Cross-stitch color palettes

A soft light-to-medium skin range for portraits, faces and hands on pale complexions.

Warm medium-to-deep skin shades with rich shadow browns for darker complexions.

A complete face palette — highlight, skin, shadow, hair and outline — for stitched portraits.

Aqua-to-deep-navy blues for seas, lakes, skies and anything that needs water.

A full run of leaf and pine greens, light to dark, for foliage, trees and gardens.

Tans through chocolate browns for fur, hair, tree trunks, timber and earth.

Golds, rusts and burnt oranges for fall foliage, pumpkins and cozy seasonal makes.

A warm pale-yellow-to-red sweep for skies at golden hour, gradients and ombré.

Inky blues and violets with a spark of white for star fields, space and midnight scenes.

Gentle pinks, lilacs and sky blues for flowers, baby designs and spring samplers.

Dusty, low-saturation tones for antique-look samplers and softly aged designs.

Saturated primaries across the spectrum for bold, cheerful, high-contrast patterns.

Pure white through black in even steps — ideal for black-and-white photo conversion.

Warm greiges, taupes and soft browns — the quiet backbone of almost any scene.