Bright or Pastel: What Colour Scheme is Preferable?

Before starting a new cross stitch design, one should decide would it be a cheerful bright pattern or a pastel-coloured pattern. The colour scheme has some influence on our mood, and thus the question is what exact mood, what thoughts should the pattern evoke in cross stitchers. Below I show two of my patterns, each one dedicated to the Halloween celebration. Having Halloween theme in common, the designs are very different.

The Scarecrow design has a wide orange and yellow palette, very bright and cheerful. Can you call this design spooky? I think not. And the answer is surely connected with colour scheme as well as with other reasons.

The Halloween set obviously differs. Dusty colours, pale shades add the impression of something old, witchy, dark and scary. You can easily imagine some owl hooting, the moon covered in clouds sending some pale light on an old spooky castle or mansion... How do you think, what could be different if I have used some cheerful DMC colours, m?

Before deciding what colour scheme to pick up, set your mind about the desired atmosphere of the design. Don't forget about trends and your stitchers' preferences, of course, but mind the mood most of all!

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