traditional red and green person. My Christmas tree is full of an odd assortment of colors, but when I think of Christmas, I think red and green…
I love the Christmas Holiday, looking around my house I have two color waves going. The traditional Christmas Red and Green with a touch of gold on the tree and surrounding areas. For example bath and hand towels in the bath room as well as the kitchen. However, for my dinning room table I love it to be sparkly and cool looking so it’s mostly icy blue and white. White tablecloth with a thin line of silver woven into it with sparkly pale ice blue placements with diamond looking napkin rings. Once the candles are lit it sparkles like crazy. Best time of the year.
I tend to change but I do like green and silver with dark purple or a deep red. I look back and see ornaments I have made in the past and the colours are very different from year to year. Threads have also changed We have so much more choices…
I love trying new threads on common stitches because they all look different. Happy holidays, Cindi
I have always been a traditional red, green, gold person, but now I find myself leaning toward Aqua, silver, white.
I love traditional red and green. I love gold too. But really every color ius beautiful.
I am a purple and Gold fiend, and finally purple has become part of the.”in” colours so its so much easier to buy my purpleornies and lights and everything else I can add to my tree.
I love the winter whites and silvers. All clean and twinkly against a dark sky.
My favorite winter colors are roses and reds.
I love traditional red and green!
I love thread. I lovemaking samplers of stitches but not the kind of old fashion ones. Mine are very free-form. Hope I win.
Ricky Chestnut
I’m in the Southern hemisphere, so Christmas is a braai (bbq) or cold food for us! My fave colours, though, are burgundy and silver and blue – more of the last two because mid-30° C is hooooot and everyone’s melting 🙂
Thank you for your hard work!
StelliesTessa in Jozi
While I do love blue and silver, I think my favorite colors for Christmas are the old red and green standby. I guess I’m traditional that way.
Hello Mary,
For Christmas I am rather dark burgundy and gold. I find it deep and rich as an association for celebrate Christmas. I reserve my attraction for pink and pale green for spring that demands more lightness.
I submit my idea to “Mr. Google” which is a pleasure to translate !!!
Friendships of France,
Claude
A nostalgic feeling permeates my senses when I see beautiful cardinal red combine within a deep forest green Christmas fabric, threads, decorations of any kind. Mary, I hope your Christmas will be a wonderful and healthy one.
My favorite colours are silver and white, for snow, red and black, reminds me of Santa. I love candlewick embroidery for Christmas decorations.
I love pale blue and white! I throw in some mint green or silver too to mix it up, but pale blue and white make me shiver just seeing them 🙂
Wow Mary, what an absolute riot of colour in the Colour Compliments shop. I do love traditional red, green and gold on my tree, I think it is warming and reminds me of my childhood (a long time ago now). However, just lately I’ve been looking for threads for the dragon pattern from Rose works that I’ve purchased, thanks to your newsletter, and love the jade’s and golds. There are so many wonderful colours now it is hard to choose.
Alex, Taunton UK
Oh, boy! Colors! These showcased today are scrumptious! I’ve always been a red and green Christmas person, but lately as Christmas has become so commercialized, I find myself leaning more toward blue and silver or gold, which I feel represent our Lord and better reflect the true meaning of Christmas. I’m also kind of surprised to find that, in general, my color preferences have moved to the more vibrant shades in recent years, although I do enjoy all colors.
Thanks for the giveaways! What fun!
First I would say Thank You Lorraine & Thank you Mary. I use Lorraine’s thread in crazy quilting and I love them! For Christmas I am a real traditionalist. I like red & green combined with gold. This is the color palette I have used for the crazy quilt stocking I am completing for my granddaughter.
I am pretty traditional when it comes to Christmas colors, so I generally go for rich and elegant greens and reds with gold metallics thrown in. But if it were a more whimsical piece, I might go for slightly bolder shades of those colors. But it would depend on what I was stitching; a snow scene, for example, would call for blues and whites and silvers. So the complete answer depends on what I am stitching but the short answer is red and green!
I like burgundy and gold.
I also like a Victorian color scheme of dusty pink, cream and gold!
I’m very much a traditionalist and decorate for Christmas in red and green, with a splash of gold here and there.
I love all Christmas colors. It doesn’t have to be the standard red and green. The blues and the silvers, the aqua and turquoise colors are awesome also. I can really get creative with the added colors.
Shelli Cerone
I like a colorful Christmas with lots of sparkle. I decorate with bright colors and both gold and silver. I love the traditional look with plaids and cozy knits with a bit of rustic woods thrown in. If I had to name my style I would call it ‘A Midwestern Farmhouse Christmas’.
I love the traditional colors of red and green, all sparkled up with silver and Gold!
I am a big fan of needlepoint pictures which use the same shades to create a lovely picture. Thread textures really bring out the picture so you don’t necessarily need a bunch of other colors. I would love to win one of thread packs you are giving away. I promise it won’t sit on a shelf and remain unused. As far as my Christmas colors, I really like icy whites with blue accents although we do have a very traditional tree with ornaments we’ve collected over the years. We string garland and beads to really make it stand out.
Thanks, Susan
Beatiful threads. My favorite colours for christmas is red and gold. When it isn’t christmas, I love blue, pink and purple.
What a glorious giveaway! Thank you! I am a red and green person but the pink and aqua has been gaining in recent years!
I love the traditional colors, red and green. But I also like blues and silvers.
Beautiful colours. Colour Complements – Canada YAYA!
I would love to do your amazing Kaleidoscope pattern with wonderful happy colors! My choice of colors is always the jewel tone ones leaning towards purple, magenta, turquoise and of course a beautiful rich green. Hope you have a very Merry Christmas.
I still love the muted burgandy, hunter green, and gold colors. That hasn’t changed over the years!
I have come to the conclusion that I am a traditionalist. I love red and green for Christmas, pastels for Easter, browns and golds for thanksgiving. Then about four years ago, my husband Jim came home with a white
Christmas tree and lots of blue and silver ornaments. Oh no, this shattered my plans of my traditional green tree with the ornaments I had collected over the 50 plus years of our marriage. Each year we put it up, and I’ve learned to love it. So, looking at these beautiful dyed colors, especially the maroon with lime green, which as a traditionalist I would never have put together in the past, I now have stretched my color choices. I love these threads and colors!
My favorite colors are purple. Love all the shades.
I absolutely love colour compliments threads. I love stitching with variegated threads. The green and burgandy is lovely but my favorite colours are autumn rusts and golds.
Beautiful colours. Colour Complements – Canada YAYA!
Red is my favourite Christmas Colour
Love Christmas colors burgundy and golds.
I love the shine of reds and greens. But, what sets apart the mood of Christmas and the season are the colours blue and white. Imagining satin cushion covers with blue and white sashiko or pretty French knots to show lavender fields.
That’s thready love! 🙂
I seem to be drawn to the traditional colors of Christmas – reds, greens and golds. I like them both bright and muted. It depends on what I’m working on and/or decorating.
I am truly a red and green person for Christmas. But….I have found the green I really love is “lime” green. It is such a festive color to add to my tree and decorations around my home. It just makes me happy!
Those thread colors are yummy!
I, Judith Lawrance, almost find it difficult to,list my favorite Christmas colors–all colors are beautiful! However, for Christmas I always think of lovely greens and reds along with sparklimg white–and perhaps a touch of yellow!
This got me thinking. Initially I said Christmas red and green, but when I think of my tree ornaments I see they are gold, burgundy red and emerald green. We do need some sparkle on our trees and in our lives.
Have done a lot of needle work over the years — ornaments are a favorite–
love the colors —
I made a bunch of folded fabric stars and my favorite colour combination is burgundy and a medium to dark green. I’ll have to check out Colour Compliments as I live in BC too. Thanks for the lovely giveaway.
My favorite Christmas colors, the thing I always think of first, is a strand of multicolored lights we put on our tree every year. The bulbs were old, and the color on them chipped and faded, but the blues and pinks and yellows and silver/purple/whites always gave me the warmest feelings inside.
I’m a sucker for traditional red, green & gold. If it includes plaid, I’m a gonner!
Just recently I have gone for copper and gold. Rich and warm with a bit of sparkle.
I am more the traditional red and green Christmas color scheme type. I do like other combinations that I have seen, but I always return to the traditional (to me, at any rate).
Over the years my favorite colors have evolved but always seem to return to the traditional deep cherry red and dark evergreen. Oh, I have a small frosted tree in white and silver but the main tree is dressed in the traditional colors. And nothing says Christmas like a velvet red bow on a fragrant evergreen wreath.
I tend to stick to traditional red and greed but would love to do something in lime green / burgundies / with a touch of pink ! Ava G in louisiana
What a great giveaway for Christmas, I’ve been meaning to try them… just haven’t got around to it yet. My favorite colors would be any blends from the cool color palettes, but I am a traditionalist at Christmas and clear red and green would be my choice for Christmas.
I love loads of color, but traditional red and green at Christmas are my favorite with lots of sparkle added in.
I like silver colors for Christmas. They add sparkle .
Love the purple and green….purple is my very favorite color.
I’m currently working on some Christmas pillows; white poinsettia on red shantung and red on white satin.
I follow your on Facebook and sent you a prayer shawl …
Christmas brings out a thrilling palette of colors during a dull landscape. I enjoy the burgundy and gold colors in the living room and dining room. The angels on the tree with burgundy ornaments bring warmth to the room. The summer room takes on a different mood with aqua/ silver ribbons and nautical ornaments. Other rooms have smaller artificial trees with dried arrangements in muted colors. Christmas for me is a wonderful holiday of spiritual renewal,happiness and bursts of color!
Carolyn S. Freehold,NJ
I like deep green with gold and a few red highlights.
(Or really, any of the color schemes I have read about here. )
It’s hard to pick just one color scheme (for anything, really!); but if I had to pick just one, it would probably be blue and gold, with blue and silver running a close second. I’m not a huge fan of “bright” Christmas red, and for some reason I’d never thought of doing burgundy instead. So, I’m glad to have encountered that idea here!
My favorite color combination for Christmas is gold and white!
I would love to do a tree in pinks and gold, but since I buy a real tree every year, I stick to my usual homemade and store bought decorations. I have saved a lot of my kids decorations over the years, so their creations are hung first.
So my tree is more traditional , red and green.
I think my favorite colors for Christmas are blue, white and silver! Thanks for a great giveaway!
Love the true basics but also love old time colors and even the brights. Guess I love color.
My favorite has to be gold and red.
For the last several years my sister-in-law has sent me peacock feathers as a gift . I am now almost obsessed with the peacock blues, and copper browns that the feathers have. They also have these lovely dark greens that seem so correct for winter decorating. I, too, have pets who love the tree, so the plastic ornaments go on the bottom, because the will be batted around and even carried off by both cats and dogs who love the holidays because there are new toys available.
My best seasonal wishes to everyone,
Linda
I’m very traditional–red and gold.
Icy blues and white, but also blue and silver Shirley Rajewski
I love burgundy/ gold combo for the holiday season.
I would have to say my favorite is blue and silver. Growing up, our tree was always decorated with blue lights and blue ornaments with silver icicles because it was my Dad’s loved it. My Dad passed away in 1998 less than 2 weeks after Christmas. So blue and silver at Christmas time always reminds me of my Dad.
My favorite colors at Christmas are red (or burgundy) and gold. Don’t know why, but I always gravitate to using those colors in my decorating. I get blasted with it every year when I open the containers of Christmas decorations. I just love the overdyed threads with their changes in color. I always change some floss or perles’ when I can to use these threads. They are so much more fun to use in a design. I love the subtle changes when stitching and can’t wait to see the overall effect.
I love gingerbread and gumdrop themes so I love green/purple/pinks/reds. Thanks for the chance to win! 🙂
Good day,
I always thought I was a traditional Christmas colored person.(red and green),but after seeing the burgundy and green, now they are my Christmas colors.
Than you,
Mary
Red! Green! Gold! Silver! White!
I love deep holiday colors, like burgundy and hunter green with a touch of gold. But I’d be happy to win the pictured threads…color decisions are so hard. 😉
Just want to say I am grateful for your recovery! You went through a lot with a positivity that is inspiring. As for color, I don’t even have to think about it. Serene aqua has been my favorite color for my entire life, and it’s on my walls, in my closet, on my finger. Lorraine’s threads are beautifully dyed and a joy to work with.
Thank you for doing this! Your blog inspires me so much! My favorite holiday color scheme? All of them! I just love color, color, color! But if pressed, I’d say burgundies/pinks/lime greens/forest greens. And I love seeing new combinations. Thank you, Mary, and happy day after Thanksgiving!
I am very much a “silver” person so I would have to say blue and silver. I have a wreath made from blue and silver Christmas balls that I love the look of and hang it on the door ever year. I do have to say that I love this burgundy and green color scheme however. Lois A in M, ID.
I had to think about this one for a bit but it seems that lately my favorite color schemes tend to have purples and teals. However, I love almost all colors and as I get older, I find that colors (all shades) fill a spot in me and make me happy. Does that sound crazy?
I’m definitely a traditional tartan and woodland/birds Christmas girl! The best part is tons of real greenery and a pastoral nativity set.
Love the thread give-away and my most favorite Christmas colors are shades of old golds, old rose red and browns (like pheasant feathers).
I love the Burgundy and Hunter Green color combo for the holidays, but every one you listed are wonderful. The thread looks luscious and is screaming my name. My decorating colors depends on my mood at the time, sometimes very traditional and other times I go way out of the box. Love your post, they are so informative and keeps up my love of stitching.
I used to really like traditional Christmas colours like red, green and gold. However, I had a mini-christmas tree in my craft room last Christmas and I decorated it with pastel coloured baubles to match the colour scheme of the room. It looked really pretty. Very tempted do something different with our big tree this year too and go for blue, white and copper.
I am very much a traditional Christmas green and red person when it comes to the holidays 🙂 I add gold for an accent, and work on white or ivory. Very classic, and I find it uplifting when the gray days of winter get going – we live downwind of Lake Michigan, and cloudy days are the norm from October through April!
Holly
no, I wasn’t born in December but in August 🙂
My favourite colour scheme for Christmas is red and green with white and silver accents.
I have stitched with Colour Compliments, very lovely to stitch with.
Thanks for offering these fantastic threads. I love the jewel tones especially.
I’m a traditional red and green person when it comes to Christmas. To complement the red and green I add gold and silver.
I love different threads – I have threads for cross-stitch, embroidery, needlepoint, and crewel. It’s always great to increase one’s stash.
OOOooooo! beautiful threads!
My Christmas theme colors! Cranberry red and teal green!
Although there’s plenty of silver and gold around, just to brighten it up
Thanks for the chance!
Beth N in AZ
For Christmas I like red and green, but the dusty, muted versions: light sage, dusty rose, and so on. Thanks so much for this give-away!
I’m enjoying the new pastel and modern colors for Christmas. So light and fresh! Today when everyone seems to be out shopping I’m enjoying a warm drink and my stitching. Love it! -Donna
Colour, colour, colour. Love them all. My Christmas decorations tends to the traditional with ornaments made by my kids, my sisters and me over many years. For that special Christmas tree pin, I opt for white, blue and silver for a more elegant celebration of the season.
I like turquoise and silver.
I love icy blues ,turquoise and whites. They give the frosty feel and send sparkles up your spine.
I am an old fashioned girl and like red/green/gold/silver for Christmas colors.
I still love Red and Green. It just isn’t Christmas without both with a little gold thrown in.
Dark burgundy and forest green remind me of the holidays, mainly due to them being my mother’s favourite colours.
I love all the colors of the holidays, but I am especially partial to the blues and creams.
I love the colors of burgundy with green and gold. I think it looks so rich.
Traditional colours of red and green with silver. Other areas I like Victorian colours pink, blue, cream
I think it depends on my mood but I always seem to gravitate to smoky pinks, greens and purples
I’m a traditionalist Red and Green with Gold accents, but I also love my turquoise and white wreath and once I had a Christmas tree decorated in all shades of purple. I really love all colors and find myself fondling my stash of treads whenever I start a new project. This year I made heat-shaped ornaments for friends in their favorite color and a different stitching technique for each one. They will like the ornament but I’m the one who had all the fun.
Good morning Mary, still sunny in Southern California, we don’t get snow for Christmas and one season follows the other with little changes, maybe that is why I like bright colors like yellow, orange, red, lots of green, blue and the likes. I just started Embrodery a couple of years ago and I enjoyed the quiet and relaxing time I spend with my projects. Far from being a perfectionist but happy as a lark!
Oh her sampler threads #18 in deep reds and greens suit me just fine!
HI MARY,
This Christmas give-away is such a great idea – thank you! My favorite Christmas colors that I am usually drawn to are the muted reds and greens. They look vintage to me and that seems to be what I like. If colors are too bright, it’s too much. BUT – in embroidery, I am more open to bright colors on the neutral backgrounds. I also love the gold and silver tones that have been out lately – I love silver paired with blue, especially navy. I love gold tones with white.
Have a merry Christmas! – Leslie Callaway
For me, Christmas colors is the classic red, green and white for snow. I made some Christmas jewels in red.
Thank for this gift,
Nicole
I love the beautiful overdyed thread and hope I’m lucky enough to win! I have stitched many Christmas ornaments over the year and my favorites are in burgundy and gold colors.
My favourite colours for Christmas and winter are red, green, gold, silver. So much joy is associated with these colours, and fabulous thread also brings joy to stitchers!
I’m all over the board with colors for the holiday! I find myself using more blues, silvers, & gold than I have in the past when I was much more “traditional”
Will never forget one winters night when I lived in Canada and there was a blue moon glistening off the snow. My choice of colours would be blue, silver and white.
I am originally from England and do tend to love the traditional red, free and silver colours that I grew up with. But….. I have been living in Australia for the last 40 years and Christmas is full of sunshine and blue sea. For that reason I love yellow, blue, aqua and silver. Christmas is not the same to me without snow so I might as well be different in my colour choices too! Merry Christmas!
They are all beautiful!
To me, Christmas is red (666) and green with a splash of gold metallic thrown in (if applicable). I’m a traditionalist, though slowly reverting to more modern – i.e.: blues and silver or light green or turquoise and silver. I’m leaning toward lots of bling – beads galore, metallics, etc. for the mini-stockings I love to make (have more that my small tree can hold! ) but still, when I think of Christmas – it’s red and green. Goes well with the multi wreaths I have hanging around. And these threads are amazing! So many color schemes you can do… Thanks for the opportunity!
OK, you nearly got me with the burgundy and gold one, but I have to be honest, I’m an old fashioned girl, I like red and green and EVERYTHING Christmas. Love, love, LOVE Christmas! B-day is in Dec. (13th, my lucky number) and my name is Carol. 😉 Wonder if it’s in my genes! LOL. Thanks for the give-away. I’ll be hoping I am a lucky girl. 🙂
My favorite Christmas Colors are deep purples, warm golds, and dark forest greens. This color combination calms me in a hectic holiday season. I find it soothing and regal.
Red and green for me!
The featured colors are beautiful and would be lovely for the holiday season. I also like the traditional red and green, but the silver and blue theme is creeping up on me these days== I like the sparkle! Another great combination is navy and gold. Thanks for a wonderful blog–
My home is decorated throughout the Christmas holidays in red and gold. I love those colors together. My tree sparkles with the lights shining on the gold ornaments. I love it.
What are your favorite colors associated with Christmas or the winter holidays? Blue since it is my favorite color. That purple and lime looks yummy.
I am totally a blue and silver person. On the other hand, my husband loves the bright red and green!
Ann M. from Wrightstown loves the reds and greens of tradition, but the icy blues and silver make wonderful forest scenes. My mind and needle are getting the itch to start a new project but first black friday sales to add to my stash of threads, yarn, more needles and aida cloth.
My favorite Christmas colours are red, white and green. Sometimes I prefer bright Christmas red and green, sometimes I prefer burgundy and forest green, but it’s always red and green with white.
My favorite colors for Christmas are the traditional red and green.
My favorite color scheme for the holiday would have to be rich jewel tones like plum, emerald, burgundy, and gold. These rich colors really bring color to a rather gray time of year. I only say that because my heart longs for green trees and flowers when they have all fallen away. Thank you for the opportunity!
I like a true Christmas red
I am a person that likes all colors! I am also a person that likes high contrast! I wish I could buy a different color ornaments for my tree every year, but with all the hand made and sentimental ornaments I pretty much stick to red and green.
Mary, I am traditional kinda girl all the way at Christmas.. Red and green. Silver and gold. I want to try the idea you posted about…the monogram bunting sampler, that one of you followers did. It was gorgeous. Thinking a MERRY CHRISTMAS bunting could become a heirloom for my daughter.
Theresa K from La Vista NE
Burgundy, forest green and gold are my favorites.
I love all kinds of colours. When I was a kid, our Christmas tree was very colourful, with lots of gold and silver added.
Now I live in Sweden and it is mostly red and white here… most people don’t want anything else. Very strange for me 😀 But I live alone, so to be honest, nowadays I don’t decorate for Christmas at all.
For Christmas, I love to decorate in the simple shades of Green and White with a touch of gold! Though I usually put up one tree decorated all in red somewhere in the house!
Have always loved the burgundy, dark green and gold color scheme but this year I saw something new that intrigued me. A fabric line showed taupe and turquoise. They looked beautiful together. May need to try that in some new holiday projects.
Colors for Christmas? If I have to pick one group – and just one is hard – I’d go traditional; rich, dark greens with some red and gold, and just a touch of earthy dark brown for pinecones. Still learning how to create a “deep” palette of light and dark such as seen on paisley fabric.
Thank you! and Happy Holidays plus Merry Christmas!
Red and gold always have my heart!
I am a Leo born in August and love burgundy and golds not only at Christmas time but stitching all year long. I am not a pink person. I try to include burgundy shades in all my stitching, if possible.
I love the traditional Christmas reds and greens in various shades and textures of threads. I will take a chart or canvas and add my own creative style.
To finish I add a little sparkle and garnish with embellishments!
I go for a deep, dark red and hunter green.
I just love traditional Christmas red and green with a touch of silver here and there for sparkle!
I like the icy blues and silver. They remind me of sunlight glittering off a fresh field of unbroken snow.
Hi,
I tend to be traditional and prefer dark red/burgundy and gold. Thanks for the information about Colour Complements and the contest. Thanks 🙂
Mary…absolutely positively red and green! A great stitching memory that I have is when I embroidered your pattern “Joy” (with the holly leaves/berries that framed that word) as a Christmas present for my sister and her hubby. I enjoyed using the deep Christmas red for the letters and berries…and I used 3 different shades of Christmas green for the leaves. It turned out really nice and I thank you for that design!
Thank you for these giveaways! My favorite colors for Christmas are the traditional red and green with some blues and gold.
I would have said icy blues and whites, but that burgundy and green sampler is changing my mind!
Traditional colors – especially red and gold, appeal the most although it’s fun sometimes to kick up your heels and do something wild with your color scheme.
Love to be given choices and just wallow in these beautiful threads. Thank you for the opportunity.
My favorite Christmas colors range from the crispness of white, to vivid reds and golds. But the natural colors of greens, bronze and silver flow just as well. I guess I just love color
I love blues and whites for Christmas colors. They look like the winter sky and the sun shining on the sparkling snow.
Happy Day After Thanksgiving! I favor dark burgundy and gold for Christmas. To me, the burgundy is an earthy, berry color and the gold is majestic and royal.
Robin Voiers
Hot pink with white and silver for me. We had a white and silver tinsel tree when I was growing up, and I always insisted on hanging four hot pink glass drop ornaments first, and enjoying those colours before we could trim the rest of the tree!
I like the modern look of frosty blue and white.
I have always liked the tradional green, red and gold but recently I have started to lean towards blue and silver.
Christmas in my home is all about love, joy and colorful baubles. I would be most thankful to win any of your magnificent threads. As I look around my house, I realize how eclectic I am. I seem to surround myself with many colors. Color makes me happy and if I won, I would be ecstatic.
My colors are mostly white…love a green tree with all white accents. Then purple and white would be my next. Merry Christmas!
I love deep piney greens and and dark burgundies. So warm and classy! They remind me of winter nights by the fire.
I have two color schemes….the kitchen is in burgundy and hunter green to match my Lenox Winter Greetings dinnerware set. I recently made a quilt in blues and loved it but it’s not as pale as the icy blues. Browsing through the colors I think Cotton Embroidery Floss #14 would match that quilt.
We decorate primarily with traditional red and green but I always have some yellows, (my fav) and some gold and silver. For me Christmas is about traditions so our decorations are a collection of bits and baubles from past years but we add some new things every year as our family grows.
