What two colors make green?
This guide to green color mixing, will introduce you to what colors make green and how to mix a variaty of different shades of green colors.
Watch my short video "How to mix Green"​

Working on the new project this weekend, I thought that I should start with something simple like leaves : )
I mixed the dyes for the green flower parts and the first lot of the leaves is already:
dried, cut out and even shaped and I'm quite satisfied with the result : )

The second lot of the leaves (slightly different color and made from a new silk) is still drying : )

Did you know that you can achieve different coloring results with different silks?
The same dyes could look brighter and almost pale on different silks.
For example, these leaves (on the photo above) made from Substitute of velvet /9/:
https://www.silkflowerartist.com/silk

They look less bright than the same dyes on the leaves made from satin.
and bare in mind that the same concentration on dyes will look different on the right and the wrong sides of the same silk.

and one more tip: if you dye two or more layers of the silk in one stack, remember that the bottom layer usually looks lighter than the top layer.

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You might know chrysanthemums, or mums, as a many-petalled flower found all over the world in garden beds and flower pots. Chrysanthemum blooms range from palest yellow to bright red, with a few varieties in green and purple.
They reminds me of my childhood, we had a lot of these gorgeous flowers in our garden. My grandmother was a true lover of Chrysanthemums.

I tried to make my first silk Chrysanthemum flower in early 2012. Now looking at the photos of that flower I can't hide a smile : )) I didn't have anough knowledge and indeed practice.

Today, almost 9 years later I would like to re-discover Chrysanthemum and make it from silk.

Would this new project be interesting for you?
Would you also like to make a Chrysanthemum silk flower?

Let me know by adding a comment below this post and I'll do my best to guide you through the process of creating your first Chrysanthemum silk flower

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