as the design picture. I don't know what thread brand MOST designs are digitized with. Do you all follow the thread colors that come with the machine, or pick your own colors or use some program to change the colors or something else? I welcome the input. I posted a picture of my rooster on the Projects page if you want to see the difference.

Your rooster is lovely...but you don't have to always go by the colors you see or what the charts tell you to use. Use the colors you like to get the effect you want, think you'll be much happier doing it this way.
Hugs, Karen

I generally change the colors in embird to match whatever pallet the designer says it should be. Then I use my thread match software from MetroEmb to match it to a Metro color number. Then I pull those colors and see if they look "right" for the design. I tweak from there to make it look nice (and I always test stitch a new design so I can be sure they really all go together when stitched). I find keeping the picture of the stitched out design from the designer is VERY helpful for what it looked like. No machine and no software I have ever seen gets the colors just right without some tweaking.

Oh, what a question! I almost never use the colors on the design. I use my colors so I can consider it "mine". Rarely I will really like what was used and do it. But I don't have just one brand of thread. I have a little bit of everything. Some from JoAnn's on sale (won't pay full price for anything there!) Some from online and some that came with a used machine that I bought. (Figure I paid for the thread and she threw in the machine. Good buy.) I go from Coates and Clark to Maderia. I keep my thread in a couple of sets of plastic drawers. Colors all together, so I can reach in and pick the shade that I want. Get all the colors out and in a little circle to see if they go well together, then just stitch. And rarely change my mind during the stitching.

Your rooster looks great. I might have to do him after all.

I also love it the way that you have done it. Would be sooooo boring if we all did it the same way and your choices of colours look great !!! Stars for everyone.

I thought your rooster was just lovely the way you did him.

My first set of thread was the Brother colors. The colors suggested on this rooster are rayon so poly will be just a bit different but yours is definately lovely. I too seldom use the colors called for. This guy can be just about any color maybe even just a couple instead of all the different ones.

I hardly ever use the "correct" colours - just use them as a guide line. I personally think your rooster looks great. It would be so boring if we all used the same colours!!!

I think machine embroidery as a form of colouring in, so I use what ever I have.
Another thing you might want to remember,is that dye lots can vary considerably in one colour.I have 2 reels of the same colour but they appear as a dark & a light version of the same colour.You are usually advised to buy enough of 1 colour in the same dye lot to avoid colour variations-this applies to knitting yarn, hand embroidery threads ,fabric etc

Well, I for one, change the colours to suit what I'm embroidering it on. So the colours that are often displayed in a design - I don't use. Yours is lovely by the way. Love Chris

I think that your rooster colors are a beautiful choice for your fabric. I rarely follow the suggested colors. I would rather chose my own colors, or follow along somewhat but change some threads to coordinate with my fabric colors. Sometimes I use a color conversion chart if I want to stay close to the original design.

OK, here's the rub. If you want the colours to be EXACTLY what you see on your monitor, you should go to your thread collection and oick out each of the colours, bring them over to your monitor and compare them to the colour YOU see on YOUR screen.

Forget about matching numbers, brands or anything else, just match to what you see on your screen.

EVERY screen shows the colours differently, so what you are seeing may not even be the same as what the digitisers choice actually looks like.

If you look at picture one, Miss Veronika's stitchout and colour chart, take a close look at the BLUE'S on her rooster and then look at the Blue's on the colour chart, you will see they are totally different, so already there is a problem.
Then look at the outline on the feet and see if you can find that brown colour in the colour chart, you won't.

Photo 2, is my MADEIRA colour corrected design, you will note it is closer to Miss V's colour chart than her stitchout. So if I just chose the Madeira colours on the colour chart without first seeing what they look like I would be very disappointed with the choice of blue's. And I wouldn't like MY green outline either, Miss V's darker green looks way better.

NOW, this doesn't mean my PROGRAM'S colour chart is more accurate and it doesn't mean Miss Veronika's is inaccurate!!!!

The real test is when you go and locate the colours, which ones will be closest to the colours you see on the screen, because the next thing that comes into play is the Colour Palettes in the digitising programs that each of us use.

Every time I buy another colour, I (USUALLY) open Embird, open the palette for that brand, then open the colour and alter it to match WHAT I SEE when I look at that colour. This makes my palettes a little more accurate. BUT ONLY ACCORDING TO MY EYESIGHT.

So you see, colour is not cut and dried, it is definitely in the eye of the beholder.

Here ends the colour lesson for today. hehehehehehehehe!!!!! Hugs and roses, Meganne

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by meganne 09 May 2011

OOOPS! "Oick" should be Pick.
Sorry, I don't have a spell checker with IE browser. So please forgive any typo's.

I love all the different ways this one can stitch out.

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I love that rooster! He will definately be displayed somewhere in my kitchen with all my other roosters!

wow I just posted a message on your project I thought your colour choice were superb :-)
For my own preferance I have never yet followed a colour/stitch guide.
I will always choose my own colours from the selection I have .. dont be afraid to let your imagination run wild.. most of best creations in colour have actually come from accidents lol
Big hugs from London
Maria xx

I use the colors I like but my software will cross referece the threads. If it's done in Maderia, I click on the thread color, then pick the thread maker I want, say Sulky, and it will bring up the thread for Sulky that matches the color for Maderia. I have the 4D software.

All that said, I just love you rooster!! I don't see a problem at all with your color choices. He looks great!

What I have done is to get a Madeira colour chart and match my colours as close as I can. Then I made a colour chart with Madeira numbers and put my colour numbers beside it. Now all I have to do is look up the Madeira numbers and there is my colour number. Sometimes I will "play" with the colours a bit. Marg

Thank you for your feedback and taking the time to answer. I've learned something new today. :) I just love this site!

I thought your colors were lovely - I just pick the color as close to the color chart or whatever color that I would rather have from my collection of threads. Machines are so different and we all get used to the thread that works best in our machine or what we learned to stitch with - it really is a personal preference - keep on stitching - you did a great job.

I think yours is beautiful. I'm sorry you are disappointed with your colors. The stitch out was done with Madeira thread according to the color chart. I use mostly Sulky thread. I just pick the colors that I want to use, but if you Google thread charts you will find that Madeira and most of the others show the color number for another brand.

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by jrob 08 May 2011

Here is a link to try if you want.
http://www.sewterific.com/threadc...
This shows several Thread conversion charts.