I’d like to add a big thank you for featuring this great B.C. needlework shop. Its difficult to find Canadian sources for any needlework or craft and online ordering with currency exchanges and shipping often more than doubles the costs!
I like white and gold the best…..thinking all the way back to those years when white trees were so very popular in all the homes. I still like them!
I love absolutely all colors, but shade is important. I’m not a fan of the “elf green/fire engine red” combo, but I love dark cherry reds with forest greens. Or pale blue, white, and brown because it makes me think of looking out into a winter forest and seeing a fawn and fallen logs. I also love crazy Christmas colors when they do traditional images like Santa hats, holly, and candy canes in fushia, orange, and mauve. I like gold and silver, but not together and usually with white and cream. I’m fond of the manger scene colors of brown, cream, yellow, and green. Dark, dark browns mixed with lighter cinnamon and chocolate to remind me of gingerbread cookies and hot chocolate. Plum and cranberry because those colors are wonderful and they’re fall colors so they can stick around for winter.
But…yes. My favorite winter combo is pale blues, whites and creams, and light brown. With a couple of greens mixed in.
Not that I see any of those colors here in Florida.
Happy Thanksgiving from Canada. My preferred Christmas colours are the traditional red and green. I find the other colour combinations just don’t evoke the Christmas spirit in me.
My very favorite Christmas colors are deep red and forest green with a touch of sparkly gold. I also love blue, white and silver but don’t decorate in those colors.
Christmas to me has always meant deep, rich red and pine-forest green, exactly DMC 498 and 500. We never had a specific color theme for our tree decorations; they were a rainbow riot of heirlooms and curios, but the overall impression was always of those two shades.
It’s funny, I always go for silver at every other time of year, but at Christmas I love the traditional Victorian-ish combo of dark reds, greens and gold. Lots of texture too – sparkle, velvet, and so on.
ps- nice to see a fellow Canadian’s thread featured! 🙂
I love blue and silver for Christmas but found it too cool feeling so added a lot of magenta-pink in with them. The threads shown have lots of the pinks and burgundies I gravitate to….just lovely, and the greens are a great contrast.
Elaine R
I’m definitely a traditional Christmas colors…red,green and golds in every shade.
Christmas for me is most definitely red and green……with just a little gold.
Its hard to pick out the colours I like but I really like the Icy Blues and silver for Christmas colours I think its like being outside in the snow and ice Skating on a outside rink Love it. I have some of Lorraines threads in my stash I love her threads, Her colours are to die for. And her threads are nice to work with. Love them. Thanks for the opportunity to win some of her lovely threads.
For my Christmas embroidery projects I like sparkly, icy whites mixed with blues amid brown for the trees and red for the Christmas cardinal that adds a touch of Christmas-y color.
These threads are such beautiful overdyes! I have just started using overdyes after soo many years of doing stitchery and love them. They add so much dimentsion to the piece. I started doing stitchery at a young age in St. Johns, Quebec and we didn’t have such lovely options in threads.
Jane Slyker now in Helena, Montana
I’m traditional, red and green, and gold if possible 🙂
Ah, visions of Dusty Rose and Metallic Gold dance in my head for Christmas. I love the combination on one of my Christmas trees. I have 5 every year. This one has angels and harps. Another tree is a Kwanzaa tree with their traditional ornaments. Of course all my ornaments on each tree are handmade! Another tree is done in red, green and white ornaments, lights and tinsel. Another is my vintage ornaments received as gifts through the years and last, but never the least is my Christian tree of Christian ornaments remembering the birth of Jesus and always the reason for this season!
Christmas color schemes… OK, I confess — I don’t have a preference! Probably the traditional red and green simply because it’s so “Christmas-y” and all so pervasive. My Christmas tree has no color theme, except it’s filled with ornaments that appeal to me or have meaning to me. Christmas is a jumble of colors!
I am a red and green person with abit of sparkle.
I’m a huge polar bear fan. I put up my green tree with shiny white and light blue ornaments and icicles. Therefore, I concur: I like sparkly white and light blue!
I love blue and silver colors with a little red mixed in for the holidays. Blue is my favorite color all year round, but I love the shades of blue offered at holiday time.
I like taupe, cream and silver this year for Christmas
I am a dark burgundy and gold person. Imdo like the pink and green combo of threads for the giveaway.
Christmas colors I enjoy are from the old-fashioned rich Victorian
pallette; deep blue-greens, burgundy and creams with sparkling golds thrown in. Think
William Morris, Arts and Crafts or
Art Nouveau Periods.
Oh my goodness! I love contemporary, muted, and unique color themes. The thread colors are so rich looking.
I like all Christmas colors. When I think about Christmas, I picture the bright red and green but just made stockings using the darker burgundy and forest green. And I love the blues, silver and whites for the snow scenes
Sally Kemp
I just love Green Burgandy and Gold
I love threads
I love threads! The Color Complements collection is wonderful. I would love to work with some of these threads. I love the blue and silver Christmas colors, but I work in many color combos. Your blog is the highlight of my days. You have given us all so many great ideas, patterns, etc. Thank you. Ganet
I find I like more contemporary color schemes for Christmas time… Instead of red, I might choose a pink or plum…instead of green, I might go with an aqua or teal. I like using more quirky colors with the traditional. 🙂 For sparkle, I used to be just about silver accents…but over the years I have come to appreciate gold too. Thanks for the great giveaway! Looking at all the colors/threads in the shop is so much fun…so many pretty choices!
The burgundy and green are lovely, but I prefer the mixed up blend. You have more of every color. I do a lot of crazy quilting and any other embroidery that catches my eye. I love your daily e-mail, it is a wonderful way to start the day. Happy holidays to you.
As for me, winter (no matter if it’s holidays or not) is blue and silver. And as the country I live in is rather cold, even ever-green trees turn to grey and white in the snow. But the sky is so perfectly blue and shiny, that all the colors play like a rainbow
I love all colors of Christmas. Mostly the deep red and forest green.
Thank you so much for all you do to help guide me in my embroidery. ❤️
To me, gold and silver shining on trees and at church mean Christmas. I love all the colors of the season, but gold and silver garlands, stars, and shiny balls remind me of laying on the floor under the tree and seeing all the lights reflected in the ornaments.
When I think of Christmas, I think of red and green, but my favorite are blue and silver.
Hi Mary! Hope you are doing well and had a blessed Thanksgiving …. As to Christmas color schemes, I vacillate between white , silver, and blue snowflake theme and other years the red, green and gold theme. Thank you for the chance to win. I would use them on my CQJP2017 project. Good luck to all! Merry Christmas! Thanks, Marianne in NJ
Your threads are beautiful, and I hoping to win the burgundy/green threads:) Happy Holidays!
I would love to win the silk perle #12. It would be a perfect accent to a piece I need to finish. For Christmas colors, I guess I’m a traditionalist – your basic red, green and gold. But there’s no bad color. Many of my tree ornaments are family heirlooms, ranging from orange to purple. It’s about the joy.
I love your daily blog and have learned a lot from it.
As for Christmas colors, I like to vary it year to year. Sometimes I feel traditional and sometimes I feel silvery or contemporary. This year I’m thinking a simple traditional would be good.
My favorite Christmas colors are pink and lime green and blue and silver. The old red and green colors are too Victorian for me.
By the way, I’m in love with the Very Velvet threads! Beautiful!
I love all the Christmas colors! I don’t see any reason to stick with just one color
scheme, so we have a mish-mash of everything. The kitchen has a gingerbread theme
so lots of red and white and candy colors. The Christmas tree has a mixture of kid-made
ornaments, stitched items, wedding and baby shower favors (I’ll turn ANYTHING into a
tree ornament!) and store-bought items. I have some folk-art items too that are more
muddy colors. Sounds chaotic but it all works!
I’ve always been drawn to pink/green but recently I purchased Hazel Blomkamp’s Hand Stitched Crazy Patchwork and now I want to try MANY color combinations. This old gal is ready to branch out after seeing the beautiful purple/green combo. As always, thanks Mary for the continuing inspiration.
My Christmas decorations are all burgundy and gold, strangely enough, so is my living room decor!
My favorite colors for Christmas are definitely green and red! One of my daughters wants me to use silver this year on the tree so I bought a lot of on sale items at the end of last season. I guess it will be red and silver this year 🙂
Wow, I’d love to win the thread sampler and think the burgundy/green combo is perfect. However, for the winter holidays, I have to go with icy blue and silver! It’s icy cold here for a long time.
My favorite Christmas colors are deep red and dark green–you know, the green of an old pine tree. Add some flecks of gold in there for some sparkle and there’s a winning combo!
My favorite Christmas colors are dark burgundy, white, silver/ gold and a deep rich green.
Icy white and silver. It is so hot here in South Texas (almost year round), that I dream of the snow and ice that was winter when I lived in St. Louis.
Living in the frozen north, I think of icy colors for the holidays. I picture a cranberry with frost all along its sides and blues and greens that cover frozen waterways. I like the way weather changes a color’s essence.
Oh, definitely dark blue and silver! It reminds me of the Queen of Night, from Die Zauberflöte (my favourite music while stitching)
Must admit never thought about favourite colours for Christmas but burgundy and gold sounds good
X Beryl (Yorkshire)
I am old fashioned and still love the bright red and grass green all though the bright yellow green is working its way up.
I love burgundy and hunter green for Christmas. I find them to be very elegant and classy when used.
I like and have made a wall hanging with the pink and pale green for Christmas but, unfortunately, I find people still go for the red and green Christmas colors. Burgundy and gold is very festive and catches the eye
Mary Mazman
Salem Massachusetts
Christmas is my favorite time of year and the traditional red and green are my Christmas colors with a touch or silver or gold thrown in for the bling. I love decorating my home for Christmas and my husband always wonders where all those decorations reside the rest of the year.
Vera from WV
ThanK you for the giveaway.
I love cardinal red and silver. It’s my favorite.
Vicky K
My very favorite colors for Christmas are Blue, White and Gold. My father loves Blue and we had a blue Christmas tree every year. The tree was sometime sprayed with a bit of white on the branches. And all the lights and ornament were different shades of blue. Just thinking about it brings joy.
My favorite Xmas colors are the classic green and red and I also love to add a touch of silver or gold. 🙂
Thank you Mary for everything you do for all of us who like embroidery!
Burgundy and green is my favorite color combo all year, so the room I rent has accents of those colors. Traditional bright Christmas red, while festive and fun, just looks a bit “off” in my room. I do like to decorate my little room for Christmas, but always with burgundy, not red. And my daughter has the same taste, so the burgundy-and-green thread has gift-giving potential!!
The burgundy and green threads are absolutely beautiful. I would love to win them.
I love all the colors of Christmas, but having to choose one?! I’d have to say soft, pastel glisseny colors❣️
I love green, gold and silver. I like how they make me feel festive. Green is my favorite color. So, to make it have more of a Holiday feel adding the gold and silver works for me.
Hi, Mary,
What a fun idea! I love Colour Compliments! It’s the candy store of thread! I want it all!
Today the sweet that’s grabbing my attention is the #10 Sampler Threads set. All the wonderful shades of gold and that lovely Kreinik braid reminds me of my mom and how as far as she was concerned Christmas wasn’t Christmas unless it was shiny and sparkly. She would have loved it!
Shelley
I always change my mind, but then I usually go for vibrant red and green with a brilliant white accent.
I’m very much a traditionalist so I go for the red and green, but I also love to add some gold because you always need some sparkle!
Here in South America, Christmas is in summer,so i will embroider a bunch of pineapples with gold and green, a few ice lloly and a Merry Christmas phrase in cross stitch in red and other colors that i have not decided yet.
Hi Mary, thanks for this chance to get some stash, my favorite Christmas colours are blue , white and silver!
My favorite Christmas colors are silver, white and blue. Of course, there’s always room for a touch of the traditional red (burgundy tones) and green (deep, dark pine greens), for contrast! Just a touch!
I like bright red and green for Christmas, and love to add gold threads for extra sparkle. Sometimes, when working on an antique-looking fabric I like a darker burgundy and hunter green combination, with matte gold thread accents. In both cases, I also like adding a few beads to reflect light and add a little dimension.
Like so many things I do, picking a single color combination for Christmas doesn’t happen. I probably have the most of the tradition red and green, but also some decorations in blues and golds, and even pink and green. Gives me lots of options for holiday decorating! And liking more colors, means more collecting.
Hi Mary – I love the traditional green, red, white colors of Christmas, in fact, they are one of my favorite color combinations all year round. That said, I love ALL colors, and when starting a project, sometimes I have a hard time choosing the color scheme. There are so many beautiful fibers out there, so different from when I started stitching in the 70s!
I love golds and whites for Christmas projects.
Since having children my Christmas is decidedly non colour coordinated. I love the eclectic nature of the tree, completely covered in home made decorations, to most people it would just look a mess, but to me it’s priceless!
I like a variation on the traditional, cranberry red and forest green with lots of gold accents.
First of all, I’ve ordered threads from Colour Compliments and have loved every one. My favorite Christmas colors…now that’s hard. I love all the traditional colors, but I’m a fifties era kinda gal, so my most favorites would be pale turquoise and light pink with some added bling.
My favorite Christmas colors are red and green, including all their variations. Silver and gold add the extra sparkle.
The color I love best is the deep blue of outdoor lights against snow in the dusk, impossible for me to reproduce in needle work until they make thread with LEDs spun into it. As far as actual textile colors, I like violet contrasted with green.
You can totally sew LEDs into your work!
I’m not sure how to choose my favorite colors…red, white & green are naturals, of course. But then again pale blues and white make a great combination. And I can’t leave out pinks and light greens either! Bottom line? I’m happy with them all! Whatever the color choice, I like old fashioned themes and decorations, lots of them, nothing sparse! Kind of like an English garden set in wintertime and brought indoors. Merry Christmas to one and all.
I like red and green with accents of gold for Christmas. I guess I’m a traditional type of person. I would love to win some of Lorraine’s thread. I love her thread. She has a real eye for color combinations.
I associate the holidays with smells more than colors…
But I love all the multicolored lights against the backdrop of night!
Putting up my vintage aluminum silver trees, I typically decorate with bright blues, greens, pinks. It makes me so happy!
I always read your emails FIRST. I love handwork and am inspired by you and your works.
Thanks for all you do.
My favorite winter decorating colors – dark green with pale blue or pink. But sometimes plaids. I really just like winter holidays
Christmas to me is a great time to remember those who have passed away. In memory of my brother who was an alter boy, I decorated the Christmas tree in purple. Another year it was in memory of my Grandma done in her favorite color of blue. So I am open to every color scheme!
Ah, you know the way to a stitcher’s heart….lol…i have used this thread and it is quite lovely to work with! More would be fine….vbg….and thanks so much for your stitching enthusiam and above all, your energy!!!
My favorite christmas colors, very dark green and a bright orange/red///// Dark red and lime green/gold/green/red…and blue and white, with silver…..
you can see i never run out of color options!!!!!
I love the dark woody browns and moody Greens this year. I think I miss my old home the Pacific Northwest!
That pink and green selection is just gorgeous, Mary. My preferred winter colours are white, silver and turquoise….sparkly with a touch of blue chill!
Alison
Godalming, UK
I recently retired and have really increased my “crafting.” I am on an ornament kick right now – and am very please with purple/white and teal/white combinations for the needlepoint rounds and diamonds. I look forward to expanding my skills and will try some of your embroidery tips and tutorials. I enjoy reading your blog.
Enjoy the holidays.
JB
I like pinks and light greens, but also burgundy and bright green. I’m a big pink fan. A Christmas tree with all pink ornaments would please me greatly.
What gorgeous thread! The offering to me looks like Christmas lolly canes. I am using a greater variety of threads after following Needlenthread blog, and think this giveaway would not be long in the sewing box. The added sparkle is divine.
Blues with white and ANY color with sparkles are my favorite!
Pink and green are my favorite Christmas colors❣️
Linda Given
I used to really like bright red and green as my favorite Christmas colors, but since I’ve aged, I really find bright blue and silver or shiny white to be more stunning.
Colors! Over the years I’ve been doing the Christmas stockings of Shepard’s Bush. The plump santa’s, the little angels and girls in colors that run the gamete. They all work and the holidays don’t seem to mind that they aren’t the expected reds and greens. It opened my mind to the wealth of possibilities.
Oh what lovely thread. My favourite colours for the season are Raspberry and Mint – I love the crispness of them and they remind me of sweet things!!! Thanks for the opportunity of a giveaway.
Dearest Mary,
Thank you once again for sponsoring this giveaway! My favorite colors of Christmas are the deep evergreen of a pine tree and the full, rich red which symbolizes the blood shed for me, of Jesus, the person whose birthday we celebrate on Christmas.
Have a Merry Christmas, and thank you for doing Needle and Thread!
What a hard question to answer. I do like the traditional red and green, but do like other Christmas color combinations. They may all be in my house at the same time. I’ve got a lot, since I have been collecting decorations since 1972. The one I don’t care for is the pink and silver or white. My aunt had one of those artificial silver trees in the 60s with the white floss and pink balls. Did not like it at all.
Green, green, green ! With some bling, gold or silver.
I love Christmas Red, everything else flows from there. Also, I love antique ornaments and the vintage colors.
My Christmas colors have developed over time and as I have aged and as I have inherited family Christmas things.
I put my Santa collection in my bedroom with all my multicolored quilts. My aunt’s pink collection goes in my living room which has a lot of muted blues, pinks and greens. I really like Christmas red with a light green – something a little different.
All of the embroidery threads of Color Complements are great. I love to make crazy quilt and collage type jackets and vests, so any colors would work for me. I probably lean toward neutrals that can go with anything.
Thanks for the give-aways and I hope you have a wonderful Christmas season!
I love the traditional red and green colors with red and green plaid accents. All winter colors are beautiful for Christmas but I’m a traditional girl. Wishing everyone a wonderful Christmas and have fun with your needle and thread.
I love a nature themed Christmas. This year I am going with white, cream, beige, silver and copper. Adding in straw raccoons, deer, owls, squirrels and other animals hanging on white barked alder branches collected on our property, wrapped in small white lights. I have also added glass ornaments shaped like acorns and pine cones. I have wooden bowls filled with homemade potpourri, collected pine cones and acorns. I use essential oil blends to get that Holiday smell throughout the house. The final layer is music, usually Celtic. I almost forgot the candles – in whites, pale yellow and amber for a touch of depth! Viola! Bliss!
Christmas colors? As much as I like traditional red and green ( dark red and deep green please), I tend to reach for jewel tones and gold. Those colors make me think of stained glass windows, richness, saturation.
I have never been a pastel lover, I’m sure they have a roll to play, but not in my collection.
I’m a fan of the blue/silver or blue/gold combinations. Don’t get me wrong – I also like the traditional red/green combination, but blue is my favorite color year round.
Mary
I love the traditional reds and greens. I also love blues with silver.
Definitely a dark burgundy and gold kind of girl
I so love the burgundy and greens for Christmas.
I love thread too. I used to love bright colors a lot, recently I do more darker, paler, and colder colors. I also like to surprise myself with color combinations that I don’t think I would go for. Thank you and Thread Compliments for the give-away. And now, cross my fingers 🙂 – Mai Phuong from Hanoi
What luscious fibers! I am a bright red, green, and silver person for the holidays with a touch of gold and deeper hues thrown in.
Any shade of green, pink or rose can never be wrong. Green and burgundy are the best for a classy, beautiful Christmas. Add gold, preferably, or silver . . . you can’t go wrong.
What fun! Although I normally gravitate to pastel colors or fall hues in my regular stitching That is not what I want for Christmas I want bright, rich colors…red and green the traditional hues are what makes my holiday bright. Looking forward to reading the comments of others.
Sherry (in Missouri).
Mary West Midlands. I love icy white and blue. It looks so clean and sparkly. I love the way silk threads in these colours shimmer. And best of all if they make you shiver you can curl up in front of the fire with a nice glass of wine. A bit late but Happy Holidays
Purple and gold is awesome, but anything with many colors makes me happy. The only combination i don’t care for too much is dark green and red – makes me think of bridge clubs and being forced to wear dress and Behave At Grandmother’s House…
What a wonderful giveaway with such gorgeous threads. As yet we can´t buy overdyed threads where I live but we can get the new DMC Coloris threads which I am buying bit by bit. I do love a pale pink and green combination and a darker green and red around Christmas.
I’m not sure what my favorite color theme for Christmas is. It depends on the room & my mood. Guess I tend to go with white & gold for our tree & traditional green & red for outside wreaths. Mary, thanks for this wonderful giveaway. These threads are stunning!
Thank you for the giveaway! My Christmas tree is decorated in red, white and gold. Funny thing is, I really like more earthy colors for my normal decor, but the tree with white lights and red ornaments is lovely at night. Happy Holidays, Mary!
i LOVE LIME GREEN AND BURGUNDY FOR CHRISTMAS COLORS
Oh, happy day! What a beautiful giveaway.
The colors I always gravitate to for Christmas are burgundy, lime & forest green, tan (now that I see that written it sound ugly but it isn’t) but sometimes I like to do bright red & white with Scandinavian designs.
COLOR COLOR COLOR, what can be so much fun and fun to work with. I have a good selection now but love the colors of the give away. I can always use more thread though ! I like to mix up thread colors and thread choices. It never gets boring. Creativity is my passion and I love to experiment. These colors are just stunning.
I am definitely a contemporary color artist for the holidays. Give me lime green, turquoise, and red !
I’m a traditionalist. I like rich reds and greens as Christmas colours. For non-Christmas, wintery colours, blues and silvers.
I guess I am a traditionalist!!!! I love the reds and greens with a touch of gold!!!! However, I am starting to really like those retro Christmas colors you see with the red, green, pink, and turquoise. Kind of muted.
The two colors that are special for me at Christmas are white and red.
20 years ago I decided to actually decorate my tree and this is what I came up with:
Clear lights
Glass or crystal twisted icicles in three sizes
Double twisted white freshwater pearl (synthetic) garlands
Bright red apples in three sizes
This simple color scheme and decor reminds me of the true simplicity of this season of joy and beauty. I’ve never wanted to change or add anything more.
I have plenty of other bright colors as part of my decor, but year after year, my red & white tree speaks of the message that is dearest.
Nancy White (nawbird)
I love dark greens and dark reds as a base, but after that I like any colour under the sun as colour brightens up the dark grey months of winter.
I love all the Christmas colors–contemporary, traditional, I can never make up my mind about a favorite!
I love bright Christmas red and green. I buy them in every thread weight and brand I can find. I just bought two gorgeous sets of overdyed threads in the perfect Christmas colors at the International Quilt show in Houston.
I like almost any combination of reds and greens–including the beautiful bright green and burgundy in this give away. Thank you Colour Complements!
Initially, I would have said greens and reds would be my ‘favourite’ colour schemes…..but as I sat here thinking about it, I don’t think I have a favourite. It’s all what catches my eye …Christmas sparkles are necessary though. 🙂
I prefer muted nature inspired colors: sage green, burgundy, tan and brown. With a little sparkly gold thrown in!
Ah, my favorite Christmas colors? Silver, gold and white. After spending the first 54 years of my life in Salt Lake City, Utah, moved to NE Oklahoma, where I’ve spent the last 3 winters yearning for snow. I loved watching the way the first beams of sunshine would turn the lawns and fields from plain flat white to dazzling silver, with a billion gold lights dancing off of the trees and shrubs. Not to mention the pinks and corals reflecting off of the clouds and painting everything they touch in fairy colors. Oh, but that only lasts a moment, until the sun clears the mountains and turns everything in it’s reach to a silvery golden blue. Not that the 640 shades of brown you get here in the fall aren’t nice too. If you like brown. Thanks for the opportunity to win some new threads. I can always pretend it’s spring. Happy holidays. I think maybe I’ll just head on home. In my dreams.
My favourite colours..well, gold with reds and greens, or blue and gold, of blue and silver, or purple and green or purple an gold….I cannot choose, it depends on the time of the year, my mood. I really love them all.
I love thread, I covet thread, I collect thread. Pinning down my favorite colors for xmas is tough. I do love blue and white, Dark violets and blues with metallic silver or gold, dark reds with silver or gold. The metallics add the festive look.
Gold and burgundy are my choices – they seem to give the depth to the season that’s needed
Christine Owen
Hi. Lately I prefer working with the non-standard Christmas colors of pinks and greens. For years I was a traditional deep red and green stitcher but then the softened colors appealed to me more. But the reality is that I love all colors! I love seeing all the variations in overdyed threads. Your column introduces me to all kinds of threads and I really enjoy seeing them!
