Mood Board: Airy Garden Color Palettes with DMC, Anchor, and Cosmo Color Matches

Some colors feel like they carry a breeze with them. The Airy Garden collection is a set of six soft, garden-inspired palettes - gentle greens, misty blues, and blush tones that make your projects feel calm and light. They’re perfect for the season that lingers between late summer and early fall, when the air is still warm but the light turns softer.

And because we know it helps to have a starting point, each palette comes with HEX codes plus embroidery floss matches in DMC, Anchor, and Cosmo.

Misty Garden

🌿Pale stone, sage leaves, and soft rose petals. Fresh and airy, like walking through a garden path in early morning light.

✨ Use It For: A quilt border in sage with blush accents, or an embroidery hoop of roses climbing a stone wall.

Quiet Meadow

🌾Misty air, deep ferns, and faded wildflowers. Calm and steady, with a quiet sweetness tucked inside.

✨ Use It For: A Sashiko-style runner stitched in fern greens, or a cross-stitch sampler with misty fog and faded roses.

Pond Reflection

💧 Blue water, mossy reeds, pale blossoms. Meditative and still, like watching lily pads drift across the surface.

✨ Use It For: A wall hanging with watery blues, or quilt blocks softened with cream blossoms.

Tea & Petals

🍵 Gentle and welcoming, like sitting down to a cup of tea among fresh-cut flowers.

✨ Use It For: An embroidered teacup-and-floral motif, or a quilted table runner that feels right at home under a teapot.

Tranquil Grove

🌳 Blue spruce, willow green, scattered petals. Quiet and reflective, a shaded woodland in soft light.

✨ Use It For: A throw quilt in spruce and willow tones, or a sampler scattered with petal-pink stitches.

Petal Drift

🌸 Romantic and delicate, like blossoms carried across water.

✨ Use It For: A spring scarf embroidered with blossoms, or a patchwork cushion in sky blue and peach.

A Breath of Color and Calm

The Airy Garden palettes are about calm more than anything else. They’re soft, open, and a little meditative - like colors you can breathe with. They don’t ask you to hurry or get it “just right.” They’re simply here, offering a gentle place to begin.

Let them bring a little lightness to your stitching, your quilting, or even just to your desk as colors you keep nearby. Sometimes the project is the making. Sometimes it’s simply the pause. 🌿

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