Color Guide: Colly Bird
Photos courtesy of Benzie Design
This ten-color collection of wool blend felt and matching embroidery floss was custom made for my Colly Bird pattern samples shown above and is now available in Benzie Design’s shop! Thanks again, Renae!
Colly Bird Benzie felt colors:
Black
Graphite
Julep
Moss
Coral
Mustard
Peacock
Cyan
Copper
Orange
You can purchase this Benzie felt bundle with or without the matching flosses. You’ll need matching floss anyway to sew your ornaments together, so having the pre-matched flosses comes in handy! NOTE: You will still need to purchase floss for the contrast decorative embroidery!
See colors below.
Green/black/mint colly bird felt colors:
Head and tail: Moss
Body and wing inset: Black
Beak: Coral
Wing and wing overlay 2: Graphite
Wing overlay 1: Julep
Green/black/mint colly bird contrast embroidery colors:
DMC White
DMC Black
DMC 3804Â (DK Cyclamen Pink)
DMC 608Â (Bright Orange)
DMC 581 (Moss Green)
DMC 958 (DK Seagreen)
Gray/blue/mustard colly bird felt colors:
Head, tail and wing: Graphite
Body and wing inset: Peacock
Beak: Orange
Wing overlay 1: Mustard
Wing overlay 2: Copper
Gray/blue/mustard colly bird contrast embroidery colors:
DMC White
DMC Black
DMC 3846Â (LT Bright Turquoise)
DMC 608Â (Bright Orange)
DMC 3852Â (V DK Straw)
DMC 3799Â (V DK Pewter Gray)
I’ve also done a curated bundle of felt for each of the previous Twelve Days patterns
and you can find them all under that same Benzie listing in the drop down
menu. See these older blog posts for more pictures and details: Partridge & Pear, Turtle Dove, and French Hen.
Happy hand sewing!
Hi Larissa, how many items does each pack from Benzi make? For example do I get one pear and one partridge from the pack of felt, or two? Same goes for the other packs. It seems a good idea to get it all at once. I have to have it shipped to Australia so I want to work out the best economy to do a few.
Hi, Microwavejenny, I'm not sure actually. I usually purchase felt in larger sheets so I've never put it to the test. You'd at least be able to get two or three in the color schemes I show in the photos but I think you'd be able to get a few more from the pack if you switch your color schemes around. I'd love to know how it worked out for you so I could pass along the information.