Linda brick
Those colors are beautiful, I can think of many ways and stitches to create. I am a crazy patcher, I love texture it stimulates the eyes. Those colors remind me of autumn in the back country.
I am a dark burgundy and gold person for Christmas! All other times I am a yellow and blue person. I love all color of thread and fabric. Sometimes just looking at my materials brings as much joy as the finished art work.
I’m a traditional lady, red green and gold for me, the brighter the better. Navy and white/silver does look very classy though and I’ve never tried burgundy and gold but I feel a diversion from my usual colours coming along quickly.
Christmas colors… This year I think I am still influenced by “Frozen ” and my favorite colors reflect that: blue and sparkly white, but mostly Anna’s colors: Burgandy, turquoise, dark green, dark pink.
What are your favorite colors associated with Christmas or the winter holidays?
I like snowflakes and winter scenes so blues, white and silver fits the bill for me.
I love the subtle shimmer of pearly pastels. In South Africa Christmas is during the summer so the coolness of the colour scheme is like ice cream on a hot day.
My favorite colors for christmas are defently green and red. They make me smile a lot. But I love the sparkles of the lights on the tree. I think that sparkle gives me hope for the next year coming!
Since our Christmas is in the middle of summer and the pohutukawa are flower – greyish greens, dark reds and a hint of gold.
I love burgundy, but I am not that keen on gold, so I usually pair it with black. But for a festive feel, I would pick dark, midnight blue with silver. Byt probably no more than two to four colours in total, I prefer simplicity.
I absolutely love natural earth tones (pine cones, rusty tins, red berries, greenery, brown paper wrapping tied with jute) for Christmas. Topping the look off with splashes of white.
I like the traditional holiday colors but I also like to use the wintery icy blues and christmas whites.
Happy Stitching and Happy Holidays
Hi Mary, The sample burgundy and greens are exactly my choice. Beautiful!! Thanks for this great chance.
Oh my look at all that beautiful thread!! Thank you for the giveaway, I hope your Thanksgiving was tasty!
What are your favorite colors associated with Christmas or the winter holidays? I love the icy blue and white. 🙂
Dark green and silver.
I like burlap with bright, bright red and some hints of gold for Xmas!
Imagine, such beautiful work being done here in B.C.! This is the first I have heard of Colour Complements. Thank you Mary.
As far as Christmas favorite colors go I am a traditionalist in the true sense of the word. My house is always in Christmas red and green, which gives me a feeling of Christmas and makes me very happy. I do love many other colors but always migrate back to red and green for the holidays.
I think that my choices of colors from the Colour Complements Shop shows my traditional side also. The colors I would choose are #175, 186, 7, 134, 137 and 129. They are gorgeous and I will bookmark her Etsy page for future reference! Thank you, Mary, for these giveaways. It’s always fun to dream, right? 🙂
Christmas is my favorite holiday. I love the family and the traditions. To pick a favorite color is hard. I am not the traditional red person but I do love some red and green and all the winter colors like the blues and whites and silver – (snowmen and night pictures of snowy churches). I do a little of everything, I guess.
Michelle H. in TN
While I appreciate all colors of Christmas, my favorites lean toward the Victorian. I love purple (relates to spiritual), pinks, and silver when decorating my tree and my home. However, I am noticing that when I buy fabrics for my quilting stash, I am choosing golds, both metallic and matte, and reds and also teals and silver metallics and matte. My needlework fibers and projects are varied as well. I work in the reds and greens and golds for gift giving to my friends and their decor. I love ALL the colors of Christmas! Thank you, Mary, for all you give to the needlework world! You are my go-to person when I get stuck. You have taught me so much!! I am grateful for you.
Imagine, such beautiful work being done here in B.C.! This is the first I have heard of Colour Complements. I love blues and silvers at Christmas. Thank you Mary.
I like the traditional green and red with white added to give a feeling of winter.
I love burgundy and dark green for Christmas. The burgundy and green threads are beautiful! – Linda Mincher
Seeing burgundy paired with forest green and gold always puts me in the holiday spirit!
N. Worden
I love to use silver, white and blue for holiday colors.
My favorite Christmas colors are white, burgandy, forest green, and a touch of gold. Silver and pale green with cranberry red is a very close second.
My favorite colors of the season are bright green and red. I love the traditional Christmas I remember from my childhood… Multi colored lights on the tree, no real theme in the ornaments, just trinkets collected over the years, each one holding its own memory.
Love your site. I read it everyday. I have learned so much. Wish I new about you when I started embroidery.
I guess I am a traditionalist ~ Deep red and green with a little sparkle thrown in. But then Burgundy and gold or Blue and Silver are pretty too.
Thank you and Colour Compliments for this colorful gift. My chances are slim with so many comments – but someone has to win, maybe I will be the lucky one, right….
And now I need to take a little journey over to Etsy !
Happy Winter Holidays to all ( or may it be your Summer)
I like blue and silver however red and green are my fallback colors.
I am a red, green, and gold traditional gal. However, I must also admit a soft spot for cool snowmen in pale pink, blues, and silvers. I enjoy your articles and thank you for sharing them. They are chock full of goodness!
I’m very traditional, so for me it’s red & green all the way, with silver thrown in for sparkle and a hint of winter!
I love love love all the muted color ways of threads! They just remind me of all the old samplers that I see. The historical samplers make me feel like a part of history too!
I love blue and silver here in New Zealand where we have summer Christmas blue and silver give a touch of winter.
I am a misplaced Alberta currently living in London, UK. So, while my typical Christmas colour choices would be burgundy and gold, or deep blue and silver, this year it must be sky blue and snow white! While I have been very lucky and we have had many days of decent weather here, I am certainly missing the blue skies, brilliant sunshine and crystal snow of Alberta! To obtain hand dyed threads from home sounds divine!
I love dark reds and greens for christmas. Add a little gold for an accent and I’m over the moon for it. Those colors make me feel like I’m in a Dickensian Christmas wonderland!
I have come to like the blue and silver theme, though goodness knows in NZ we do not get snow or ice at Christmas. At leasr not where I live. Thanks for the giveaway
I love the traditional red and green colors! I also love gold and silver!
Hi Mary! My Christmas colors seem to be red/plum and gold….that’s what I have collected over 40 years, and it is apparent that those must be the colors I prefer! But I also admire in other’s holiday displays, colors ranging from white and silver, cobalt blue and silver, bright red and forest green, purple and lilac, and MORE! I simply love color! Hope I get a change to work with the beautiful colored threads you are giving away! Thanks for everything Mary! You are really the best!
I love all Christmasy colors but particularky purples and greens.
I love all colors at Christmas! I am particularly fond of blue and silver or a vibrant purple with silver. I love the Reds of poinsettias and the greens of holly, the dark forest greens of Monterey Pines, red and silver ornaments…I simple love color!
Thank you so very much for your informative and inspiring blog and the awesome tutorials on your website.
Merry Christmas…I love greens and reds! The burgundy/green set would be beautiful should I win
Thanks for this opportunity
My favorite is Christmas red and lime green
As for me, I love silver, blue, and white!
Merry Christmas Mary!
All my best,
Catrina Byrge
Thank you Mary for this great giveaway. You always introduce me to something I may not have tried! I am not a “red” person, so icy blues and white/silver or forest green and gold are my favorite winter colors. Always have to have a little metallic for holiday cheer!
I go for blue and white or blue and silver.
I’ve done traditional red and green or blue and silver. I have lived in a house full of boys. They are grown now and I find myself leaning toward purple and pink. It’s time for a girly tree!
What beautiful floss this is! My winter favorite colors are blue and silver and icy blue and white. These colors are so soft and alive – just like a morning when we wake up to a new blanket of snow on the ground. – Ruby Scruggs
Choose just one favoutite? Can’t do it. I have so many favourites that We have several tabletop trees to display them. Last year’s big tree was red, white and gold. This year it is traditional multicolour. The guest room tabletop tree is purple, burgundy, and gold. My studio tree is chocolate, copper and gold. The one on the hall table features lime green and the one in the study features hand made wood ornaments with traditional Christmas colours. But if I win, I’ll make a choice.
I am really excited to see a hand dyed embroidery thread business based out of BC, Canada, as I live in BC and I like to support other local BC businesses.
I very much like the selection of colors in the Color Complements group as I am a person who is drawn to bright colors of any kind. All of my wool felt applique projects are made with bright colors and then embroidered with coordinate brightly colored perle cotton.
I like traditional Christmas red and green for holiday colors.
Linda Mc from Erie, PA
I love blue and silver at Christmas! Those colors are like icicles glistening in the dark on a cold snowy night. Those colors would also look great stitched on an opalescent fabric! Merry Christmas!
I love the look of jewel tones for Christmas.
Jami Stevenson
I love all of your different threads! The colors are fabulous!!
I like traditional red and green but I also like the silver and blue for January and February after Christmas is technically over.
Love burgandy for Christmas, gives things a little older look. .
I love bright green and red, but I’m gradually turning my attention to iceblue, soft grey, white and silver. Thank you for the service you provide through your website. Thank you so much.
Wonderful threads, I have seen them in person and they are even better looking. Thank you for offering this great item. Good luck to all. Kathy22eggs
Forgot to say that Burgandy and green are my to go for Christmas colors.
I am drawn to any shade of green, but celebratory red / gold / silver / blue / white speak to me of the festive season.
Though it’s not very traditional, icy blues, silvers, and white are my favorite Christmas combination. They just look so elegant and wintery together!
I am a pink, purple and pale green person. Several Christmas’s ago I did everything in purple, different shades, and a darkish green, with silver trim. It was beautiful and I had many compliments on it. This year I am going to the pink side, with butterfly trim. The butterflies will be different colors, some realistic some fancyful. I live in the southwest, so have done several years when I stuck to desert or moutain motifies. I used yucca, stacks and pods, tumble weeds, and other cacti. Dream catchers were used to trim the ” tree”. They were different and most people liked them. Kind of a mess to clean up tho.
I ;ove the Sample size 5 perle #7 the colors are just what I have been looking for. Thanks for the opportunaty for the give away.
Hi Mary,
Thank you for organising a Christmas give away this year. I like blue and silver as a Christmas colour combination. I live in a hot climate and anything that lends a perception of coolness is welcome at this time of year.
I like all the rich colours for Xmas and theme accordingly bit you can’t go past red green and gold
Love the traditional red, green and gold. But also tempted by the country colours of Christmas.
Burgundy and Gold. Merry Christmas!
I would love to add a sample of these threads to my stash for using with some designs of my own.
Are you a pink / pale green person? Not necessarily, they are spring colors and while I love Spring, Fall is my favorite time of the year.
A dark burgundy and gold person? The colors of Fall are my favorites so the burgundy and gold come close to those
A blue and silver person? Not really but they come close to the blue and white of Deerfield style of crewel embroidery that is a favorite of mine
A bright Christmas red and green person? At the appropriate time of the year these are great.
Do you go for contemporary color themes? Not really
Muted color themes? These have their place for recreating antiques although the original colors would have been bright.
Do you like icy blues and whites? Only on rare occasions
Or do you eschew common color schemes and go for something totally unique? Spill your guts about color! I’m curious!
Some of the modern color schemes set my teeth on edge. I guess I am a traditionalist and prefer the Early American themes that bring the colors of nature into needlework. Other than that, white work holds a fascination for me.
I love the blue’s and whites. My spouse loves the traditional colors. Every once in while he lets me do the tree in blue lights. I really don’t mind the traditional colors but it’s nice to have blue every once in a while. I remember 16 years ago I was a few months pregnant with my last child. I was 40 at the time and I was totally exhausted that year. We put blue lights on the tree and our first ever ornament on the tree. Yes, just one ornament. I sat and watched the world fly by in the evenings in the dark with the blue sparkling lights and the little baby Jesus ornament on our tree. Thinking about all the mommies in the world and how wonderful it was to have a life growing inside me. I have been blessed in my life. It is nice to remember this memory. I hope you enjoy the thoughts and memories that people share with you. You are a wonderful woman that make the world a nicer place to be in. Thank you for sharing your talents and trade! Peace and Love to you this Holy Season!
I love dark green, burgundy, gold and cream for christmas colours.
I love them all. I guess if I have to narrow it down I would choose the red and green of the holly bush with a touch of white for snow. But how can I choose just one set of colors. I love the soft blues with silver or the bold bright colors of wrapped packages.
CeCe B.
I tend to go to the muted, primitive colors when making gifts for friends and family. I personally use victorian pinks, greens and burgundy for myself. Thanks for all your instructions and interesting news letters.
Linda Adams
I have always enjoyed decorating with shades of burgundy and gold.Many thanks for the giveaway.
I’m definitely a blue and silver person. Maybe it is because I miss the snowy winters. Sylvia
My favorite Christmas colors are the traditional red and green. I call them Christmas red and green.
What beautiful threads and colours!
I love a muted colour palette and I don’t feel restricted to traditional Christmas colours. I love variegated colour schemes using pale colours with lots of changes in textures and thread weights. This strategy works particularly well for stumpwork and the traditional Italian Casilguidi work.
Thank you for the opportunity.
I’m definately a blue and silver person, I have used some brilliant reds and golds in the paste, but my hand always strays to all shades of blues and silver. I always admire folks that can go of piste as it were, but I’ve never been comfortable with doing that maybe it’s a confidence thing. I don’t know. I love receiving your emails and I’m in awe of the many talented embroiderers there are in the world.
I like the colors silver and gold and green for my Christmas colors but then again i like ice/blue and silver.
My favorite color schemes for Christmas change just about every year. This year, I’m loving champagnes and bronzes. But when I open “the Christmas box,” anyone could easily assume I love the traditional red/green/multi-color scheme, too, because I do. And then I move on to frosty blues for the New Year. LOVE the holidays!
I love the silver blue combo, am fond of red and green, but am drawn to the burgundy that is so popular this year. However, since I cannot afford to change every year, I try to buy the newest trend after Christmas to be used the year after!
I can see Kreinik 1/16 Ribbon in colour #9 as the snow covering the evergreen trees done in Perle Cotton Size 8 colour #169. The snow accents in cotton embroidery floss colour #2. The thread sampler set would make wonderful accents on packages under the trees. Beautiful treads – thank you for the hard work of dying and creating such beautiful art! Debbie Dillow
I love deep reds and burgundy teamed with deep purples and green…
Blue/silver/lavender – this year at any rate. It seems to change each year!
I love the contrast of color against black. It makes the colors pop really beautifully. And the colors I love to use are in the teal and purple families. I find they are the colors that I gravitate to and the colors that I pick most when I do either quilting or counted cross-stitch.
Traditionally I am a red and gold person though in the last couple of years I have really been drawn to the combination of turquoise and copper … not traditional, but very striking.
Hi! My Christmas colors are the traditional: medium green and red. Several designers in recent years have strayed from the traditional into more modern themes, but I must confess to changing their designs back to what brings cozy memories to me.
thank you for all you do for the needlework community,
Lois S – central Texas
Hi- When I was younger I felt that the only colours for Christmas were dark red and dark green and white, however as I got older, I shifted to blue and white and now I love adding purples and burgundies and various shades of green. The thread samples in the giveaway are just beautiful and really do evoke Christmas for me now.
Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this giveaway.
My favorite Christmas colors are those associated with Victorian designs: medium and dark maroon, ecru, a not-too-shiny gold. These go well with Christmas angels, crazy quilting, handmade laces, and a deep dark green. (But sometimes while out shopping, you find an amazing mixture that is nothing like your favorite, like a mint green mixed with hot pink and red, that you just fall in love with!)
Thank you for your wonderful blog!
I love dark blue with white/silver accents. Thank you for the giveaway opportunity!
The traditional Christmas colors of red and green are my favorite.
I thought this question would be easy but when I looked out in etsy at the yarns that Colour Compliments offers I am stumped. It is easier for me to tell you that I am not a pink or pastel person. I love bold colors mixed with pastels. My Christmas colors would be sampler #18 with beautiful dark reds, glittery gold on red, and vivid greens. On the other side of the scale I love sampler #5 wth dark blues and greens, frosty blues and brown golds.
Well generally I am a blue and silver person, since blue is my favourite colour. However, I am finding more recently that I am leaning more and more towards burgundy and plum. For Christmas, I love burgundy with gold and green.
What beautiful threads. Years ago, I chose gold and white for my Christmas tree, and began collecting gold ornaments of every kind, matte or shiny, with some pearl and white trinkets added over time. When it was in style, I hung metallic gold tinsel, as well. The tree skirt is dark green velvet and satin, white, and gold lame. Everything else in the house is decorated in Christmas (or pointettia) red, showcasing my collection of nativity scenes. I have not been well enough the past 3 years to actually decorate for the holidays, but hope that I may soon be able to.
Although I love all things Colour Complements, Christmas truly brings out the red in me, all shades, with accents of green.
Anything BLUE-SILVER-WHITE in frosty, variegated, creamy, velvet, textures. Any type ..This year I am even making Navy blue Santa hats for my family. Christmas and the holidays are such a wonderful Blessing..
We do blue and silver at our house. My hubby is Blue Santa for the local police department
I always go with the traditional red & green!
Really enjoy your blog – and want to sign up for this free thread –
thank you
I use color themes to match the mood of the room. In the family room, it’s cheery red & white with gold accents. The dining room has elegant burgundy with gold accents and the living room has calm white with soft green and light pink accents. I use mostly red or white throughout the remainder of the house.
Mary, I love Lorraine’s threads and can recommend them. As for Christmas colurs, I am such a boring traditionalist…it’s green, red and gold for me! And for one of my daughers-in-law; my other d-i-l is far more adventurous.
Blues, greys, and hints of silver, which is weird because green is my favorite color. Maybe Christmas is my little break from that.
Traditional red and green, I think, with gold and silver for shine. Since I live in Japan, I see lots of non-traditional Christmas displays.
I’m more a dark purple and gold kind of person.
Traditional red and green are my absolute favorites, but gold and champagne runs a close second! Thanks for such a wonderful website and hosting these lovely give a-ways!
Since I live in NZ, every year I look forward to the pohutakawa trees flowering at Christmas time. They come out in scarlet sprays of flowers, and have native birds singing in them until their flowering period ends. So for me, Christmas means that scarlet, combined with the gold of tinsel and Christmas decorations.
I prefer traditional Christmas color – bright red and green. But on the tree I like many colors but only white lights.
Thanks for the opportunity to win these threads
Patricia
I am a traditional red and green for most everything, but do stretch that to cranberry and forest green. I like to set my table with a blue tablecloth and red accents of candles, cranberry glass and red baubles, mixed in with my collection of small nutcrackers!
Thank you Mary and Colour Complements for this give away. I love Christmas and I tend to go for darker or more muted shades of red and green with gold thrown in. I also like pink and light green as well as burgundy and gold. I only use white, blue, and silver if I am making something for someone who wants something winter themed as opposed to Christmas. To me winter themed is not Christmas.
Love your website and embroidery is my passion and then quilting is a very close second so do try to incorporate both together. Favorite C-MAS colors are silver and blue not much into shades cause i love and can work most any
thing together
Purple! And green and gold!
I love the blues, greens, pinks and purples and if it is sparkly even better.
Oh my, to choose colors when I love them all. The burgundy and green shown are so happy to chase away the winter duldrums. For Thanksgiving I love the oranges, orange reds, browns and the sage greens. Christmas is always red and green for me, very traditional. January is icy blue and silvers. February is Reds and Pinks. March and April bring in all the bright pastels for Easter. Oh, I just love COLOR. Back to the Burgundy and Green you showed, wonderful colors together.
Thanks for the opportunity to win.
Hi Mary, hope your Thanksgiving holiday was wonderful. I love the burgundy and gold and forest green colors…. but, upon looking at my Christmas decorations , I seem to have always gone with the traditional red and green. ALL of the colors Lorraine has made are beautiful to look at. I’m a sucker for yarn and threads of bright colors; can’t resist buying when I see the beautiful ones. Hope your Christmas holidays in KS are peaceful and enjoyable.
Christmas – for me the spirit of Christmas fills the year; thus it is that I find all the entire pallet appealing.
I’m all for tradition, red and green with touches of silver. Amazing threads and beautiful color combinations.
I’m really enjoying your site and love the thread.
I am a old fashioned person…I love the green, red, silver and gold kind of person for the Christmas themes. It is my favorite time of year, next to fall that is! Thank you for all you do to keep us informed and teach us new techniques or new products we never knew of 🙂
That is, for me, a tough question to answer. My favorite Christmas colors are two types: Victorian reds, greens, etc. And blue/silver. Between the two, I cannot decide. It depends on the project. It depends on my mood. I have done Christmas in everything from bright colors cross stitch, surface embroidery, and needlepoint to cream on cream Hardanger. I enjoy them all.
What beautiful threads! I think my favorite color scheme is white, blue, silver, etc. Looks so crisp and clean, like a good Colorado mountain winter!
My favorite Christmas colors have changed over time. I used to be very traditional (Christmas red/green), then in the late 80s/early 90s, the burgundy/hunter/gold fever struck. I’ve done Christmas red and white/crystal, and the more muted, primitive barn reds/black/mustard combos.
But, when I think of color and Christmas, I always go back to the bright primaries of the old big-bulb Christmas lights. Red, blue, green, orange in retina-singing splendor – that’s Christmas!
I like pink/green or burgundy/olive with some gold accents. Or shiny jewel tones on white branches… just about anything except for the traditional red/green…
I use the red, green, white when making holiday stitchery, but I think I really prefer the icy whites and silvers – just need to push myself to use something different!
Happy day after Thanksgiving to you, too! I’m a blue and silver person, I think; there’s nothing more peaceful than a winter evening when all the sounds are muffled and everything is still and it seems like the whole world is quiet.
Ooh. Pinks! I’m sitting here looking at my biggest tree. It’s decorated in pinks from icy to hot and blues from pale snowy to light turquoise. I have the perfect garland with just those colors plus splashes of spring green. I confess that I have multiple trees so I do use other color schemes on other trees, but I have quite a collection of lovely pink ornaments. Looks perfect in this room. And I just finished a Christmas sampler on which the tree was decorated with little pink ribbon roses and little flat pearl beads. Lovely! And I didn’t change a thing! Love pinks!
I luv purple and silver at Christmastime ❤❤❤
I’m a pretty conservative Christmas color person. I like the traditional red and green, although blue and white are especially good into the winter.
Merry Christmas. I would love to win these as I” making my granddaughter a pillow for Christmas.
Thank you
My favorite Christmas color combination is Christmas red and lime green and a little sparkle of gold and silver.
I love everything about the colors of Christmas. The traditional reds and greens with the frosty silvers, and bright golds. They bring the season to life. As a child my mom worked in a clothing store, at Christmas, when school was out, I would go with her to work. I had to stay in the employee break room, which was just off the area with the wrapping table. My favorite thing was watching the ladies wrap the gifts in all the beautiful papers, tied with bows of those gorgeous colors. The red foil paper with the bright green ribbons was my favorite. I still have fond memories of those days, when I’m wrapping gifts every year.
I enjoy seeing the old fashioned and traditional colours of deep greens, berry reds and gold.
Hello Mary,
What great colors , these are just what I like to use. I need to push myself away from this color palette sometimes 🙂 I am trying, but my all time favorite is this one.
I don’t know why but these colors make me happy and I always love to stitch with these colors.
Have a great day tomorrow and I will reading you tomorrow morning.
Louise
Reds and pinks, warm and awesome!
I love overdyed threads. Who doesn’t? It is good to learn of many sources for threads around the country and world. As to preference of Christmas colors. I think it depends on the design I am working on. Right now I am stitching a small piece with snowflakes which is shades of blue and white. If I had a Santa it would be red, and an angel, gold.
As i live in the southern hemisphere we have a summer christmas. I still can’t get used to it, being born in th UK. However it is sprng here and the colours i always enjoy are rich sapphire blues for the clear sky, greens of all shades that represent the new growth in the bush and of course bright pinks and purples for the massive array of blossoms that we have down under. I can certainly enjoy stitching under the shade of blossoming wisteria, glass of wine included, of course, just enjoying the beauty of my surroundings!
I love dark green and burgundy.
I love green and red at Christmas! With a sprinkle of gold and silver. Thank you!
The first Christmas stitching I did was on opalescent evenweave with blue “black work” stackable biscournu which look like a Christmas tree. Although I like the non traditional colours, I also love the red and green. I really struggle to choose a colour scheme, which is why I leave the tree decorating to the kids even if it does end up looking like Christmas threw up on it.
