Colour - do you add to the passives or the weavers

Adding colour to your work can be fun and bring in a way to personalise a piece that you want to make for a gift.  Understanding where you.

​When working cloth stitch (CTC) the weight of the threads will give you an indication as to where the colour will dominate.  The best advice is to do a trial piece, but here are some rules of thumb.

Weavers / workers are slightly thicker than the passives will cause the workers to dominate.  In most cases, this is how we add colour to areas

Weavers in the zig zag whole stitch thicker than the passives so dominate

Weavers are thicker than the passives and dominate

Passives - coton perle 8 thicker than weavers

Passives and Workers coton perle 8

Where the worker / weaver is lighter weight or similar to the passives then the passives will often dominate