I really love this winter season! Every color associated with winter makes me want to create something, whether it is the wintry blues and grays of ice and snow, or the bright red and green on Christmas trees. I think my very favorite is the burgundy of cranberries mixed with the dark green of pine trees with a little gold thrown in for sparkle.
Thanks for keeping me inspired!
Hi Mary, thanks for a delightful giveaway! Hard question tho’ – I like the deep rich colors, but with muted versions thrown in as well, so there is a look of old-fashioned holidays past. Then then, shades of ice and blue are also nice!
My favorite colors for Christmas are a very deep purple paired with acid green!
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My name is Marie-Josee and I live in Canada, Quebec.
My favourite colors are pink & aqua/teal and even violet & green.
Thank you very much for this chance to win something.
Happy Holidays!
PS: hope to win … never did!
I’m open to lots of colors, but this year I’ve added chartreuse, lots of silver sparkles and frosted white and antique pink, oh and mercury glass. I try not to use dark colors.
I absolutely love colour! Mauves, purples, aquas, teals, pinks – the colours found in an abalone shell! Under water scenes are conjured up plus a summer garden…………..!!!
All types of embroidery call to me when I see these colours! In fact I do suffer from colour highs! They draw me in & I begin to picture in my mind the type of embroidery I would love to create with them.
I love so many different holiday colors I find it hard to pick a favorite.. This year I think I want to go with bright non- traditional colors.pinks, baby blues and a soft purple and green…
My favorite winter colors are gold and green, preferably the darkest form of each.
Red, Green, and Gold! The brighter the better. I love the bright colors during this time of year. Working with these colors helps to keep the gloom away.
Nancy in Newport here. I love burgundy and gold – until I look at blue and silver = or teal and red. I’d probably have to go with blue and silver/white (my high school colors). All threads are beautiful.
I love all of the jewel tones. They always remind me of the velvet dresses my mother would make for me for Christmas / winter 🙂 .
Deep garnet red and forest green with a bit of gold and copper.
My favorite colors for the Holiday Season and Winter projects are the blues and silver although I often do use the reds, greens and gold of the Christmas season. SandyB
Love the red and green Christmas colours, but then they are all so lovely. Thankyou for this beautiful competition.
Daisy Debs
Ocean greens and blues for me !
Love the red and green Christmas colours, but then they are all so lovely. Thankyou for this beautiful competition. Would be nice to have these colours.
Lately I have been doing red work for xmas gifts and in all my 12 years of embroidery this is the 1dt time I did red work and I have fallen in love with it!! Sew red is my fave Xmas colors to work with
I like icy blues and whites for winter. I live in the AZ desert so these are never found in nature, so I use them in the house.
I find my color choice changing and I’m drawn to the brighter colors. I also like the modern color schemes.
Lovely colours, lovely competition
I love the burgundy and green with a touch of gold
I love blues, white, silver and a little purple thrown in. It makes for a different but beautiful holiday decor.
Love the traditional course, but I especially like the greens and g
olds together
I am a fan of silver and gold ornaments on a real green tree. I like the shine and elegance which dresses up a classic tree. I am having rotator cuff surgery on 11/30 so decorating will be up to my husband for the first time in 47 years! It will be fun to see his version. Merry Christmas all!
I especially like ‘jewel tones’, the burgundy and greens shown in this article are especially favored. I most always choose golds for glitz and shine, but have been known to use silver where it fits better. I like intense colors and often wear them as well as used them in my artwork.
I’m going for a pink Christmas tree with gold and cream decorations again this year and sparkly lights…..hope it survives my cats better than last year when they pulled it over! It’s quite bright, but very pretty.
My favorite colors for Christmas are the traditional red and green with some pink and gold thrown in!
I love the burgundy and gold theme for Christmas. I live in a hot climate in Australia, and when I see the rich colours of Burgundy and Gold , I close my eyes and try to imagine a white Christmas with an open fire, curtains drawn and snow falling outside.. Where in reality it is 40 degrees outside and salads are the go…..I know it is a romantic notion from watching too many movies, but I can dream.
Happy Christmas
My favorite colors of the season are the deep evergreens. The green really shines in any holiday palette.
I like blue and silver the best. Second place would be dark green, burgundy and gold.
I am definitely a red and green person for Christmas, but my reds lean more toward burgundy and my greens toward a forest green. This year will be the debut year for a beautiful quilted tree skirt using these colors.
My favorite colours for the holidays are forest green, a soft gold and a warm orange. These make me thing of my grandparents’ Christmas tree (green with mostly red decorations) with the family gathered round, lit just by the light of a flickering fire (the orange!). A hand made ornament is a treasure but I like to share the memories I have with these types of things.
I’m a traditional Christmas colors person, so true red and true green with gold. I love Christmas-inspired plaids too, but plaid isn’t a color (?). Thanks for the give-away! I love your posts; I learn so much from them.
I am starting to love the contemporary look of aqua and red and silver for Christmas decor- I used to be very traditional, but we moved to a mid century modern house last year and my colors are all softer and cooler than they used to be! Gorgeous threads- thanks for introducing me to another great source.
I have stayed with red, green, and gold theme. Mostly because it’s what my three kids liked when they were little. Now that they are teenagers, we been changing colors up a little. I love decoration that have a antique color look, like the old glass ornaments have. It makes me feel that it is really Christmas, instead of the more commercial look. I love blues, pinks, greens, reds, and yellows of the old glass ornaments, warm lights on the tree, and tinsel hanging down.
I love traditional red (on the burgundy side), green and gold with pops of bright colour.
Christmas in Australia is a bit different to your Christmas and the colours are very different too! The days are hot and the sky is a brilliant blue – until it changes to thunderstorm grey or black, of course. I must admit I prefer the traditional reds and greens with a smattering of white, although my (green) tree is wonderful mixture of sentimental favourite decorations with bits and pieces from places I’ve visited, decorations I’ve made or had since childhood and all the colours seem to blend together just beautifully.
It’s a toss-up regarding colors, but I’d say either
Blue shades with white shades
Or
Gold shades with brown or green.
Cheers,
Chris Watson
My favorite Christmas colors are definitely bright red and dark green – think red holly berries and fir trees.
This is one of the most difficult questions I have ever had to answer. I love all the colors of Christmas. Christmas is one of my favorite times of the year, because of the variety of colors. The palate I work with depends on the time piece I am working on, and how I feel at the time. Do I want bright colors or icy colors. It also depends on who I am giving the piece to, as I do give most of my work away to family members. Do, I am sorry to say, I cannot narrow down my choice to one particular palate of colors at this time of year.
My favorite Christmas colors are blue and silver. It reminds me of Doris Day singing Silver Bells.
Pinks & greens are my flavour of the month but usually I am a warm colours girl
I am dreaming of a blue and silver Christmas here in cold Wisconsin
Christmas in southern Australia is often hot and dry, so a washed-out palette is what I associate with the festive season – the sparkle is provided by the glare of a too-hot sun! Needless to say, decorations are of the home-made, many-hued variety.
I love to use the traditional colours of red, gold & green for decorating my Christmas tree and my living and family rooms but my Christmas table and dining room are done in blue, white and silver to match my china.
Colors are so much fun to play with! This year, my Christmas color preferences are dark burgundy, forest green and metallic gold. Who knows next? But, for gifts…whatever their heart’s desire.
Oh my, I’m a bright true red and pine green Christmas person. I love ❤️ traditional everything…Santa, bells , candy canes … so on and do on. Bring on Christmas !
For Christmas I love red/green/gold combination. They feel so warm in our cold and dark climate and the light just zings them.
I’m a fan of frosty blue and white to celebrate the winter season. I’m (slowly) working on a beaded blue and white snowflake quilt and the perles would make for beautiful big stitch quilting.
Oh I love just about any color combo, but burgundy and rich blues are some of my favorites for Christmas and winter in general. Add a little flash of gold or silver and it’s even better. Thanks so much for the giveaway!
Of course l Love the red and green but my favorite would be Blue and silver. Blue for the sky and silver for the snow.
I want as much color as I can get. I want every color represented on my trees and in the lights. Rainbows At Christmas!!! Color! Color! Color! (with a healthy helping of Red)
For general all winter, you can’t beat white and light blue.
For Christmas, think old or Victorian–burgundy and old gold.
I like the icy blues and the silver colors for Christmas. You can smell and feel the crispiness in the air and smell the freshness. Whether the smells are included with pine branches or cinnamony aromas, it’s accentuated with theses colors….
For Christmas, colors are definitely red and green BUT winter to me is always blue and white. I am in the process of saving fabric for a winter quilt that is both pieced and embroidered along with a crazy quilt block border. Blue and white and multiple color blue/white thread is on the horizon for this project.
What beautiful threads! I love burgundy and green, maybe mixed with a touch of gold.
Burgundies, forest greens and golds are my favorite Christmas colors. Wild love to win some beautiful threads!
Thank you for this exciting giveaway. My favorite colors for this season are deep red and dark green.
I love burgundy and gold. I have decorated my tree and home in these two luscious colors for over 20 years. I collect a few new ornaments every year. I look forward to hearing from Mary every week.
I am a traditional Christmas color person. Nothing evokes Christmas for me more than the Christmas red and green. Such a vibrant combination that is uniquely Christmas. With, of course, a little glitz and bling added to really bring out the holiday feeling. When my daughter was a toddler, she always wanted to go the the Red and Green restaurant for her birthday. Only thing was, her birthday is two days after Christmas so everything was red and green! We finally figured it out after driving around for quite a while, and just decided to go to one that we always went to. It was a Chinese restaurant that had red and green lights in their window all year long! After that we always called it The Red and green restaurant, and now can’t remember the real name. So, Christmas red and green are definitely the color that is Christmas for me and brings back that wonderful memory.
Thank you so much for your fabulous blog and all the wonderful giveaways you bring to your followers.
Bless you!
I too favor the traditional deep greens and reds with gold for holiday colors.
My favorite Christmas and winter colors are blue and silver. They remind me of blue Christmas lights glowing on snow, blue lights reflecting off tinsel, and it makes me want to sing Silent Night. It gIves me the true feeling of the holiday.
Another great competition, thank you! My favourite Christmas colours are burgundy and silver. I think you need some glittery sparkle at Christmas. Ho ho ho!
Lynda
Living where I do, I lean more toward the greens in our desert gardens – cactus, rosemary, jojoba – paired with the “pop” of bright red or deeper reds.
Because I live in a tropical region My choice of Christmas colours may be a little different. I like apple green, bright yellows, watermelon pink, sky blue and for a bit of bling silvers. Three trees out side my home have red flowers so I see more than enough red lol.
I’m a bit of a traditionalist when it comes to Christmas, so definitely I like to decorate and stitch in reds and greens. I also love sparkle though, so a touch of gold or silver is needed too.
Love the colours, being summer will enjoy the christmas colours.
Jennifer.
I just love the burgunfy and gold combination coupled with some darkish green for good measure. It just speaks of christmas trees and candles and beautiful dark santas coats.
I’ve been getting her emails with pictures of beautiful work done with her threads, even the colorways I wouldn’t choose on my own work up marvelously. Her website is really worth a look.
I love the icy blues and silver that reflect the beauty of winter.
Most of my old treasures are the traditional red and green but any two complimentary colors will work. Blue and deep gold (for a version of orange), purple and bright gold (for violet/yellow). Or a triad of colors. Or a theme. Like my kitchen tree all done in copper and red gingham and burnt sienna gingerbread people (an analogous scheme). My favorite tree right now is a small one for my guest bath that is covered in teals and lime green and fuschia glittered decoration. All of this is why it’s SO important for artists in ALL media to understand color theory. So we can know WHY the colors we like work so well together, not just that they’re pretty! Yea color theory!
I grew up in the Deep South and Christmas was always deep green (pine trees) & bright pink (camellias). But I’m living in Colorado now and my color sense is morphing into icy shades of bright blue (clear skies) & the whitest of white (snow).
Every year I sing “I’m dreaming of a White Christmas” and every year I write “Please let it snow ” on my list for Santa but every year it is more than 30C (85F ?) here in Queensland, Australia. So it is the icy blues and whites for me, with a dream of a White Christmas before Rigor Mortis sets in.
My favorite Christmas colors are deep burgandy and muted tones of green.That is absolutely beautiful colors & will make someone have a happy Christmas.
Thanks for the opportunity.
I like semi-traditional Christmas colors – peach/gold and forest green, or lime/olive/avocado and rust/burgundy. They’re a little calmer, to my mind, than the strictly complementary emerald/scarlet, which just seems to vibrate. Holly berries on a holly tree, OK, that’s how God designed it to look and I’m not going to interfere (and it’s balanced by a lot of brown leaves and gray clouds anyhow), but inside the house I want a little more mellow.
Oh my, color — I guess my very favorite combination is a very clear cranberry red with forest green — not muted…. but then when I look around our decorated house I also see blue and silver, true red with green and white, primitive creams with ruddy reds…. Scandinavian reds and blues…. seems like red, green and blue are the basis and I can actually decorate after Christmas by simply pulling out the greens (and obvious December decor) — reds and blues are great January / February colors!!
Nice question!! Look forward to reading the comments!
Shades of green have always been the cornerstone of my Christmas decorating while I tend to change accent colors each year. I shift to greys, black and silver for the long NE winters.
These are so pretty!
I’m a traditionalist, so my favorite Christmas colors are a bright red and a Christmas-tree green.
For me as a blue & white girl my choice for christmas is blue & silver of course! My blue & white Wedgewood decorations on my tree come up a treat with the silver. But I do like a change occasionally with puple & gold.
I always use red, white and gold fir Christmas as I have a lot of angels and snowflakes I crocheted many years ago.
Pam C Vic. Aus.
Love the bright colors. Add these things a gingerbread house and someone may try to take a bite.
To me Christmas is the Burgandy and gold tones. Love Loraine’s color choices.
I love deep purples against the green of the tree. Thanks for this giveaway – this is on my “present for me list” and I’ve been trying to pick!!
I want to branch out beyond floss and try new threads. I love bright green and bright red but am a color person so happy with just about anything!
Beautiful depth of colour. The frosty would be lovely for some Christmas touches. I particularly liked the darker greens and the beautiful deep blues from the colour range. ..but they are all lovely, soft but rich colour.
I tend to go for the Victorian colors like the pink and pale green but I have been known to go red and gold as well. Love to decorate for Christmas every year with my granddaughters and they love to see it all come together. Rosie Kobrock
I’m all about the Jewel Tones! As an Interfaith Chaplain I participate in a wide variety of holiday traditions and one of the things that bring them together for me are rich beautiful colors.
My favourite would be white on red. I’m a huge red fan in general and the holiday season is just an excuse (like Valentine’s!). I’m from the southern hemisphere, where the holidays are in summer,so the wonder associated with a snowy white Christmas is something I can only get in movies – and with stitching! Of course, adding gold accents just perfectly rounds it off!
I always love seeing the “new” color schemes that are used in designs every year, but I’m a traditionalist – green and red for me!
I love colors…..they are all luscious. Sometimes they complement, sometimes they clash. My selections are not perfect, they do not follow a traditional theme, but whatever colors I choose they always seem to meld into a bohemian array of textures and styles when I stray from the purchased designer kits or patterns and try something of my own. Thank you for this opportunity to participate in one of your spectacular give-aways.
I love all shades of green and silver to go along with it.
Roma Crowhurst
My favourite Christmas colours are burgundy fading into pinks, bright green fading into lights and gold for sparkle….or any other colour combo that takes my fancy.
My favorite Christmas colors are burgundy, beige and dark (hunter?) green. Although, after making Christmas stockings for some cousins, I have begun to appreciate the bright reds, white and greens together!
Thanks for the giveaway Mary!
My favorite holiday color combination are blues and silvers.
My color choice for Christmas is blues, greens, and silver with just a touch of pink. I like to use these in different combinations for each room.
Debi P Ma
Bright primary colors. Can’t go wrong with the red, green, bright blue and gold. I have always stuck by them. Love looking at the other colors–blue and white especially, but not changing now after 40 plus years of marriage!
Johanna Stomel.
I like jewel tones, mostly.
I am a burgundy/hunter green type of Christmas theme person accented with gold.
Hello, last year I changed to the colors on my Christmas tree, I have a green tree and it is trimmed with 6″ wide red burlap ribbon and huge gold balls. I really liked the different look and will be using it again this year. On the top I made a huge red ribbon bow that finished the tree. The colors of the threads shown are my colors, my friends all tease me because I am always wearing the colors or doing needlework with those same colors. They are beautiful and this would be the ideal set.
My fav color combo for Christmas is blue and frosty silver/white. So pretty!
Love pink and pale green but can easily do rent and green also.
Roxie
I like silver and gold. I also love the deep, dark reds and ice blue and white.
Many of my decorations date to my childhood (50 some years ago) and tend to be traditional red and green but I love burgundy and gold and blue and silver too.
I love all the colours! For Christmas I still like the traditional reds, greens, gold etc. I guess that is from growing up in the Northern Hemisphere but now I live in Australia and mid winter is now mid summer! I think that the bright summery golden and brilliant flower colours would do nicely too! I just love the sparkly threads; it would be adelight to stitch with any of the threads.
Cheers
Hendrika
I like burgundy red, forest green and crystal mixed in for shiny.
I have just spent ages browsing all the thread colours and cannot pick my absolute favourite! I love all the jewel colours and especially the purples and pinks.
For Christmas, I tend to like purple and gold, but then, I am so eclectic in my tastes that I end up having lots of colour.
Jenny
Here in very sunny Australia, where it’s often over 100 degrees when you are baking shortbreads and mince pies, I like colours that give me a sense of an old-world wintry Christmas – deep greens and burgundies for the holly that won’t be out here, silver sparkles and snowy whites for the snowmen we’ll never build!
My Christmas colors are always red and green – having said that there are lots of variations of red and green including burgundy, then one has to have some gold and of course pale pink and green is always so pretty. My favorite color of all is blue so blue and silver and blue and white always make an appearance somewhere. The blue and silver reminds me of the snow in Colorado at Christmas. What can I say I love Christmas and I love color!!
I tend to be a traditionalist and love red and green for Christmas. However, I will add some sparkle at times, whether it be gold or silver. Adding beads or crystals also makes ornaments and stockings have some holiday flair. I think these threads are beautiful and would love to try them out. I’m planning on stitching the stockings featured in Inspirations Magazine issue 92 and would use the threads if I won.
I would choose the traditional deep reds and greens for Christmas. I have a particular use for this perle floss — a doubly-inherited UFO project!
My grandmother was born in the late 1800’s, and taught me to embroider and quilt. She was a very traditional and exacting quilter — everything was done by hand. My mother (who quilted as well) inherited a large box of miniature dresden plate quilt blocks. My grandmother pieced these, with incredible accuracy, when she was in her 90’s. Each plate has at least 30 pieces, approximately 3/4 of an inch wide.
My grandmother’s favorite holiday was Christmas. She and my grandfather spent weeks decorating and preparing. My mother planned to add a Christmas novelty circle to the center of each plate, then embroider around the circle with feather stitching. (Hence, the perle cotton.) My mother completed 10 of the blocks before she herself passed on at age 93. I have 70 blocks left to do!
There are enough blocks to make two wall hangings, perfect to pass on to my two children. My plan is to finish them, and not have triple UFO’s!
I would love to see some pictures of these. They sound beautiful! Thanks, Sue Montano
I love darkish reds, brick through turkey, so more to the orange side than fushia. I play these against darkish green, to the yellow side. But then again, one of my favourite Christmas quilts is blue-green and violet, a little inconsistency being the spice of life!
Penelope P.
What yummy threads!!! I am a traditional red and green for Christmas but always add some silver and blue to remind me of the snow in Colorado. Burgundy and gold seem to always have an appearance as well!! I love Christmas and I love color!
Here in sunny hot Australia Christmas colours are different. One of my favourite memories of childhood Christmas is the church overflowing with masses of blue hydrangeas blue and white agapanthus and cream and red Australian Christmas bush and Mum beforehand having the laundry tubs full of flowers in anticipation of “doing the flowers” The burgundy and green threads remind me of rows of boiled lollies in their glass jars. My fingers are itching to get at them !! Thank you Mary for the opportunity. Isn’t the build up to Christmas fun ? Chris M
I am a pastel colours person, I love soft shades especially pinks in combination with oranges which I use for my christmas projects in folk art/Skandinavian Embroidery.
I am torn between the traditional red and green, and the deep burgundy with gold! Lol, I have a white tree and a purple tree!
I like cream and gold because I think they are more elegant than red and green color schemes and also more friendly to other times of the year besides Christmas. Blue and white are also lovely and wintery.
I’m pretty much a traditionalist when it comes to Christmas. I love antiques and the whole Victorian thing. So, traditional red, white and green for me. But dark red and green please. While I think the other reds, pinks, greens, etc are pretty, they just don’t say Christmas to me.
Silver and gold, like the song!(maybe I should start learning goldwork) Silver and blue is another favorite and if I want a wintry feel; I have to go with icy blue.
I have a thing for red fabric. I love it all year. For Christmas projects, I love to add as much gold fabric and thread as possible.
My favorite colors for Christmas are red and white with a touch of cristal. I really want to try these threads and I am happy to learn that they are made and distributed in Canada. Thank you Mary for the gifts.
I like the bright and colorful colors. Red, pink, turquoise, light green, green, blue and yellow. Maybe a little purple too. Reminds me of children and laughter which just makes me smile from my heart. And a touch of orange. Thank you Sue Montano
My favourite Christmas colours are a burgundy , green and silver combination. I just love Lorraine’s threads. My friend, Verna , introduced me to them when she made the beautiful Temarai balls featured on Lorraine’s website.
The colors that I always associate with Christmas are bright red and bright green. They are the Christmas colors of my childhood, and always bring back the happy coziness of winter Christmases in New York. Here in Australia, where Christmas is in the middle of summer, other colors like icy blue and silver seem to be more appropriate and popular, but to me they just don’t convey that holiday feeling.
I love the traditional colors for Christmas time, gold and burgundy, reds and greens. But the blue and silver combo reminds me of a sparkling winter snow scene.
I love the silver and lavender for my adult Christmas colors. After years of red, green and white and felt ornaments for the kids and grand kids it was fun to be a grown up.
My favorite Christmas colors are the traditional reds & greens. Thank you
I’m a traditionalist. Love ❤️ the red’s, green’s and sparkling silver and gold.
I can’t say what my favourite Christmas colours would be. It depends on the brightness, the intensity, etc. Certainly the greens in the photos in your post are calling to me – as are all the colours. What is it about colour that speaks so delightfully?
I love the new colored threads. It’s eye candy…
As for Christmas I go for red and green
My favorite colors for the season are either silver and blue, or Christmas green and red. I love snow flakes done in silver threads on a blue ground! Most in the family are very traditional, hence the red and green…
Hello, Mary. What beautiful thread! Regarding your question, I think traditional bright red and green is my favorite Christmas color combination, with a lot of white and cream added, so that the red and green is not too overwhelming. Thanks! Jeannie
I love to do a contemporary color scheme for Christmas with deep teal , fuchsia and purple! I always include peacocks and birds along with my antique glass ornaments. The tree turns out so beautiful and my family and friends truly enjoy that it’s so different.
Thank you Mary for sharing all your wonderful tips and techniques to speed along my stitching addiction.
Red, red, red! With either gold or silver thread to add glitz! If I can find a red ‘glitzy’ thread I like to use that too.
Chris
My favorite colors associated with Christmas are very traditional with red,green and white with a little gold added to the mix.
I always seem to gravitate to a “white” Christmas. Whites with hints of other very pale colors – silver, frost blue, the lightest greens and pinks – just speak of winter here in the midwest. Of course there needs to be a little sparkle to bring it all to life.
Red/green/gold are my favorite but I figure if it is warm and cheerful and the colors show up on the multi-color strand of lights it is fair game!
My favorite Christmas color is a rich pine green. It goes with everything but really I love it because I grew up in the Pacific Northwest. I have landed in Kansas and miss the evergreens so much…well except for the cedars that try to invade my pasture!
Hi Mary happy holidays my favorite has to be purple and silver.
Something totally unique. ..like purples
I am influenced by the colours of the Australian rural landscapes where i live. Harvesting the wheat surrounds Christmas, so its definitely not a holiday season. My colours are the golden shades akin to the wheat in the paddocks, the clear silver of the moonlight of the hot nights when harvesting can continue late into the night.
I am more of a green, white, red contemporary person. I like bold colours! I also love colours that speaks to me. Threads are a way of playing with colours for me. Depending on the topic or theme, it is colours that can portray my feeling.
Hi Mary, I love the beautiful burgundy& gold, they conjure up the beautiful old world embroideries & tapestries. I think maybe born in the wrong era!! Thank you for the chance to win these lovely threads. Nancye.
Beautiful colors! I usually tend to go with the reds and greens but also love the bright colors I associate with Dr. Susess. Just depends on my mood that year.
I love ’em all…love all the colors:)
I have a canvas in my stash that is screaming for threads in a blue/silver palette. It is a very winter canvas that need varied stitches and lots of texture. It needs that cold snowy sparkle and these threads seem to fit the bill.
I love colors! They draw me in like magnets. I buy thread even when I have nothing in mind,especially when they are loud, rich and noisy. Can’t say I have favorites but purples, wine, lilac, and pink are high on the list. Bright orange and yellow with emerald green are special but you will never see them in my clothes. To calm me down, ebony black and white are a choice.
I am a deep green with gold and gilt kind of person for Christmas. Usually red or burgundy are tertiary colors.
To me, Christmas is all about red. A clear vibrant Christmas red – no tones of orange, pink, peach, blue or burgundy.
Red makes decorations pop and shows up well with metallics and all shades of green.
And the best thing is that at Christmas, there’s no such thing as too much red.
Julie S Anderson
I like the burgundy and green
With just a touch of pink
I like the traditional red and green colors for decorating. I like to go with different colors with wrapping paper – blue, white, burgundy, deep green, and gold – anything but red and green.
I am very much a traditionalist when it comes to Christmas. I love overdyes in greens and reds. I use gold and silver metallics along with all values of red and green. Once in a while I will use blue and silver for winter.
I have learned so much from you daily posts. Thanks so much.
My faves are blue & silver!
My colours for this year are;
Cranberry….because it’s soooo good it’s edible
Silver……just hear them bells ringing
And bright fir green….to remind us of of all those needles that drop….. And don’t we just love it all
Have a beautiful season to everyone
Burgandy with greens a little pink and maybe a little sparkle white
Since we don’t have any needlework stores in our area I have only used DMC threads but I know there are other beautiful threads out there and it would be fun to try them. For the holidays I decorate our house in dark greens and burgundies but our kitchen is decorated in snowmen so I use icy blues and silvers.
Thank you for offering these fun contests.
Linda
I have a photo that I took while in Canada two years ago, these are my Christmas colours
The cool blues of the sky delicately touched by the gorgeous hues of the sun; delicate pinks, oranges and reds, the varied greens, greys and browns of the poplar trees in their winter dress and the brilliant white of the snow.
These are my most favourite winter colours, the clarity of the day had such an impact on me that I am creating an embroidery of the picture as my ‘homage’ to winter =)
Metallic gold is a must for celebrating and red is a joyful as you can be! Keep the colors simple and use a lot of them after all it is a time for over the top everything! Just go.for it!
John Waddell
I love not-traditional Christmas colors. I especially like deep blues and golds. there is something so intense about the contrast, and it is so rich.
I love Victorian kind of muddy lilac and pink and pale green on a background of racing car green. Lots of different colours in the same tone – and lots of detail! A maximalist. But if I were to be restricted – burgundy and gold is just delectable.
My current favorite color scheme for Christmas is blue and silver, though the burgundy and green color scheme in today’s offering strikes me as very pretty, too!
I love jewel tones with touches of silver &/ gold for Christmas ornaments. The tree lights just love to play with the reflective quality of beads, metals, and Mylar threads.
I love red and white for Christmas. Thanks for the chance to win.
Christmas is summertime down here and my tree in recent years has been decorated with flower fairies and butterflies in all colours of the rainbow. For winter themes I use the deep burgundies, purples and lots of sparkly bling.
I love all colours and enjoy unusual combinations. My stitched Christmas decoration for a recent challenge was fushia, teal and yellow-orange.
I like rich colors, deep red, green, and gold.
Boring, I know, but for me it’s green and red. I’d have to say green is an overall favorite color…it goes with everything! Green and red plaid with a bit of gold worked through the plaid is wonderful!
My favorite Christmas colors are the traditional green and red, with the colors of snow and pine cones as accents. He’s threads look so beautiful!
Happy Thanksgiving . My favorite Christmas colors are the traditional red and green. But I also like blue and silver. Thanks for all you do for your fans.
Every year, it is red/white/green.
I have to say that I favour the red & green with some gold for Christmas colours.
As a quilter my favourite quilts are the mid 18oo’s Red & Green quilts. I have done a couple of my own version using these old quilts as my inspiration.
I also enjoy doing embroidery & have started to do some stumpwork taking a class you reviewd from Craftsy.
Colour is what I love, bright & bold colours.
I enjoy your Blog & have picked up a lot of helpful hints from your article & have found that your videos & tutorials to be very helpful.
Dawn Cooper
My favorite colors for the holidays are usually burgundy, mauve, and and the muted greens. I sometimes find the bright reds and greens will also fit the bill. I also like a gold trim with most of my colors.
Thank you Mary for another give away. Have a nice Christmas!
I love using silver and blue for holiday projects. And I’ve also use white on over dyed fabrics (like French Country Blue and Baked Apple) and had them turn out stunning. I’m a firm believer that stitchers can never have to many fibers to pick from!!
Angela Geiselman
My favorite Christmas colors are pale pink, burgundy and pale gold. Someday I will have a lovely Victorian tree with those colors, if I’m lucky.
Love the colour palette. Perfect for Christmas or not
I prefer red, green and gold – red for warmth, green for new life, and gold because it is eternal.
I love Lorraine’s threads and especially that she will dye different ones for specific projects. Earlier this year I embroidered a depiction of eucalyptus bark with red kina (resin). She dyed the bark colours for me and they were just perfect. So you can imagine how much I would like to win this one.
For Christmas (bah, humbug – I am a sceptic, but I love the presents), I like white and silver with a little bit of gold and red.
Thanks to both of you for the offer.
I like royal blue, silver and white during Advent, and Gold, white, red &/or green during Christmastide.
I love mauves, different shades, and grays. Blues and yellows come a very close, and I mean a very close second.
Hi Mary,
I’m afraid I can never narrow down my favorite Christmas color schemes 🙂 But 2 of my very favorite are: Midnight Blue and frosty whites, like snow sparkling in the deep evening sky; or Traditional Reds ranging from deep crimson through cranberry, accented with forest greens.
Thank you for your generosity as always, Mary!
Cathy in PA
Christmas in Australia
My colour concept for Christmas started as a child, influenced by an English Dad and NZ mother. We had the traditional English Christmas with lots of tinsel, mainly silver, sparkly red, green, gold and silver baubles, spray-on snow, red and green hats, bonbons and always a real pine tree (ah the smell). Christmas cards depicting snowy scenes all strung up around the room, mince pies, turkey and ham with all the trimmings, fruity home made Christmas cake and presents wrapped carefully in red, green and gold.
And I remember well the afternoons, following lunch, washing the dishes in 90% humidity with sweat running down our arms, flushed beetroot faces and exhausted aunties and uncles trying to get the overfed kids to play backyard cricket with the neighbours and the hose sprinklers working hard to cool off the players and spectators. Bright, bright eye-squinting sunshine, searing temperatures in the 100’s, dry brown grass and crispy trees. No green and red and gold and silver – just multiple hues of brown and yellow, seemingly forever!
Now, sensibly, we retreat to the beach but it is still bright yellow and white as the sun beats down on families nibbling on their picnics sitting alongside vivid blue sea, azure sky and brilliant sunshine. Sunscreen, sunglasses, white zinc cream on noses, hats, beach volleyball and cricket and vivid coloured bathing costumes (called “cozzies” in Oz). Vivid white and grey seagulls marauding the picnic-ers screeching for scraps. Crisp white sails on yachts bobbing around in the distant sea. Rusty brown tankers on the horizon, either moored for Christmas or slowly making their way out to sea for the rest of the world. Ah yes, these are my colours for Christmas . . .
While I have chosen to go traditonal Red with a silver tree now, one of my favorite color schemes was ivory,sage and rose/mauve.
I like looking at whatever the latest color schemes are, but I always go back to jewel tones. They remind me of the shiny brite ornaments we had when I was little.
I am someone who loves bright colors,so one would think that my favorite colors for Christmas would be red & green but that would be a second choice. I really love blue & silver. They are such rich colors for Christmas & grab my eye when I see them used.
I guess I would say I would love mixed sampler size 5 pearl cotton #7 or the mixed sampler #2 size 5 in pearl cotton.
Good luck to all
I love stitching ‘traditional’ embroidery styles in muted colours with ‘pops’ of bright shades. My favourite colours are pinks into muted reds with pale to deeper shades of green. However I also enjoy using seasonal colours such as icy blues and whites for Winter themes or yellow, orange and muddy greens for Autumn.
I am traditional with the red/green color scheme.
Hi Mary,
Thank you for your wonderful efforts to teach us the wonderful art you master and for the work you do to enable us to take advantage of these wonderful giveaways.
My favorite colors for holiday decorating are deep saturated colors, deep burgundy and forest green, with just a hint of gold or silver metallic, but then again, a splash of lime green would really work too. I think that when you come right down to it, I just love all colors!
I like all reds with greens and lots of silver and sparkle. Handmade ornaments .still use my childerns paper ornments from childhood. My oldest is 52yrs old. Very mixed styles but always leaves you with a smile.
Colors of Christmas…I now live in Texas and miss the snow & even the ice back in Kansas. I would choose an icy blue, silver & white to depict the snow scene I miss so much. Thanks for the contest. joan chance
Traditional holly berry red and evergreen all the way
I like burgundy,dark green and gold! I especially like to use small birds and feathers to decorate my tree.
I have never been able to choose just one set of colors for Christmas. For many years, I alternated between three complete sets of Christmas decorations: blue and silver, rose, burgundy, and gold, and a more traditional red and green. When I finally had to downsize, it was a challenge to keep some of each set that would go together yet carry memories of Christmases past.
I like all the Christmas color combinations! We have a lot of conventional red and green, with colored lights inside, but outside we use cranberry ribbons on our wreaths and white lights. I also have some blue and gold things and fill a tall glass columnar vase with shiny balls of all colors. Even the odd Dr. Seuss grinch green shows up now and then!
I’m a blue and silver person! That’s really what I prefer, although come to think of it I’ve never made a blue and silver Christmas quilt (except my older daughter’s stocking). My Christmases are definitely more on the hodgepodgy side rather than color-coordinated.
Merry Christmas Mary!
And thank you for all the work you do.
My favorite Christmas colors are blue, white, and silver. They’re so calm and peaceful.
Cheryl Robinson
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My favourite Christmas colours are the silver/blue combinations. However, after watching the Northern Lights, I admit to loving the greens, golds and purples that dance across a midnight blue sky. Such beauty is hard to duplicate!
My favourite Christmas colours are the traditional red and green. Mind you, my Christmas tree has every colour there is; some glitzy, some old, mostly handmade. There’s the hand knit fair isle egg cozy from Scotland and the Buddhist blessing from Thailand as well as those priceless ornaments made long ago by my now adult children.
Come to think about it, my favorite Christmas colour is every colour there is. I believe I was a raven in another life.
Dark blue, Icy blue, white & silver are my favorites (at least this year!)
LisaAlissa
Another fabulous give-away! Given what the world is throwing out at us all of late, it is most welcome!
I am forever attracted to jewel tones – I wear them almost exclusively! – and the perfect Christmas choices would be Ruby Red and Regal Purple! Elegant and rich!
I love the traditional Christmas red and green color scheme.
Love the colors, and like anything today you can enjoy any colors scheme for the Holidays. Whether its is blue, reds, greens, we have no boundaries to use, and these are just perfect!
What are your favorite colors associated with Christmas or the winter holidays?
Icy blue and silver are my favorites when it comes to winter holidays. Especially when they are combined into gorgeous snowflakes. 🙂
I used to decorate my Christmas tree in all silver and blue with white lights. My hubby prefers more traditional though so we started adding more color into the mix.
Pink & pale green. Definitely. I’m painting an army of Warhammer Wood Elves in those colours – with some silvers and golds for shine! It presages spring in my mind.
Wow ! Those burgundy and greens are gorgeous! Thanks for the Intro to Lorraines shop. Growing up in South Georgia, I have always loved Traditional (with a Vintage feel) color scheme for Christmas but this year I want to step outside of my comfort zone and try something new – maybe Silver and Light Green with a Contemporary feel! Just saying that makes me uncomfortable! lol!! Thanks for the fun giveaway!
I prefer burgundy and forest green over primary colors for Christmas. The darker colors are more natural and consistent with the peaceful and quiet time of year.
I love how you can mix any color scheme for any holiday today, they do not need to be traditional.
My favorite color of the season is gold. I inherited a vintage Christmas tree that is decorated all in gold. I enjoy adding gold ornaments and decorations whenever I can. I also think of gold as one of the gifts for the Christ child.
My favorite colors are the icy blues and whites with a bit of silver and green. These colors have a calming effect and are clean and bright without jumping out at you.
I tend to like traditional color combinations for holidays. My favorite Christmas stitching colors are a rich deep red and a deep forest green, with a bit of gold metallic added in. I also love ice blues paired with metallic silver.
Hello Mary, Thanks for the giveaway. I’m a silver and blue Christmas person. I got that from my mom who always had a white flocked high altitude pine for her Christmas tree and she decked it out with large, shiny, blue balls with velvet blue ribbons tied into bows on the branches and tiny white lights. Mom’s Christmas trees were as chic as she was. Merry Christmas and good luck to everyone!
I love orange-red with eucalyptus-green, all the berry and foliage combinations.
When I think of the Christmas holiday, I immediately think of red and green, but I really do prefer the burgundy and gold color scheme. It seems much more regal and serious (but still in a festive way.. maybe “mature” is a better word?). I feel like I enjoyed red/green in my youth, so that’s probably why I’m leaning more toward burgundy/gold these days. Happy belated Thanksgiving!
I can’t really pick a favorite Christmas color theme, I love them all! It really depends on the project. I love the traditional red and green, for Christmas trees and Santas. I also really like dark blue and silver for snowy scenes, and the light green and pink for more modern designs. I guess I just love Christmas!
My favourite colours for Christmas are blue, silver and white – unfortunately I usually end up with a medley of colours as nobody wants me to leave out any of the many decorations we have accumulated over the years 🙂
Blessings
Maxine
I love the burgundy/raspberry/greens/gold colour families when it comes to my Christmas stitching and the threads shown look positively divine!
What are your favorite colors associated with Christmas or the winter holidays?
blue and silver with white
For Christmas..hmmmmm…I think I would have to go with red, white and pink…. Those are my favorite Christmas colors!
Working on a Baltimore Album type quilt designed by Karen Phillips-Swallon for granddaughter’s wedding. Using many greens in this! Would love to win her threads!
I do love the icy blues & silver combos, but tend to stick with the classic rich reds & greens. I love Christmas tartans, plaids & paisleys! When I do put up a tree there is a lot of red & silver & natural Scandinavian accents made with woven wheat & straw. These days checking out the department store displays I am falling in love with all the purple/pink combos too!
I’d love to try a new thread. Favorite color combinations are dark plum and forest green. It’s a combination that comes and goes, but stays pretty much the same for me. Merry Christmas!
Hello! My favorite Christmas colors are red, green, gold and cream. Merry Christmas!
I switch between the red/green and blue/silver.
I love your creative thinking and learn so much form your work. I really liked learning about the needles to use. I am a icy blue and white kind of girl. M Gray Australia
I like the traditional, Victorian burgandy and dark green with a touch of gold.
I am a traditionalist, I like Christmas red and green. It means a warm, homey feel to me. Maybe with gold or silver intertwined.
When considering colors for decorating for Christmas, I am drawn mostly to those things that sparkle, e.g., gold, silver, crystal, etc. For embroidery, and other fabric arts, some illusion of sparkle can be achieved with creative combinations of color. Besides traditional red and green, I like pink and lime green. As is true for most lovers of color, I do not have a favorite one; I like (almost) all of them!
I love burgandy and forest green.
I am old fashioned and still want a red and green Christmas. I do love all the colors other people use for Christmas, but at home I stick to red and green.
My Christmas color scheme is pink, burgundy and teal. All my decorations are hand made.
I love, love, love red and white.
I love a combination of sky blue, white and silver for winter holidays.
Ice blue and white would be my choice. I live in Australia and Christmas is a hot time of year, but I grew up in Europe and have fond memories of the colours of winter – white, clean and crisp. I guess there will always be a longing in me to relive good childhood memories.
My favorite Christmas colors are traditional red and green, but for the rest of winter I switch over to blues and white. I have enough stitches pieces that I can rotate them with the season. These threads are gorgeous.
Thank you
What beautiful threads! Because Christmas here in Australia is HOT, I always associate Christmas with sea blues and sand yellows. Of course, you people in the Northern Hemisphere will think we are nuts but for me, Christmas is the beach.
I have 2 colour ways for Christmas. One is red and gold and the other is blue and silver. I alternate the colours each year. This year its blue and silver.
My colors are very tradition red and green!!
I’m a traditional red and green girl, with silver tinsel and gold garland!
Hi – Thank you for another of your wonderful giveaways, Mary. They are always interesting. And these threads are beautiful.
What are my Christmas colours? Well, I do like burgundy and gold. I also like blue & silver. Also red and green! I am very easy to please…..
My favourite Christmas colours are blue and silver. They remind me of Christmas eve. No matter how hot it gets in Australia, you still have the depth of the night sky and the sparkle of stars.
My favorite Christmas colors would be green and gold. Love the combo with white lights to make the gold sparkle.
Merry Christmas! My favorite Christmas colors are the old reliable red (Santa) and white (have several Lenox porcelain ornaments). Plus I like the stark contrast between the two.
I love these colors, but my favorite Christmas colors are silver and shades of blur
Marlene Stabin I have had a love affair with icy blues and bronzes, with some gold thrown in for my tree. touches of true red and green are in the mix.
For Christmas I lean towards the purples and silver, not traditional but can look very royal at times. Great threads and thank-you for offering this give away.
I love Christmas and so many colors. I love the traditional Christmas colors of red and green because it brings back a lot of lovely memories of when I was young. I love the blue, silver and red colors which bring back memories of the 1960’s and 1970’s.
I love the new black and gold combos which I didn’t think I would. Then came the red, white , and grey those are just beautiful. So many different combos I didn’t think I’d like. I love then.
It’s so hard to choose, because I love them all. I usually defer to the traditional red and green with touches of gold.
I have always fancied the colors of scarlet red dark green and black. As in black velvet ribbon. I always thought a Xmas tree and decor woluld look great with a red\green\touch of gold tartan plaid and black velvet ribbons. Also with either red and\or white roses.
All of the threads remind me of my grandmother’s button box. Could sit and play with threads for hours. When ever I come to this site it is such an inspiration. Love seeing the new threads
I am a gurgandy/gold person – love the old world santa’s.
I love red for Christmas – red and white or red and silver. Growing up in England in the 50’s our decorations were all colours of the rainbow, it was not until I came to live in Canada in 1975 that I saw the red and green combination everywhere.
Burgundy and emerald green for my Christmas stitching! Blue and silver come in a close second. Traditional Christmas colours of red and green also have their place in ornament stitching. I would love some of the hand dyed thread from Colour Complements to have a go with some canvas work. This winter I would like to get a good start on canvas work and have a try at free motion quilting so let the rains come (they’re here actually!) and the snow fall! I’m lookin’ forward to it!
My names Ida (Sissy) Norred, I love ❤️ all the metallic colors, gold, silver, and some bronze thrown in there. I just love the Christmas lights reflecting off these colors. MERRY CHRISTMAS!
I’m a traditionalist with red and evergreen. I have noticed in some past years there has been a combining of red and lime green and I can’t quite do that. We don’t have a color scheme for our tree it is ornaments gathered over 60 years. I also only want white lights on the tree. My grandchildren think I’m bit of a humbug in that area.
This thread looks like so much fun. Thank you for the chance.
my favorite xmas color schemes are burgundy and white..
love the contrast
For the Christmas tree I like multicolor lights and trimmings. Purples are my color choice for other areas.
Pine green and cherry red with touches of gold and crystal for sparkle and shine!
But lots of multi colored lights on the tree so it looks like it’s covered in sprinkles!
Choosing a color scheme to decorate for Christmas with has alway presented a dilemma for me. I love color and have several color schemes to chose from. One of my favorites is blue and silver it goes so well with my snowman collection, which I’ve made over the years. I also love the traditional colors with some gold thrown in. Dark burgundy is my all time favorite it’s so rich and beautiful. The entire family has a patchwork stocking made from burgundy and matching fabrics. They take up a whole wall by themselves and look stunning.
Merry Christmas Mary!
Live the threads! Thanks for a chance to win! Happy Holidays!
My color preferences depend on what I’m doing with those colors. I love working with monochromatic, analogous, or complementary color schemes for a lot of things. Quilts can be either planned around a set of colors or totally scrappy. CQ work, anything goes, monochromatic, pastels, brights whatever my soul needs at the time. Christmas is traditional red and green. Easter is most always in pastels. My house is in all cool grays with each room having a different accent color. And then I dress in jeans with bright colors – fuchsia, lime, purple, red, blue. Great giveaway of some threads I have been wanting to try. So thank you for the chance to win.
My favorite Christmas color combinations originated from our December wedding in a small country church forty-one years ago. I chose burgundy rather than bright Christmas red and a mistletoe green for a little romance. Those colors still appeal to me today.
My favorite color for Christmas is Christmas red and green. I like gold for sparkle.
Favorite colors are burgundy and evergreen Thank you for thread give away. I love to embroider My mother taught me when I was a child. I now combine embroidery with quilting with Sue Spargo
I would love to do a piece in my favorite winter whites, gold and silver.
Love the colours and 188 would be great in my fibre journal I am currently working on.
When it comes to Christmas colour themes, I am definitely a traditional person, bright Christmas red and Holly green are my favourites. With embroidery projects at other times of the year I am more adventurous.
This year I’m loving the frosty blues and silvers. The sparkling, crispy snow after a freezing cold night. The trees with frost on the limbs and grass. It is so magical.
Well I am a traditionalist when it comes to Christmas, so Red, Green and Gold are my favourite colours for my decorations, paper wrapping, wrapping ties etc etc . I love to LOOK at other colour schemes such as the pink and silver or the pale blue and gold etc . I can quite easily DROOL over colour color coordinated displays in the homes of others, and do admire how so much thought can be employed to get things just right! Then I go home to my red, green and gold and the haphazard decorations collected over 60 years and feel complete!
Hi Mary,
Thank you for organizing these give aways for us. The Threads are wonderful, thank you to Lorraine as well.
Christmas colour! I love traditional red green and white, and really love royal blue and silver, but my all time favourite is Burgundy and gold. So rich.
Thank you again, Mary!
Cheers Judy
SE Queensland, Australia
Oooo! Over dyed threads!
Best Christmas colors are a rich red, deep green, and shiny gold. Unless it manages to snow in Texas. Then it’s all about the WHITE stuff.
I like traditional Christmas red, a deep pine green, and some shiny metallics.
Since I celebrate Hanukkah, it’s blue and white for me. Of course in general, hand me those jewel tones. I like a variety of colors, but give me intensity!
Red, green, gold and silver are my favorite Christmas colors. While they may be the most common colors they are also the brightest and can be seen at a distance easily. The combination of red and green or gold and red, etc. still can produce a lot of variety that cannot only be seen but is quickly recognized as Christmas decor.
I associate red and green with Christmas. But, I don’t like red. Often gold is put with the red and/or green, but I don’t like gold, either. So for Christmas, I usually decorate with green and silver. I leave the red to the Santas that decorate my tree. I now collect Santa in colors other than red, though sometimes a classically dressed (think Coca-Cola advertisements) Santa will call my name.
I love blue and silver for the holidays. It reminds me of snow and frost.
Hi Mary. My Christmas stitching colour choices vary from year to year. Each year I stitch an ornament for each of my family members to hang on the tree. I try to personalize these ornaments and choose a ‘theme’ or design to celebrate a special achievement or event. (I’ve been doing this for the last 16 years and can “track” special moments as I decorate the tree). For example, this year my eldest son got married so the bell ornament I’ve designed for him and my new daughter-in-law uses the colours that they had in their wedding (blush pink and ivory – not colours that I would normally associate with Christmas). I’ve got to say the pale, subtle colours are really quite beautiful with bits of beading ‘bling’ around the bell. So, in short, I really embrace ALL colours and love it when I try something new and a bit unusual.
My favorite holiday colors consist of rich cherry red, emerald green, dark forest green and golds. The bright, warm metallic yellow golds to a warm rich dark gold is beautiful together.
I’m a non-traditional color person. So much red and green already about that I like to shake things up a bit. Actually, your shown give-away of burgundy and green are the perfect sort of colors I like to use. I’ve been known to make up holiday cards using hot pink and lime green!!
Thanks for this opportunity.
Linda42c
I love the tradition of Red and Green. Because we live in a hot climate and miss a traditional Christmas we can at least pretend and decorate highlighting the red of the Australian bottlebrush and the green of the leaves on trees, sadly our lawn is dry and brown so no green there. Merry Christmas and wonderful you are feeling better Mary. Thank you for the chance of a win. Helen
Green is my favorite color so I would say red, yellow and green is my holidays colors of choice……….its a Rasta Christmas!
Hi Mary, I love Christmas in all it’s colours, but I do like to see things ‘themed’. So, for example, my Christmas tree is soft coppers, silver and teal (it looks better than it sounds!) but my kitchen is Scandinavian reds and wooden ornaments. Best of all, I love the sparklies! And lots of fairy lights.
Thank you for the lovely thread offer – it would make a lovely ornament shown off in a glass bowl!
Hi Mary,
My favourite colours for Christmas are Silver, Powder Blue, Green and Red… I love the blue and silver combination more than the red and green.
Regards,
Rose Mary
Unique definitely! Mixed colours like mango, green, red, orange, purple. I have loved varigated colours since I was a child. They were very different then. I just love the combinations available today. I am from the southern hemisphere so my year end is in the hot weather.
I like red, green and white. I always stitch with these three colors for christmas. Thanks for the giveaway.
Hello,
I love colors! My Christmas color theme has changed several time over the years but lately I have been going back to my favorite: bright red, velvety green and sparkling white.
Sylvie
Wow! Beautiful threads!
My favorite colours for Christmas are pink, orange and red. I know they can seem more autumnal than Christmassy, but actually they work very well with the green and brown of the tree. They give a very warm and cheerful feeling to the whole house!
True bright red and green. I love anything Christmas
I must admit that I don’t routinely decorate for Christmas, only when there will be company. So I alternate between the traditional red and green but have learned to love the blues and white.
I like traditional colours – red, green and gold.
I like burgundy and hunter green for my colors for Christmas.
I love the Christmas colors of old Victorian style…pine green and rich burgundy!
Deb
In Australia
We have summer in Christmas time
Average temp in Queensland. ( my state , think a down under version of Hawaii 35 degrees Celsius on a mild day )
So the wonderful Christmas colours of a northern winter are amazing and totally not what we get to enjoy
Except in our stitching
I love blues and silver and whites for Christmas they remind me of snowy blue skies and sparkling fresh snow iced to tree branches, on a crisp winter morning.
For Christmas colors I really gravitate to the traditional red and green, however this has primarily to do with my collection of vintage Christmas. In particular I love antique tree lighting. I have one tree dedicated to vintage Christmas lights from Edison bulbs, to whirl Glo shades, figural light bulbs, bubble lights, and (my favorite) matchless stars. Though in the case of this thread I think I’d deviate a bit and go with the burgundy and green threads. They’d go wonderful on a crazy quilt I’m working on!
My favorite Christmas colors are the traditional red and green. Also like a lot of golds with it.
I love to use Christmas red with bright silver for a slightly different tone. Of course greens are in there too
My Christmas colours have always been the traditional red and green until my daughter decided she would decorate for me last year and my tree was all burgundy, gold, red, bronze and purple. It was gorgeous, so now she has the job of doing my decorating every year!
For the holidays I love cranberry with dark greens with touches of gold.
Lorraine’s threads are the adult version of a kid being allowed in the most fantastic candy store in the world!
My Christmas color scheme is lime green and hot pink – very contempory.
Loralee Clark
I like pale blue, evergreen, Holly berry red, and mistletoe cream because it combines all of winter’s palate.
Thanks for the chance!
Most of my decorations are traditional red and green with gold for sparkle but recent additions include pale blue and silver.
Smiles and good morning! Such a fun and interesting question to think about favorite colors of the holiday season — while I do love the sophistication of silver and blue, I revel in a warm, luscious, vibrant red, especially when the weather is cold; when I painted in watercolors, I’d paint cool seascapes in the summers, but in the winters, I’d paint pictures of colanders full of bright red and yellow tomatoes, to get me thru the colorless winter months. My favorite Christmas tree trimming was one year when I put a collection of small stuffed animals on the branches along with red bows — so warm ochre/golden tan color and deep red on those deep green fir needles just might be my favorite color memory — but then, who can resist that glorious true Christmas green – that straight-up-the-middle-not yellow’d-not-blue’d-gorgeous-I’m-my-own-color Green. And, of course, gold, splashy, flashy gold — and then there’s the outdoors house lights — I wish we’d all leave them up all year! Smiles, thanks for asking — how fun to think of all those lovely colors.
Luxuriously beautiful
While I love the silver and blue Christmas color way, it looks out of place here in Virginia. We don’t have the white snow that color scheme really needs to shine. Green and red look much better as accents against the usual natural palette of greys and browns.
I find it hard to choose between red, green and gold, blue and silver or purple with either gold or silver. They all shout the festive season. Looking at the Colour Complements site there are some beautiful combinations that I have not thought of using.
I like white and glitter…can NEVER have too much glitter! My son says “It’s a given that he’s going to have his pants glitter when he comes home at Christmas!”
I’m a cranberry/ hunter or dark green person when it comes to Christmas. Maybe a little solver thrown in now and then for sparkle!
Just take a look at Lorraine’s “Sampler #1” — those greens are just the perfect reflections of the best Christmas colors — like a lovely mix of all the gorgeous greens that are exactly right for Christmas. A mix of greens, just like mixing pine, holly, juniper and mistletoe, really say Christmas to me.
I like the traditional Christmas colors, but I also love the icy blue and silver combo.
Thanks for the chance to win some of Lorraines threads!!
Carol in Northern Indiana
My favorite holiday colors are deep red and light grey. I like the total contrast and the way they will make the other one come to life. The Grey is quiet but with the deep red it has a chance to shine!!
Hi Mary,
What a great give-a-way and a wonderful opportunity for someone to try Lorriane’s beautiful threads. I used them to stitch my ornaments last year and absolutely love them! My favorite Christmas colors are burgundy, forest green and gold.
Thank you
Mary, I love your and all your great tips. Thank you for all you do for us. I love all
color schemes. I decorate my tree with birds and nests. Everything in the rest of the
house is all colors because my theme is not a certain color, but managers. I do puzzles, books, managers, manager pictures, manager chair covers, manager towels,
manager placemats, manager quilts, manager wall hangings, manager wreaths. They all look great no matter what the color scheme. I have a open house and everyone is amazed at the look.
I love bright Christmas red, sprinkled with golden threads and just a dash of bright green here and there…red being my favorite color with lime green coming in second and very bright colors third and black/white with an accent fourth…
Joyfully yours
Dianne (aka joyfroggie)
What a great idea to showcase fibers for the contest. Lorraine’s fibers are beautiful! I am partial to traditional reds and greens for Christmas, but I love anything that sparkles! Thanks for the opportunity!
My favorite vintercolours are the frosty cotton tread. White, light blue and turquise mixhed with silver reminds me of Winter.
Kind regards
Jette Sauerberg
Hi Mary, I have traditionally decked the halls with the reds and green theme in the past but over the last couple of years have alternated with the blue ,white,silver theme . I love this theme as it seems more appropriate to display my needlework and quilting projects longer into those wintery months! Thanks always for all you do for us! Happy Holidays!
I prefer blue and silver for the Christmas holidays. I’m not a fan or either red or green (sorry Christmas, Valentines Day and St Patricks Day). My tree even has white lights and blue and silver balls.
I love stitching but need to get out of my DMC rut.
When I stitched my first stitch in 1968 we had only floss, Paternayan wool or some other inferior thread.
TODAY we have all of these gorgeous threads and colors. What fun it is to create with our needle and thread. Love your web. Have a very Happy Holiday .
I change every decade or so to experiment with color but always go back to red and green,
You have the best give aways Mary–Thank You! My favorite holiday colors have changed over time. Traditonal red & green morphed into antique red/green, then gold. Finally–call me lazy about putting away decorations–I’m currently in love with white/pale blue/silver. Those colors look great, day or evening. Icy colors show up particularly well & the silver twinkles in low light/firelight. The best part is that icy-toned decor doesn’t look terribly out of place as winter deepens into February, allowing me more stitching time! It’s a lot of work to put up/take down/store decorations so this color scheme is more flexible.
I really love a blue and silver color theme at Christmas, but I also like lime green and pink for a very modern whimsical look.
Stunning threads! I love different colors for Christmas – purples, turquoise and silver.
love the number 12 threads to work with wool. i would love to try the velvets they would enhance the woolwork beautifully. i like traditional red and green for my christmas decor but recently went out on a limb with the bright lime green and red combo
Shades of blue-purples with white and silver… a pale ice pink for just a touch of warmth. But really, this time of year, the colors don’t matter — it’s the shades of kindness that count. Your website continues to be a daily destination I look forward to!
I love bold colors and don’t care to venture too far for the most part. Remember that first box of 8 crayons? That is my favorite palette all year long. For the Christmas Season I’m a red and green fan. Bold and traditionally Christmas. It’s all you need for Santas and trees. Festive, cheerful, and traditional. Maryann
I am very much a traditional green, red and gold Christmas decorator. I do like some of the newer combinations of colors, the pale blues and silver but after 20+ years of collecting Christmas decorations it’s cheaper to stick with the traditional.
All the colors! It tends to lean more towards red and green with some silver, and a little blue, but I love a colorful Christmas tree.
My favorite Christmas colors are deep red and gold as used in traditional church embroidery. But, on saying that, I think I might just have new favorites as I love the look of the green and burgundy threads! My very first embroidery project was a sampler done in red and green when I was 8 years old, so I actually started my needlework career in traditional Christmas colors. My grandma worked at the 5 and dime store and bought me the kit which started my obsession with needlework. I have the sampler put away in a drawer and I get it out every once in a while, just to marvel at how much improvement I have made since then.
I like the dark red and green colors best for Christmas, with plenty of white and gold to highlight the feast as well! Thank you!
My favourite colours for Christmas/Winter are an earthy dark red and frosty white with silver streaks everywhere!
I love anything pink and green. My favorite colors together or separately. Being new to the art. Winning this beautiful thread would go a long way to get my creativity blooming. I usually go for unique colors that are not the norm. However once I see pink and green together, any other color combination I am leaning towards, goes out the window so to speak.
While I am a red/green traditionalist about Christmas decorations, I do love a silver and white winter scheme.
While I love Christmas, I tend to minimize the traditional red/green color schemes because I find them more limited seasonally. I prefer shades of blue/white/silver for decorating because I can use them all winter long. I will also throw in some purple and gold on occasion. Black adds drama, if used in small doses. HA! It would have been faster to say I use everything except brown, yellow and orange! (They just got their turn.)
The over-dyed threads look so exciting. Thank you for sharing inspiration and fun things with us!
Yummy….have a project in mind after the holidays and these creations would be so exquisite to work with.
I love Lorraine’s threads and the color lengths in them. I’ve discovered that the bright red and green work best in my stitching. They give me a sparkle in whatever project I’m working on. Mostly, I love the greens. Barbara Warner
I’m a deep burgundy & gold girl. Those colors evoke old fashioned Christmas for me. But I’m also a freak for ANY threads to work with. A collection of threads in these colors would be like receiving gold, frankincense and myrrh for the holidays!
I love Christmas decorations in all colour combinations. I adore pink/turquoise themed decorations, but when it comes to my favourite combo, I’m truly traditional and choose red and green. The vibrant green of a gorgeous smelling tree is the best this time of year with lovely red decorations of shiny balls and pretty bows adorning the limbs.
My favorite Christmas colors are burgundy and bold, although I also love the traditional red and green too!
After decorating for Christmas for many years in bright red and forest green I’ve recently been drawn to shades of brick red and darker grass or leaf greens. My deviation from tradition may have been due to a quilted table runner I made from a Laurel Burch Christmas stripe in a variety of many shades except red and green!
My favorite holiday colors are icy cold blues, white and silver. This combinations brings the
clear, crisp, fresh, festive holiday season to mind.
Over the years our decor has been the traditional red and green with accent of gold in the ribbons or bows. The colors of the lights is what have changed over the years. Some years they were multi colors others just the white colors.
But I’m thinking it may be time for a change.
Chantal F.
My favorite Christmas colors are icy blues and whites. Maybe throw in a little silver for sparkle!
I love traditional red, green and gold and all shades of them.
I think it changes from time to time but for the last couple of years I have really tended toward blue and silver. Snowflakes and stars in the night sky are the things I think of when I see these colors, both of which put me in the holiday spirit. 🙂
I’ve always had a dark purple/silver theme for Christmas but I’ve thought of changing it up lately. Something more earthy, like bronze and brown.
I love the warm feeling from coppery tones along with maybe a soft green
With a Christmas day birthday I’m a traditional Red and Green person even though I have been tempted at times to wander into the Blues and Silver or even the Ice Blue and White. I love color and am fascinated by the effects that can be created with a needle and thread.
To me, Christmas means snow on the pine trees, Holly berry, and holiday traditions. And the colors that I associate with Christmas are red, green, silver, gold, and white. Red Cardinals, green Pine boughs, white snow men, and all the pretty glittery things hanging from the tree, icicles.
If I was starting from scratch, I suppose I would choose a frosty blue, white and silver combo. However, I am such a sentimental person, looking forward to seeing decorations full of memories, I stick mostly with traditional Christmas colors with gold accent. And each year as I look at pieces I have had since my children were small, ornaments given to me by past students, special pieces handmade by friends and family, I take great pleasure in the traditions and memories.
I love the colour red, and I wear a lot of it. When I shop for clothes, yarn, thread or anything else, I’m like a hummingbird heading for the red feeder!
For the Christmas season, I love burgundy and gold, a more sophisticated red with a delightful companion.
Thank you for the giveaway !
Hi Mary,
I guess I’m pretty traditional when it comes to Christmas colors – I like red, green, blue, and gold. But I find I’m drawn to greens that are either towards a lime green hue or a darker forest green. And I like my reds in more of a burgundy shade and the blues to be rich and dark. I have some ribbon in those colors that I wrap around the tree and garlands on the mantle and stairs.
Love the colors on this thread! Thank you for this great giveaway! Would love to work with these threads.
Have a super great stitching day!!
Christmas colors to me imply clear sharp colors. With the leaves off the trees the sun makes everything to me look more brilliant. For example just looking up at a clear blue sky the color blue seem endless. Than add the tips of the trees lying on top of the blue, it’s like one could take a sharpie pen and trace the outline of the branches right into the sky or just sit on top of a passing fluffy cloud. When the sky is brilliant it makes everything else look expansive, especially after an ice storm and the trees are just covered with ice and the sun is glistening off the ice making a winter wonderland effect. Another image I love and I guess it’s because I live in New England is a clear sharp red of a cardnial sitting in a tree against fresh falling snow. So I guess Christmas colors to me ring out the true heart and soul of all colors.
Hi Mary- I´m the conservative green/red/gold type. It´s very handy because every year I add on a few new pieces and get to re-use the old decorations. And the red really livens up the house! Keep well.
Green, white and silver with flashes of red from my favourite flower of my home country – the flame lily or the gloriosa superba which comes out at Christmas time.
The colors of Christmas I take from nature, white snow and blue sky with just a little silver for sparkle. Thank you for all you do for us.
“Evergreen” greens for me–spruce, fir, hemlock, pine, rhododendron, mt. laurel, ground pine, rosemary, Christmas cactus, holly, cedar, arborvitae–with berries of mt. holly, bittersweet, snowberry. Little twinkly lights like stars.
Winter colors? My favorite has to be red standstone, juniper green, sage grey-green of rabbit brush, and snowy white. For several years, my kids and I spent winter holidays in Moab, UT. It is a lovely time to visit – quiet and cool. The pictures of the red rocks, bright evergreen trees, and soft grey-green bushes topped with a skiff of snow have always been some of my favorites.
I have always liked the whites and blues. Very simple, yet enough to give a bit of sparkle.
I’m Jewish, so this time of year I love the blues and whites and silver. Chanukah can fall any time from the end of November to the end of December, but mostly it’s in December. Everything is colorful, the candles and the table settings, but the main colors are blue, white and silver. These are the colors that I look forward to seeing!
What a lovely giveaway. So hard to pick my favorite winter colors! Right now I’m loving shades of green and silver. Also like the greenish reddish colors of female cardinals which I see around the birdfeeder in the winter, so visible now with leaves down on the trees.
I’m pretty traditional in my Christmas colors – darker rather than bright though: red, green and gold.
First I love variegated threads. The new color waves are fantastic. They not only shade nicely but they are
great for landscapes.
My home décor style is “traditional furniture” . I love burgundy and gold. This is the direction my decorations take throughout my house. Even my wrapping papers have a burgundy/gold motif. However I also use the traditional Red/Green in my quilting and holiday gifts. I also love turquoise and lime green when I do my needlework. Melting shades of purple draw my eye when I am fortunate enough to encounter
a vendor at a Quilt show that carries purle cotton threads. Like most of us I just love yarns and threads and ribbons, etc. etc. etc.
My favorites are fascia and chartreuse (which my grandmother always had her tree lighted with)
My favorite colors associated with Christmas and the holidays are shades of green. The various shades of green remind me of growth and life for the new year that is coming. A new start or new beginning for the future. The colors of green whether solid or blended together gives me “feeling” of the new birth of my project. Various textures and sizes of the thread remind me that life is not always a smooth journey. The “downs” help me appreciate the “ups”. My stitches will be around after I am gone and my hope is that my granddaughters will look at each stitch and think of the time well spent on something that is handmade and not electronic.
I am a bright red and green color Christmas person.
I enjoy your newsletter very much.
Thank you
My favorite Christmas season colors are deep red and deep green…traditional, but with an old-fashioned twist.
I’m a white-blue-silver person. Makes me think of icy landscapes.
I love the icy blues and whites of winter…I was actually looking for ideas on how to embroider a snowflake when I stumbled across Mary Corbet and Needle n Thread. Currently I’m writing this comment and have the video playing in the back ground. Embroidery is something I have done on and off since I was a little girl. I’m terrible, but practicing to get better!
I’m very excited to start practicing some of the techniques I’m learning from your website and video’s.
The traditional red and green are my colors for Christmas.
I love the deep colors, burgundy and deep green. But you need contrasts so all shades are beautiful. I love silver and gold too, alright, I love blue too (as a wintery color, not for Christmas). lol
beautiful threads great colours and a variety of choice, Christmas range of bright reds and greens add a little of the frosty threads to give sparkle, also love the blues and golds
Bright red & green interspersed with beautiful glittering gold just screams Christmas for me. Throw in some lovely native Australian foliage in its various shades of green, mixed with red berries and/or flowers, tied up with gorgeous Xmas ribbon for a magical table setting.
Merry Christmas!
I love the normal red and green for Christmas, but I will take on the blues, silvers and gold around my angels. It depends on what I am working with. I have about 60 houses I put out all along my wall in my family room or my work room. Here is use the red and greens on table and etc. The front room has the angels and etc. so I have different colors in different areas. I love Christmas. I work with over dyes all the time for flowers, table runners and etc. I just love to stitch with different colors and I don’t get bored stitching all the time. Happy Holidays and thanks for your work.
Deb Puma
My favorite Christmas colors are burgandy, winter white & metallic gold. Very classy!
I’m normally a bit of a traditionalist with reds and greens but I prefer the more vibrant, jewel tone reds and greens. On the other hand, I saw some lovely turquoise-based holiday fabrics in a quilt shop today that were fun! I’m a big fan of Colour Complements threads so thank you for this giveaway!
My favorite Christmas colors match my home decor – terra-cotta red and shades of olive green. With gold accents.
Btw – love all of your instructional videos and tutorials on your website!
I really trench for the traditional red and green although I do like a combination of gold and silver for Sparkle.
For me, it is the trio of green, red and gold that brings on the best memories. My grandma’s tree always had red globes and gold garlands, along with lovely wooden ornaments. Or sometimes, she would put up a garland of red wooden beads and handmade bird ornaments of different golds, greens, and red. We always made sugar cookies during the holidays, and those were her favorite colors to decorate them with. That is where I first picked up my love for stitching, because of those birds. She taught me how to embroider making my own ornaments. Those are some of my fondest holiday memories!
I’m a traditional red and green kinda gal.
I’m a traditional red and green lover although I do like to add sparkle!
For Christmas I am more or less a tradionalist with a red and agreed theme. The only thing different is I go for the Burgundy colors of red and the forest colors of green. I would love to win the giveaway and try this thread. Because of the cost I don’t get to buy some of the beautiful threads out there. Although I have followed. Mary’s advice and saved for a better thread instead of an inferior thread when I worked so hard on a project. Thank you
Karol
Luscious colours in these threads….actually perfect colours for me! You asked for favourite colours for Christmas and I have to say that mine are those that you see in the cartoon version of ‘The Grinch’. My actual decorating is done much more traditionally than that (think more in terms of Charlie Brown), but if I had a do-over of my decorations it would be The Grinch all the way
As usual, I am way out of step with the times – the whole vintage turquoise and cherry red Christmas.
I love the deep greens, burgundy reds, and rich golds of a bygone age!
Oh I do love the grass-green with the dark purplish reds. On more courageous days I do like pale blues, whites and silver with a splash of bright red 🙂
White and Blues are my winter colors…..pristine cold, crisp, brilliant white snow with blue shadows- periwinkle blue, indigo blue, midnight blue, cobalt blue, slate blue, bluejay blue, blueberry blue, violet blue, lavender blue……yes, white and blues…..
When it comes to Christmas, I’m a die-hard traditionalist – I adore the rich combination of gold, red and green. That said, I also really like the frosty look of blue, white and silver. It depends on what it’s for and where I’m putting it. 🙂
I love your teaching and needlework.
Hi Mary.
I’m a classic Christmas gal for red and green with a bit of gold glitz 🙂 Thank you and Colour Complements for a lovely give-a-way.
My new favourite winter season colour combo is icy blue, mint green and a deep fir green, ideally with a silver sparkle too.
Your Christmas give away is just great. It would work just great for the holidays. Thank-you for all your hard work on your web site. Your question was what is your
favorite colors for Christmas? We live in the North Woods of Wisconsin, so my
Christmas colors tend to be more rustic. I Like white, my crocheted angels and snow-flakes. Then the reds and greens of holly and pine garlands. And then the natural color of brown that the pine cones are. And last but not least, I like the blue, yellow
and silver of the glass balls, with the multi-colored twinkle lights. For next year I hope to add a Christmas themed embroidered table cloth. Thanks again for the neat give a way.
Greetings. I think I’d have to go with blue and silver. Our winters are wet and grey so these remind me of snow and ice.
I tend to go with red & green but am trying to branch out to more wild colors for Christmas. Thank you
I think I am mostly a soft color pastels person as I always seem to head for those colors and fabrics first, but Christmas red and green are such traditional favorites, and burgundy and teal go so well, how can I really choose just one! Orange is my least favorite, though.
These are such beautiful colours. I really like the burgundy & green sampler. “Edible” ….like lovely fruit. Such as dark red apples & lime green grapes etc. With just a touch of sparkle for the magic touch. I just love it.
Oddly enough, my family and I were just talking about our favorite Christmas color schemes earlier today. My favorite is white and silver and gold. Everyone else in this household prefers red and green.
I guess I am old fashioned because I lean to reds and reds with gold and reds with silver. Maybe because that I also wear a lot of reds. It’s the season that is important, not the color!!!
The Green and burgundy threads are lovely. Just add some gold for glitter and you have the perfect combination not only for christmas but think of colourful trees. beautiful.
I am usually not a fan of red, but I love it during the Christmas season, especially cardinals.
My favorite Christmas colors are the traditional red and green. Of course, burgundy and green is especially nice. Thank you for hosting this giv-a-way.
My Fave color for the season is……..YELLOW!. Why you ask. Well living in the Pacific Northwest it’s always grey. Grey skies, grey days grey rain…so one can get depressed if one lets herself get that way. But I say NO! Xmas is coming, a happy time of year, so let us use yellow, the color of good cheer.
And Merry Christmas to all.
When I think of Christmas colors, I normally think of greens and reds, but the pinks and cranberry and greens in your give-away are such a beautiful combination. They are, in fact, my 8-year granddaughter’s favorite colors and since over the past several years we have traditionally designed and stitched ornaments to enter at our local needlework shop’s ornament exchange (held last Sunday), I would love being the recipient of your give-away only so that I might give them to her to use in her design for next year’s ornament exchange entry.
Christmas is a time of rich colors for me, Burgundy, Silver, Gold, Forest Green. I just love to decorate with these colors and also use them in clothing and accessories.
Guess I’m a traditionalist…I love red and green with a bit of gold for elegance.
Thank you for this fun give-away! Since I equate snow with Christmas and winter, I like the icy blues, grays, and whites along with pops of the traditional red and green.
Hi Mary,
At Christmas time I like combinations with white, red and white, blue and white, silver and white etc. Despite the fact that we have Christmas in summer in Australia and the colours around at the moment are definatly not wintery I still like the white combinations.
Thanks
I love the traditional red and green of Christmas. But for the winter holidays in general I love the ice blue tones and silvers.
I love whites, silvers and blues for Christmas/winter, accented with a little lavender and rose.
Greens and golds are one of my favorite color schemes. I just finished your pomegranate pattern on a tablecloth and napkins done in shades of green and gold. It turned out beautifully. I have 2 art shows coming up that will be showing my paper making and book arts pieces. I incorporated embroidery in several pieces to good effect. But, there is so much more to learn.
I am a tradional red, green and gold person when it comes to Christmas decorations etc. Although I am very much a blue lover generally I just can’t bring myselft to introduce those colours into my Christmas colour scheme.
Catherine – celebrating Christmas in summer
I really like purples and rich greens. What a great giveaway!
Blue and white are my favorite color combinations for Christmas and winter. Blue for the bright blue sky and white for the landscape after a new snow fall.
icy blues and whites with a touch of sparkle….. and I’d love the chance to try some of colour complements blends… so pretty…. 162 in particular!
Ooh, because I’m a southern hemisphere girl I’m a little conflicted. On the one hand, rich colours like burgundy, deep purple and gold say Christmas to me, but it’s such a hot summery time of year at the same time I can’t go past bright colours like hot pink, orange and bright green!
In everyday life I love soft muted colours, (pale pink and celadon green are always winners!) For some reason though I love really dark colours in bedroom decor – burgundy, purple brown etc.
For xmas a combination I got interested in a few years ago is silver and lilac, with pale pink and pale blue as accents. It’s a winner!
As much as I love the traditional red & green for Christmas, I do love the blue / white / silver combo, especially a robin’s egg blue background with silvery white snowflakes. I guess it reminds me of crisp, cold, clear winter days here in Saskatchewan where beautiful hoarfrost coats the tree branches and the snow sparkles in the bright sunlight like a million diamonds scattered all over the ground.
So hard to pick fav xmas colours! I would have to go with traditional red, gold and green, but others call to me also…thank-you for the give away!
Hi Mary from OZ, I think of myself as a tradionalist with my Christmas decorations &
love the red & green with a bit of gold for sparkle. Being the summer here the green seems a cooler colour if we are having a really hot day.
Love the website & all your great tips @ info . Happy Christmas from Australia. Doreen.
I love Christmas, and I love a white tree that looks like it’s covered with snow. Then lots of soft pink ornaments. Add silver and pale green. Dim lit white lights. All the presents wrapped in brown shipping paper with gorgeous wide wire ribbon of gorgeous pink. I love you site. Just found it today. I wish I knew everything you know about embroidery. I recently finished a sunglasses case in faded 100% cotton denim. Had assortment of pot plants and gorgeous flowers of every kind and color. The text was….. Friends are the flowers in my Garden. I know I need more practice on my Text! Thank you.
In our house we celebrate Yule rather than Christmas. My favorite colors to decorate with are purple and gold: purple for the winter sky and gold for those rare bursts of sunlight.
I am definitely a Christmas Red, Green and Gold kind of person when it comes to Christmas; but living in South Africa when it’s 33 degrees celsius at Christmas maybe a few cool sea greens, blues and yellows would go down well too.
I have to say that I love blue and silver… lots of contrast and shine.
For the holiday season, I like forest green and deep red as decoration, but also love to mix in some black and gold as well. Gold for the King. Black for the long nights and the darkness that was conquered by the king.
I don’t have to have symbolic reasons for liking colors, but in this case I like the meaning. Makes me thoughtful.
The colors I trend toward are the icy blues and teals with white “sprinkles”. The reds and greens are beautiful, but now, in my later years, I’m sticking with the colors I love (throw in a mauve and I’m one happy person)!!
Happy Holidays Mary!
I am a traditional Christmas red and green guy. On our dreary, dark winter days working with red and green thread on a white background just cheers me up no end. I can dream of hot, sunny summer days to come and enjoy this festive season as well. Santa red and Christmas tree green, a perfect combination.
My first thought is red and green + gold, but I realise that I also like a lot of other colours like blue, gray and silver or purples and greens, or make a yet unknown choice of the materials available because I like to (re)use materials.
The traditional red and green, because of a tablecloth I have which was made by my mother. It is dark green netting with large sequined and beaded pointsettas all along the bottom edge.
I really love burgundy and cream, burgundy is such a rich colour, the colour of mulled wine and cream is very calming. Combined they are rich, elegant and remind me of Christmases past.
I don’t like traditional red and green, I prefer a burgundy. green and gold scheme. it is so much richer vicki miller from australia
For my tree, I’m an “all colors and every style of ornament” girl, and I guess that carries over into my Christmas colors likes. I tend however to stick with the rich deep reds, greens, golds and royal blues in my stitching. Having said that I love the thread palette pictured in your message.
Thank you for such a wonderful give-away! My favorite Christmas colors are burgandy red, a deep green and a burnished gold. I like the “old-fashioned” Christmas colors because they have a very rich feel.
I’m a green and Red personne, I add a gold color for sparkle. I collectionne many threads of different texture and #.
I use a lot of color when I embroider. I love purple and green. For Christmas I usually stay with bright reds and greens. All of your embroidery is very colorful and that is what I love when embroidering.
Nora
I love using primitive colors – reds and greens but in a muted tone, the sort you can get by tea-dying a piece. I’ve done Christmas pillows and hangings on natural-toned linens. My second favorite would probably be blue and silver – which fits with the Advent colors we use in our church.
Love Christmas colors! And anything fall colors as well.
My holiday color choices would be blue and silver complimented by icy blues and whites and iridescent tones. Overall I love jewel tones for most of my work because they add a deep richness that enhances almost everything.
Hi Mary,
Many years ago I worked retail, in preparation for Christmas we would decorate up to 40 trees with different themes and color arrays. They were all beautiful but if I were to choose my favorite of all it would be a tree decorated in gold and red. For me, gold and red bring to mind regal, like a robe one of the wise men would have worn.
Thank you.
Jean
At Christmas-time I love the traditional bright red and green with the sparkle of gold thrown in. My Christmas tree is always decorated with the same decorations in mainly red and gold (with other colours thrown in) with the same decorations collected of the past 35 years. We always try to collect something new to add to it each year when we travel, this year it’s a seashell decoration from Sanibel Island in Florida.
Oh, my gosh. What a wonderful thing this is. Very groovy of you – VERY groovy.
I don’t really have one set colorway for the Christmas holidays; my selection changes year by year. In fact, when the boys were little, we would discuss how we wanted to decorate the tree by choosing colors for ornaments and wrapping paper a year in advance. One year was a funky black and white theme, and the next was a traditional red and green with silver and gold highlights.
I make stockings using Crazy Quilting (mostly), although I have been known to construct them with small quilt blocks in various patterns. If a person orders red, black, and gold, then I use their color scheme. Blue and silver? No problem. Purple and green? Far out! Why should Christmas be limited to a common or static color scheme? God didn’t create two or three colors, so I am going to use them ALL! Life is too beautiful to limit yourself.
Those threads you are offering are as beautiful as your heart. Thanks for the opportunity for this give-away.
Peace out and happy holiday ~
Pink and silver — Goes with my pink tinsel tree!
I love the the traditional red and greens, but I like to mix in bright white, purple, hot pink, turquoise, magenta. teal. As long as they are bright.
Silver and blue!
Wow, I love these threads! As for Holiday colors, I love red and green, with a touch of gold. Thanks for the opportunity to win these beautiful threads!
Jennie Storch
Huntington, WV
My favorite holiday color combo is a rich Limoges Blue and Pure white. I love the combination and all the blendable shades between for sky, snow, water, iced and jewels.
I love Halloween colors… oranges, purples, blacks, grays…
anything for pumpkins, goblins, witches, ghosts and spooky houses.
Hi Mary. I’m very traditional with Christmas so green and red are my favourites but also some gold to add brightness is welcome.
Thanks a lot for such a wonderfull blog. I’m a beginner in this thrilling world of stichers, and I’m learning a lot thanks to you.
I love all shades of green with burgundy and frosty white accents! Those are colors im drawn to, but I have to admit that there are many beautiful color combinations for the holiday season.
I love the bright pinks, oranges, and variegated color ways!!!
I have grown to love the colors white, silver, blues, and purples during Christmas time. I grew up in Canada and miss the deep snow, thick frost, and stark cold. These colors remind me of it all. That burgundy is very beautiful that you showed.
I’m not a fan of red and green togethr and i don’t much like gold. I like silver and blue and other contenporary pallets like pink amd lime green
I like a little traditional red and green with a lot of gold and silver.
Traditional colors of red and green are my favorite for Christmas.
Hi Mary, my favorite Christmas colors are traditional reds and greens but with a frosty glint. Also love reds and greens shaded to deep country richness. Let’s face it, I like All shades & tints of red and green!! Thanks for the give-a-ways. Always fun to read others entries. Merry Christmas….xoxo Karen
I really like a Scandinavian red and white with natural wood, pine cones and raffia.
Red and green mean Christmas to me, with perhaps a little bit of silver or gold mixed in for a bit of sparkle!
My favorite colors for Christmas are purple and green. Green, of course, is a traditional Christmas color. Purple, not so much. I like to combine my 2 colors with silver and/or gold for Christmas projects.
Hi,
I’m not so sure about specifically Christmas or winter holiday colours (incidentally it’s summer here), but my favourite colour combinations are greens and purples for any time.
I would love to be one of those disciplined people who can stay with a set colour scheme for their Christmas decor. Mine is a hotch potch of colour and styles with every colour of the rainbow and some decorations that are beginning to look a bit scruffy. Every year some of the grandchildren come over to decorate the tree and every year they love to hear the story about who made the ornament or where we bought it ( We even have a Christmas cat from a Californian cat shop!). So my tree and decorations are bright and cheerful – a bit like Christmas here in the sunshine.
Blue and silver have been particular holiday favorites of mine for many years, but I notice I’m pulling toward some new color combinations. Lately, I’m loving deep purple with copper accents — purple plums with copper acorns and icicles will go on my tree this year.
Wow, hard question! I’d have to say my favorite Christmas colors are bright red with an olive-y green. I’m not a fan of the traditional Christmas green, and I’m not that much of a fan of burgundy. A while back, Alexander Henry had a gorgeous Christmas fabric with these colors: two shades of bright red, two shades of olive-y green, two shades of aqua, and a smattering of yellow and gray. Sounds busy, but it’s beautiful and has great “depth”.
Thought I was a traditionalist until I got the Emie Bishop hardanger ornament patterns in blue, white and silver. Now I’m in love with that color scheme. Thank you for the nice giveaway opportunity.
I have found that the more colors that are used, the more definition it creates in the project you are working on. As for myself, I love all colors. My favorites for Christmas are jewel and metal colors wich really make a statement. Gold, emerald, amber, silver, ruby red, bronze, platinum and amethyst. These colors compliment each other very well and draw the eye to them when you walk into a room.
Hi Mary, I love the Christmas season and my favorite colors for the season are Cranberry and Gold kind of like the colors in embroidery floss #5. It makes me think of stringing cranberries and popcorn on an old fashioned Christmas tree with a golden star at the top.
In Christ,
Gail Jones
Favorite colour??? Too funny. Christmas is all colours. There are myriad shades of green in a tree and every berry is a different red – from burgundy to Chinese red. There is the golden brown of a roasted turkey and the rich chocolate brown of walnut fudge. And when it comes to embroidery and decorating, well, my favorite colour depends on my mood at the moment. When we’re having a party, I like traditional bright cherry red and Kelly green. When stitching for my church it’s the purple and gold of Advent and the white and gold of the Crismons. Oh…and when they asked we put our house on the Christmas tour, I made table runners and chair covers for the dining room in luscious shades of plum and green and gold. But the kitchen, why it needed towels and placemats with white and shades of blue all trimmed in shimmering silver. Then I decided to do something more chipper and modern to go with the homemade bread we’re giving our friends this year, so I embroidered bread towels in the currently popular shades of turquoise, red, and 1940s green. So what is my “favorite” Christmas colour combination? Well, it’s whatever strikes me at the moment for the particular project. Christmas is all about colour….colour and friends and food and sharing and giving. And ALL the colours warm the cockles of my itty bitty heart. Smile.
The colours that I prefer are the reds and gold with pine greens. I like the warmer tones of the colour spectrum. But I tend to choose teals when I am choosing clothes for myself!
My favorite Christmas colors are traditional red, green and white with gold accents.
Boy howdy! Where to begin? I love red& white, it’s bold, it has energy, it’s crisp. Then again, I love white with icy blue, it’s crisp too, but understated, it feels wintery. I also really like color schemes that are just off from traditional red and green, like red, lime green & aqua blue, or pink & green. To me they are like that favorite aunt that never misses church, but will make you giggle right in the middle of services, stalwart, but unpredictable and fun! I’m not good with choosing colors myself, but I love to see what others come up with! As a matter of fact, I think it would be fun to have a small pattern that we all have, say, 3 months to finish. Everyone chooses their own colors and stitches and let’s see what we all come up with!
I have waivered over the years with my Chritmas colour schemes, but seem to return to the traditional red/green theme, mostly tending towards the rich deep reds and greens with a touch of gold for sparkle. Living in Australia, where we celebrate Christmas in the summer, it is difficult to bring too much white and snowy into our Christmas stitching!
I’m very new to embroidery (just finished a dozen monogrammed handkerchiefs for myself and working on a voided monogram for my granddaughter). For Christmas, I love darker colors, more of a burgundy and a hunter green, than brighter colors, but our Advent table decorations this year are dark blue and gold, inspired by the Advent decorations at church.
I just found this site and I am blown away! So much information, and your stitches are so tidy and precise!
As for Christmas colors…I really love blue and silver together. They’re so crisp and neat. But then I love a pop of orange here and there, and what’s orange without my favorite color purple? And then the green gets added, and yellow, and… Eventually I always end up with no color scheme beyond ALL the colors.
Too much. (And yes, the walls of my home reflect my color ADD (or addiction, whatever) and the majority of rooms have at least 2 different colors on the walls.)
What a lovely give away! The threads look luscious. My favourite colours for the holidays are burgundy and forest green… though many of our family’s time-honoured decorations are the traditional red and green. Room for all!
Christmas colors are such a hard pick because it’s my favorite holiday and I love it all! I’d have to go with burgundy and gold as my favorite combination though. It’s the general color scheme on my tree each year and I love how rich it looks.
I’m a sucker for jewel tones: sapphire, emerald, amethyst, ruby as well as deep teals and burgundies. Yum.
Christmas colours …. I have every colour possible on my tree. I have been collecting ornaments for 38 years now (all my married life) and they are mostly unique, one of a kind type ornaments – tin, wood, hand crafted, some from when I was young that I know have from my parents, stitched, beaded, glass, blown glass, rusted metals, etc. I have over 600 and it takes me almost a week to get them all onto the tree. But I do love some of my other colour coordinated decorations. I have black, silver and white on the garland and wreath at my door with the green of the garland and wreath providing the colour. And I love dark Christmas red paired with forest green – more muted and calm than the bright cherry reds paired with apple greens which I tend to avoid. So no colour schemes or themes. Just a riot of colour and decor.
Christmas coulors! My favorites change all the time; and not only for Christmas. Reds and greens are fine; but I use all the colours, except blacks and browns. Haven’t tried those yet.
Color Complements is a new shop for me. I’m very happy to know about it now! Patricia Cunningham
I use a variety of colors, but burgundy and green are my colors of choice.
For me, the holidays are best represented by a combo of red, green, white, and blue, and their glitter variations.
love the burgundy and gold but also love Christmas traditional red and green – come to think of it also love all shades of blue…and on and on…
My favourite colours are oranges and earthy tones. But for Christmas, I like the traditional red and green. Love the Colour Complements range, the colours are beautiful.
I love icy blues and silver best. But those red cardinals are a joy too.
Chris Marks
Gold and Burgundy are my favourite colours for my Christmas table, however I make a Christmas decoration for my Great Grandaughter every year any I enjoy trying out different colours and sparkly thread.
I love the Christmassy colours of reds (any red as long as its rich in colour) and any green as long as its bright and vibrant. I also love that extra bit of sparkle of silver or gold that brings the embroidery to life.
Im a big lover of the traditional deep reds and purples with golds for warmth and luxury. But im loving the simple vintage colours, and ginghams around at the moment, this year may see a change in the crimbo decorations in our house!
Love the rich combos of the traditional metallics – old gold, shiny silver, warm coppers and rich bronzes.
Hi, I´m a bright Christmas red and green person jejeje. For me, Christmas it’s all about red&green 😉
My favorite Christmas colors are deep red and pine green. My father would get us Flannel Christmas PJs each year and they were always in those colors. And ever since I have seemed to gravitate towards those shades.
I love to have deep red as accents and white lights on the tree. I always stay with traditional touches. They give me comfort and joy!!!!!
My favorite colors are green and gold for holiday colors.
My Christmas colors and decorations have changed since my children are all grown up and have their own families. I now decorate with white, gold and burgundy. These colors seem so peaceful and elegant to me. I might add in another color this year…who knows. I did give my sons all of my old decorations and smile when I see their trees decorated with their childhood things.
Purple & gold has been a go-to for a long time. Blue & silver and pink & silver or pearl white is also great and somehow very festive to me.
I’m have been a burgundy- gold person myself for Christmas, though right now my color theme is peacock – blues, greens, gold and a bit of purple! Such beautiful threads on her website – I drool! Thanks for this give away Mary and Color Complements! 🙂
I just love the bright Christmas red and green colours – warm and cheerful for this time of year ☃
I realy like a misty colourpallet with greyisch greens (or is it greenisch greys) and blues, softwhites, mother of pearl for the hollidays.
But I’m very curious to work with the burgundy/green pallet and the different kind of threads.
My favourite colours at Christmas have to be green, red and silver. I live in England when the time of year is so grey. Bringing in the deep glossy leaves of the holly punctuated by the vibrate red of the berries lifts the house. Add to it the light green of the variegated ivy, the sap green of the mistletoe and silver sprayed allium heads and its magical. Always include a red candle. Christmas from the garden.
My favorite Christmas color is a sparkling white. The color of new fallen sniff snow early in the morning light. I look or my back window and see the world bright and new and pure.
When I think of the holidays, I think of candy, so my main colors are the red and white of peppermint sticks and the colors of the ribbon candy in my grandmother’s candy jar: mostly reds and whites, but sometimes pops of green, yellow, pink, and orange. They still make that ribbon candy, I just looked it up on the internet. It brings back a lot of fun memories to see it again. Thanks for offering this giveaway and giving me back those memories
I love the icy blues with silver. Reminds me of the weather we never get to enjoy here in Santa Clara county
Hallo! I find it hard to choose favourite colours, I like a bit of everything at Christmas – rainbow colours, really, and lots of lights. Also a decent amount of dark wood for decorations. I prefer warm tones to the icy blue and white shades, multicoloured lights, and gold/copper ones.
I cannot pick a set of colors that I like best for Christmas because I love them all. I would say I love the traditional ones the best until I see something splashy and more contemporary. All of them have their place somewhere in the world of stitching. My problem is I don’t have enough time to stitch them all.
So glad I finally signed up for your newsletter. I love it.
I prefer the bright Christmas reds and greens with a bit of gold for sparkle.
I love the combination of white lights and crystal/glass reflections of that light. The shimmery, sparkly radiance of this combination is my favorite Christmas color combination, reflective of the Christmas star shining over baby Jesus’ birthplace.
I’m definitely a deep RED person, not a fan of orange reds but those reds that favor a blue tint.
I suppose I’m a traditionalist since I decorate with red, green, with a bit of gold. At yesterday’s Mass it was explained how red represents the love of God, green represents His everlasting love, and gold ..oops I forgot. 🙂
Upcoming hand surgery leaves me only able to work with pearl cotton. These colors and combinations look lovely. With variegated colors I won’t have to change threads so often. Many thanks for your articles.
I love tradition, so I am basically a red/green person and maybe some blues, golds and purples thrown in for good measure. At Christmas time almost anything goes, but if it is not a traditional holiday piece I would flow into pinks and greens. To be able to try these new threads would be a fun experience and a very welcome gift.
Thanks Mary. You are the greatest.
Tanis
Hello,
I love the reds and golds of Christmas for the traditional feel of it all. They were always the colors I decorated with since I married and started my own traditions.
I wish you a very happy holiday season.
Lori Scic
My favorite colors associated with Christmas? Probably a good “poinsettia red”, strong green, white and gold. Second combo blue/white/silver.
Lorraine’s combo would stir things up a bit for me, to try something a bit more contemporary. I like her eye for color.
Good question!
My favourite colours for Christmas are burgundy, plum and a dark green. Always looking for these colours in fabrics.
My favorite Christmas colors would be deep burgundy and green. Please enter me in the drawing for threads. Thanks. Kay H.
I love the burgundy and green colors. But I have to admit looking at the website, I liked them all! Love the sparkly in this set.
I’m a traditional Red and Green Christmas person, But , I also love Blue and Silver. It would be wonderful to have these beautiful threads. Thank you for the give away.
Blue is the best winter color for me.
For Christmas themes, I like to add metallic threads…either gold or silver. I like gold with greens and reds and silver with blues. Sometimes I will hand weave an accent and attach it to an embroidery or a quilt. I love variegated threads for this and, if holiday themed, will add gold or silver threads. Variegated threads are so versatile.
For years, our color scheme for the tree was red and purple. A few years ago, we changed to spa blue, white and silver. Many of the ornaments have a gorgeous glittery, sparkly, frosty look to them. On our travels, we pick up ornaments as souvenirs, so are always on a look out for touches of the color scheme.
My favourite Christmas colours are red, green and gold.
June Marsh
My favorite Christmas colors are red and white with some silver thrown in just to add sparkle. I am so grateful that you have introduced me to so many various threads that I would have never found without Needle ‘n Thread. Thank you for all your efforts.
Alice McClelland
I love jewel tones. I have one tree that is multi-colored and another that is pearly white and blue with a little lavendar. I love them both for different reasons.
Deep red and green. I love to decorate the house with lots of greenery and add touches of red here and there.
Well I really love turkey red and a dark moss green. They feel both traditional and old fashioned to me. Guess the red reminds me of Santa, holly berries and choir robes. The green reminds me of Christmas trees and wreaths and boughs of holly. I like colors that are not so clear and generally find myself gravitating to colors that are more muted and subtle and natural. You can always add sparkle – just a bit. Merry Christmas!
I love the burgandy and pine green with gold for sparkle! I would love to win the Colour Complements giveaway. Thank you for the chance. I look forward to your newsletter each day!
May I live in your storage room? I’ll work for threads!
I like the assortment of colors in #189; the turquoise, acidy lime, purple and golden rusts play well with evergreens and ivory linens.
Wow – where to start on which colours would be wonderful in a winter wonderland scene. I can see many but the metallic treads would be wonderful as snow and snowflakes. The greens would make gorgeous evergreen trees with a hint of the metallic thread as snow tipped branches. That being said, the colour number I loved are Kreinik 1/16 Ribbon #9 and Kreinik Size 8 Braid #7. So many beautiful shades to choose from…
It’s Christmas Red and bright green for me! Rita Schultz
Lorraine’s color blends are absolutely yummy!
Traditional colors for me. I’ve tried decorating with others but it always feels ‘wrong’.
I love a light blue, pink, red, white and green color scheme for Christmas!
In fact, I have a neon pink Christmas tree!
I am wishy washy about my favorite Christmas colors. One moment I’m sure I only want traditional red and green, until my eyes feast in gold and silvery white. I think the spark sways me.
This year my office building put silver, blue and purple on the trees and decorations and you wouldn’t think it, but it turned out beautifully! It’s somewhere right between traditional and modern in the most perfect way.
I’m a traditionalist when it comes to Christmas colors, it’s red and green with touches of gold. Beautiful threads!
Carol b(cln crs)
My favorite colors for Christmas are white like snow and red like a cardinal!
Actually, I like purple for Christmas colors — rich, bold purple, which was once reserved for royalty only. Now we all can have purple and I like it combined with silver. I think it makes rich looking decorations.
Please enter me in the drawing for the threads. I am a crazy quilter and can never have enough thread
I love dark forest greens and deep burgundy reds with a hint of metallic gold.
So many lovely posts about favorite colors for the holidays.
I enjoy, much to my husband’s annoyance, as many strings of multi-colored lights as I can convince my family to let me put on the tree. Over the many years I’ve considered themed decorations as they are always so beautiful. Yet, when I begin to unwrap all the old ornaments, including those made by my children oh so many years ago, nostalgia takes over and the decorations are as eclectic as ever.
Again, this year we will be away for Xmas. So we are putting up a New Years tree, silver tree with streamers, balloons & noise makers.
I am a blue and silver person. Although I love all colors associated with Christmas, the blues are the ones that call my name!
When it comes to choosing colors for holiday stuff, I tend to gravitate towards the ’50s pinks and minty greens but then when I see someone else’s finished project in classic red and green I always go “Wait, why didn’t I do that?” Then the next holiday project comes along and I go for the crazy non-traditional colors again… I just can’t help myself! 😀
I’m definitely a red and green when it comes to Christmas colors. I just knitted 2 Christmas stockings for our newest members of the house: Dillon a 10 month old black lab and his side-kick, Sadie, a 6 month old Scottie. I decided to make traditional argyle socks for them and chose green for the main color, dark blue for the secondary color and red for the accent. They ended up looking like a Scottish plaid, which in this case, was very appropriate!
Hi, Mary: I have purchased Colour Compliments thread before and been very pleased! I am a pink / pale green sort of person as a preference but enjoy all different different shades. It is so much fun to have an opportunity to play in life and embroidery is for me the BEST way. Thank you once more for your website. Wishing you well, Evelynne
I am a tradional Christmas person. Love the deep reds and greens for my Christmas sewing, but you have opened my eyes to new and wonderful threads!
To me nothing says Christmas like Red, Green and Gold. I suppose this makes me rather traditional. It reminds me of holly berries and mistletoe.
Totally a traditionalist…..just love red and green and then throw in some silver or gold for sparkle…just like the holiday Season!
I am a traditionalist with Christmas colors – bright Christmas reds and greens are my favorites. Probably because Christmas is considered a happy time and the complementary colors of red and green seem to suit the Christmas season. But I also like a bit of silver and blue in with red and green – it gives a peaceful feeling for the season.
I like the deeper colors – burgandy and green are my favs – I like a crossover between gold and silver anytime silver is indicated… .but anything with a little sparkle will definitely catch my eye!
I really love red and green, especially if they’re in a plaid and maybe with a little gold thrown in as well.
Mary, in my home we are beginning the tree decoration today. My husband and I prefer a traditional Christmas tree – a real Fraser fir. Yes, they shed like mad in the Florida heat but smell wonderful.
Almost all of our ornaments are handmade – generally cross stitch, needlepoint, quilted and other handmade ornaments – mostly by me and my friends. We even have still two glass ornaments made by our children who are now nearing age 50. In one of their early school years, the teacher had them write their names in glue on a glass ornament. They then sprinkled glitter all over the ornaments. Every time I pull those ornaments out of the box, they shed a bit more glitter.
We prefer the traditional look over a special color scheme like blue and white. If pressed I would have to say red and green predominate in the ornaments and in the other decorations around the house.
I’m a blue and silver girl – perhaps not as festive as red and green, but properly frosty and icy. We haven’t had a white Christmas here in Eastern England for years, so I have to supply it myself!
My favorite colours for winter…..Humm is the ones that make me feel warm and cozy. Like a big hug from a loved one. So looking at my ornaments I would lean towards the reds and greens. Not the bright ones. But they are also lovely. The medium to sort of dark.
So everyone have a Blessed Christmas!
Favorite Holiday colors: I tend to prefer rich colors, so burgandy/forest green/gold are my “christmas” colors. There is also something wonderful about a blue and white/silver winter though 🙂
Thanks again for a thread giveaway! My favorite colors for Christmas are generally non-traditional. We celebrate the holiday but don’t decorate (I’m too lazy). And I don’t like “Christmas” designs or ornaments really. Just not my thing. I’m attracted to different colors depending on the weather and my mood. Today, I’m attracted to the color palette on the bottom right of this article’s cover photo of Colour Complements threads. Those colors make me happy today!
I am very traditional when it comes to Chrismas, so my colour scheme is red, green and of course lots of sparkling gold!
Many thanks for the chance of winning some beautiful threads.
I’m a very traditionalist person when it comes to Christmas color. I love the rich colors of a deep red, a dark green and a rich gold together to create the feeling of Christmas.
I love bright red and bright green for Christmas. I do also decorate one of my 6 foot trees in blue white and silver. I love all the colors of Christmas, so much! I often think of choosing themes and having a red and white only decorating scheme one year turquoise and pink another, etc… But I can’t leave my old favorite items in storage so I always go over board and my theme is crazy Christmas lady!
I am especially fond of green, but I love all the colors. So it depends on my mood and the project. Is it for me or someone else? I have a green-blue house with purple front door and I like some White flowers in the garden because they show up at night in the moonlight. I like bright happy colors but other times the project calls for muted colors. Color is simply wonderful.
I love winter forest colors for the holiday season: fir green, cardinal red, bark brown, foxfur red-brown, snowy white, midnight blue, steely sky grey, and the like. They remind me of travelling through the forest when I was a kid to get to Grandma’s house on Christmas eve.
3 chances to win! Whoppee! I do like your thought-provoking questions. I think I am a dark burgandy/gold kind of a Christmas person. It seems deep and rich to me. Historic, maybe? And it does bring to mind my favorite color of pansy, as well, so it works for non-holiday stuff as well. Personally, I notice I seem to resist “bright” (and miss the boat by doing so at times) – and like historic, deep, sultry kinds of colors. Anything a little “off” a center hue is appealing, as well. Dark golds added in always catch my eye, as well. Not SHINY gold, but a “regal” kind of gold. I could give you a few more paragraphs, but I think you get the idea!!! Happy Holidays, Mary!! Your blog is STILL such a delight — after all these years!!
I love all colour schemes for Christmas making it really difficult to settle on just one. I see icy blue and silver and fall in love. Then I happen upon teal with silver and want that. Burgundy with navy and deep forest green. Bright red and emerald green. They all talk to me.
COLOR ~ COLOR ~ COLOR !!! I love color! So choosing just one or two is just darn tough…. I always enjoy adding to my collection of stitchin’ threads.
I am partial to burgundy & gold and because I’m working on numerous holiday projects ~ bright Christmasy greens and reds threads & beads litter the table next to me as I stitch on little felt ornaments for advent calendars. I’m nearly done with a charming little needlepoint (hand painted canvas by my friend Mindy) that are in lovely shades of green, black background, with gold metallic thread ~ a Christmas gift for my daughter-in-law. I’m now on the search for a travel project… colors yet to be determined. Ooooo! More COLOR shopping coming up!
It is a very difficult question. I need many colors for Christmas. Christmas tree always has something in burgundy and gold person. Tablecloth must be white. Sometimes there are some more colors. But these three are the most important ones.
I have always liked burgundy and green. Also blue and silver are always pretty.
I am partial to pink and pale green but have never decorated a tree using only those colors. My tree is done with all needlepoint ornaments on a white tree. They show up beautifully on a white tree and have just about every color in the ornaments.
RED RED and Red with aqua is my choice.
Although in saying that the Christmas tree tends to be multi coloured because all the handmade decorations made by the children are anything colour goes!!!!
These colours are exquisite. I have just descovered a new brand of thread so will be checking it out.
We have a new nw store, opened yesterday, in Adelaide, South Australia, so lookinf forward to heading over there to take a squiz.
Cheers
Robbyn
Missed a bit or two. The new shop has been opened by Jenny McWhinney, well known in stitching and designing circles.
I can’t type, discovered is what I have done.
The colours shown would be perfect for Xmas. I also love the green, smokey pinks colourway, the reds and greens or the purples and greens. I could keep going as I love colour and the brighter the better.
Mainly I like bolder colors. My favorites would be golds and deeper reds with sparkles but who can leave out the beautiful Christmas feel of reds and greens with lots of sparkles.
I like both red/gold and blue/white. I’m not a big Christmas person anyway, but those two color schemes are lovely. The rich jewel-tone set against a bright (or vice-versa) is excellent. Happy Thanksgiving, Mary!
I like the traditional red and green for Christmas with a little blue and sliver
Christmas red and Christmas green (brights) are my favorite but I have a little of everything at some place in my house. I love decorating for the holidays! It would be wonderful to win the threads.
I have a great fondness for “flower garden” colors–reds, pinks, purples, yellows and greens. Those colors always seem to make me happy. Those colors show up in all my decorating schemes.
Brand new to your business. Just retired and am starting to do huck weaving again after about a 30 year hiatus. Enjoying every minute of it and trying to build supplies; threads and fabric.
Living in Australia, the colour palate of the surrounds varies so much from place to place and state to state! I try and embrace lots of colour – our beautiful birds, our tropical fish, the harsh reds of the outback and the beauty of the rain forests, so to answer the question – I just go with it.
You know I can’t pick favorites when it come to color! I can narrow it down to two, though. I love when designers take the traditional red and green and make them either lush, rich ruby and emerald or the opposite direction where the red is almost a dark pink and the green is nearly lime. Bright pop colors.
Blue is my favorite color, so I am really drawn to blue/silver combinations at Christmas with ornaments and other decorations that are on the contemporary side. I like the clean feel of that color combination as I move into the “less is more phase” after retirement!
Judy in SC
My favorite colors for the holidays are deep, rich red and green, with some white. A little bit of silver and gold helps, too. I’m a hopeless traditionalist. I remember as a child resisting my mother’s desire to change to white from multicolor lights on the tree. A multicolor mix is still magical, but all of my holiday decorations (save for the purple and pink in the Advent wreath) are the deep tones of red and green, with white and some glitz. And thank you for running the Giveaways – what fun! Be well.
I prefer the icy blues and whites. Those 2 colors seem to twinkle. I especially enjoy evening scenes done in these colors. The colors seem to glisten in the moonlight.
Mary in Oregon
I grew up in another country, where Christmas is celebrated differently. My fondest memories are walking in the crunchy snow to midnight Mass. Looking up, one could see the most beautiful darkish blue sky highlighted with a million silver stars. So I am going to choose navy and silver.
My favorite Christmas colors are most definitely red and gold. There is nothing prettier
than a green Christmas tree filled with shiny red and gold glass ornaments – even if the
ornaments have to be the shatterproof kind due to the three cats – Sooty, Tiger, and Patches.
Personally I love blue and silver – I think it’s more soothing at this hectic time of year! There’s nothing wrong with colour – I do enjoy the festive lights and all – but our home decorating style is somewhat less “exuberant” lol.
What a lovely giveaway.
I don’t think I have a particular colour theme, I just love colour. And sometimes I like a lack of colour: just plain white, or even black…
Hi Mary,
I’m a blue and white person. I’m Portuguese so it reminds me the tiles from Portugal.
I’ve been very ineptly trying trying to get to this spot to comment. Lorraine kindly led me back here after I jumped over to her blog.
COMMENT: I am a multi-colored-Christmas-tree-lights gal. I like big red bows on the gifts under the tree and make Williamsburg “apple cones” for our buffet with small, rosy pears or lemons & limes each year. Mark my choice as traditional.
For the winter I normaly will pick the red shades with gold for wormth. For people around me and some friends I love making projects from those colors.
But I also have my religion and the new country that I am living in.finland is all white and blue at winter with snow and the flag colors and hanukka is blue and silver which are close to my heart. I recently got a finnish rug tapastry which hang in almost every finnish household in some size or another. Mine is in the theme and colors of the northern lights seen only in the deep winter. The special colors seem to speak to me. Where others see cold in it I see life. The promise of spring and summer to come, sheer magic. I hope to win but in my view I am already a winner by the privilege of being able to see the lights.
The special thing is it also speak of florida, the state that I. Ome from and the water that surrounds florida,a double winner in my opinion 🙂
Thank you for the opportunity for a chance at such lovely thread. I have to say I really like the winter blues, silvers, and whites. But any Christmas colours put me in a festive mood.
I love the delicate and understated Christmas colours of blue, silver and white. They make a very elegant combination. Do I decorate in this style? No, my tree is full of a rather “eclectic” mix of colours – many of them not even Christmas colours – thanks to the beautiful decorations my children have made over the years.
Love love love her threads. The colors are fabulous and I would be thrilled to win these.
I love green…most shades especially the Norwegian green and anything close to that. If a pale green is matched with the right colors, I love it too. Pink…well, not so much. Unless it’s in a floral motif of some kind. But pink clothes, jewellery, doesn’t cut it for me. I love the colors of Christmas so red and green are beautiful. My most favorite Christmas colors however, are the golds and silvers especially on a tree. I also am more of a muted colors type of person. I gravitate toward traditional warm shades when I’m stitching a piece. I’ve also done a few pieces using more cool shades. The cool color motifs also appeal to me. I like color combinations that blend and would be considered “soft”. I’m don’t really go for things that are too bright unless it’s once again in a floral motif…then all bets are off since if it’s a nature thing I always think it looks good. Ok, so those are my spilled guts!! Now back to stitching. 🙂
It depends on the where I am. In a non-snowy place, icy white with blue to make me think of the snowy, cold Christmases growing up. But in a snowy place, something warmer so definitely red (not too light) and paired with either green or gold. So some what tradition, but I’m will to venture some beyond the ‘traditional’ colors
I love all colours but don’t tend to do an “autumn” mix. I like my oranges and golds with blues and greens and I mix my browns with pinks and purples. For Christmas, I like to keep things simple with red tints, shades and tones. Thank you to you Mary, for offering this give away on your blog. And, to Lorraine for supplying her luscious threads!
The colors are wonderful. I have not actually gotten to stitch with her threads but would love to try my hand.
I’m probably boring when it comes to Christmas but I prefer traditional colours
Christmas is my favorite time of year. Green and red, blue and white, gold and burgundy. All Christmas colors excite me because Christmas is so special!
I love Icy blues and whites, it seems as I’ve gotten older. Or it may be due to the fact that blues are my favorite colors. Thank you for such a splendid giveaway!
Blue and silver are what I find peaceful but I love all colors.
I’ve been making ornaments for my family and friends (16-20 most years) as Christmas gifts for years – needlepoint, cross stitch, beaded, etc. As a result, I use lots of colors – traditional or not! Colors chosen specifically for some, colors chosen in desperation for others. Colors chosen by what’s available material-wise (beads). I like “Victorian” Christmas colors – burgundies, deep greens, golds, silvers, as well as jewel tones, especially dark ones. These are the magical colors of Christmas for me. They feel rich and luxurious, the perfect complement to the holiday season. I am not at all fond of some of the modern color combinations, especially the glaring green and fuchsia combo – like nails on a blackboard!
I’m usually pretty traditional – deeper red and green. But I’ve been looking for Christmas décor in brighter hues the past few years. Red goes a little more raspberry and greens like parrot! What hasn’t changed is that gold supports it all.
The orange & lavender grouping by ColourComplements appeals at once to me in SF, though years ago I found a way to use those colors to embroider an abstract version of cheese & bacon so anything goes! It’d be rare that I’d use pale colors for Christmas, thinking more of jewel-tone stained glass drama. Chile pepper red and green wreaths also attract my attention. Happy Winter, from Chris
I’m a traditionalist – I love the deep red and green of holly for Christmas. Of course icy blues, lavenders and silver for the winter season are also neat
I like the traditional bright red and Christmas green colors.
Lime green and fuschia!
I am quite fond of the traditional red and green. But I also like Burgundy and gold. And I occasionally use blue and white or silver. And red and gold is very nice. As you can see, I just like Christmas. Living in Southern California, a white Christmas is not even a possibility.
Thanks for the great giveaway, Mary. Thank you to the Colour Complements shop, also. This is so much fun!
Red and white, the colors of the One who was born in the manger are to me the most striking of the Christmas colors..
Hi Mary,
Green is my most favored color at any time and some shades of red are not too far behind. I think that the nicest kind of green at Christmas is a very deep foresty green with a darker red – either a dark cherry red or a more burnt red depending on the green you’ve picked. Some gold with it makes a nice accent.
Karen
For Christmas I like the natural colors of the north woods…greens dull reds brown and sparkly white!
Here in Australia, Christmas is often very hot. I don’t like the heat – so I always choose blue, mauve, white, silver and gold to create a sense of coolness and brightness. At Christmas time for me, these colours also remind me of the paintings of the Nativity scene – the blue of Mary’s clothes, the mauve of the shepherd’s sky, the silver of the star they saw, and gold brought by the 3 wise men.
Hoping that all of your followers have a safe and joyful Christmas.
Sharon Gordon
Living in New Zealand means Christmas is during summer – a more relaxed feel to the holidays. Summer colours of blue, Gold and silver along with the more traditional red and green for decorations. And Sparkle… Lots of Sparkle both indoor and out with tinsel, baubles and lights decorating the trees and bushes. I’m not a theme person…I just go with what I like.
My favourite colours are the traditional red and green with a few gold accents. I have made lots of bobbin lace and embroidered decorations in this scheme, however metallic blue and silver is a great combo too.
Now back to my Christmas decorations that I will be posting away for exchanges!!
thanks Mary
those pink/green combos remind me of my time in Virginia where I once dressed up as a Preppie is pink and green for a fancy dress party!
Julie N
I love the pink, aqua, light green colors of christmas. It’s nice to have something that is a bit newer and fresher when enjoying Christmas decorations! 🙂 Thanks for the give-away!
Ahhh, love color, lots of color, but my favorite Christmas colors would be burgundy and gold! I’ve always loved deep rich colors. Don’t much like the orange/red color of traditional Christmas colors but I do like a candy apple blue/red color. Not much on blue, but I do like blue and silver. My tastes have changed over the years and my newest favorite color is teal, but a deep darker teal color. I’ve taken you literally Mary when you said spill your guts about color! 🙂 I could go on all day about color, but I have many things to do yet to get ready for Christmas so I’ll spare everyone. Merry Christmas to all! And have a colorful Christmas.
My favorite Christmas colors are any combination of deep blue or purple and silver or white. Christmas wreathes with that color scheme always stand out so much more to me than the classic red and green.
Gary
What a fabulous thread !!! nice, shiny and soft in the same time. fabulous.
I’m trying to have a set 😉
thanks
I am torn between the green/red/gold combo which just screams(in a very good way) the Christmas holiday season for me and the white/blues/silver combo which makes me want to go outside to play in the snow with it’s cool crisp air or just take a nice long walk to enjoy it. I do like both for very different reasons but for me they kind of go together as an inside/outside version of the season.
What a fabulous thread !!! nice, shiny and soft in the same time. fabulous.
I’m trying to have a set 😉
Red and greens where my favourits for Xmas, but I’m now entering in a burgundy and gold period !
thanks
I’ve always gone for bold contrasts – my current favourite is turquoise and violet. Thanks for all the give-aways!
Hi Mary,
I guess, for me, the colors for Christmas will always be a deep red and forest green, with some gold sprinkled in. These are the colors that make Christmas special for me. Thanks for the chance to win lovely threads and Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Hi Mary!
My favorites for the Christmas season are traditional red, green and white. Every year when putting up my holiday décor, I am brought back to my childhood, and memories I have of them. However, after Little Christmas in January.. Blue & White.. Nothing says Winter like blue and white.
Thank you to you and to Colour Compliment for the give-away. Happy Holidays to you and yours!
Terri P, Albany NY
My favorite Christmas colors are; medium or dark greens with a pop of red (similar to cranberry or a bit brighter – no orange tint) with white accents on an icy, pale blue fabric.
My favorite Christmas color combination is blue and silver/white. I think that is because blue is a relaxing color for me and I associate the silver and white with snow. However, the colors I associate most with Christmas are red, green, and gold because of the live trees and ornaments we had when I was a child.
I really like the bright red and greens for Christmas. For a winter theme I like blues and whites.
Christmas is my favorite holiday, and I’m a traditionalist when it comes to colors. I like holly berry reds and deep fir greens. I like silver better than gold with that color combo. Though my Christmas tree is a mishmash of all colors, and as a nod to the kids, has colored lights (instead of the white fairy lights I prefer). Love love love your blog – so much inspiration, such beautiful work!
I have seen some amazing displays with colors that I would normally not choose and have been able to enjoy them but I traditionally go with burgundy or dark red and silver.
I am a traditionalist. I love the reds and greens of Christmas. In fact a lot of the colors in my home year round are shades of reds and greens. My red entryway is the perfect place to hang all kinds of needlework. Happy Holidays to you and all of those who read and appreciate your wonderful blog.
I love Gold wrapping paper with mink velvet ribbon edged in gold tied in a bow or green wrapping with gold ribbon.
I would love to try these colours on Gold embroidery too.
Many thanks and seasons greetings from Susan Miller from Margate in Kent, UK.
Sorry about my previous post. My service dropped out. I love blue and silver and white for Christmas. One year I did grey, black and red. We call that one my mod-a-go-go Christmas. My BFF has a collection of 50’s ornaments, harvest gold, avocado green, the colors of Fiesta Ware. It looks great at her house, but I’m always happy to escape her color combos.
Color is such a personal thing. My husband is always happy to have all analogous shades of green. Never enough green in his world. We meet where green turns into blue. Color Complements is one of my favorite shops to look at in Etsy.
Cheery colors. Sparkly Christmas red, green, teal and muted gold.
New thread is such a joy to play with. I love the natural colours of plants and muted earthy tones. Using these as backgrounds and to form the “bones” of a design I can then add splashes of colour and sparkle for highlights. There’s no end to the creativity with just a needle and thread and a nice piece of linen! Working in the hand makes a very portable project that can be done whenever I have a few minutes to sit down, even if it’s just in the waiting room at the dentist’s or on the two hour drive to our daughter’s (while my husband is driving not me of course). I’m very much enjoying your work and your constant inspiration. Thanks, Nancy
I like traditional Red and Green!
My favourite colours associated with the Christmas holidays are white and gold. I adore these threads so have my fingers crossed!
Mary, I am a great fan of your site, I love the posts on Facebook. I also find the information about stitches and threads on your page very helpful, I look up stitches and hints regularly.
Absolutely love these thread colours too!!
Carole
Those are beautiful threads. What amazing colours. I love burgundy and gold and also blue and silver. The cat just jumped on my lap and apparently she isn’t happy about me ignoring her while I am on the computer. Great to know there is a good thread company in Canada.
I really like the traditional Christmas colors, red, green, gold, and silver.
I’m not particular about colors for seasons or holidays. My favorite combo is burgundies/oranges/yellows/golds all year round. NO pink all year round!
Happy holidays, Mary!
I love the old fashioned reds and greens. A deep burgundy and a hunter green. If highlights are needed, I think gold or ecru, keeping it soft. Turquoise and pink are not Christmasy to me.
I love the Color Complements threads. I would be ever so nice to them if they came my way.
Doni
My favorite Christmas colors? Burgundy/cream, blue/white. Well really all the colors are my favorite. There’s not a color I don’t like. You can work just about any color into a Christmas project.
My favorite Christmas colors are red and green!
I’m a blue and snow white person, but I still love the shine of tinsel!
I like the traditional Christmas red and green with a touch of sparkle and glitter!
A rich blue and silver are my favorite Christmas embroidery thread colors. But then again, I also really love a deep, rich red and gold as my second choice. But who am I kidding ? … I love any embroidery thread. 🙂
Red and green for Christmas colours, but my version is cranberry and lime green with some gold thrown in. Would love to win the threads to use in making projects from the latest Inspirations magazine.
My favorite Christmas colors are pretty traditional. I love silver, green, and blue the most. I feel very strongly that the Christmas tree lights should be the old time combo of colors. I can’t wait to pull it all out to decorate!
Oh what gorgeous threads!
I like Shabby Chic Christmas colors. Plenty of pink, light blue, teals, silver, whites and plenty of sparkle!
Gina
In our house, Christmas has to be RED and GOLD. Our lights and decorations throughout the house have a touch of RED or GOLD. RED for color and GOLD for glitz.