Watercolor embroidery

Recently I've started to delve into hand embroidery and watercolor. Before starting an embroidery piece, I experimented with watercolor paint on different fabrics, and also tried using watercolor pencils vs watercolor brushes. Here are a few of my learnings…

Adding paint to hand embroidery—or adding embroidered elements to a painting—is a wonderful way to experiment with layering colors and textures, decorating fabric, and delving into the wonderful world of mixed media art. If you have been curious about mixing these beautiful art forms, this overview

I often describe doing embroidery as "Coloring with Thread" and more specifically, to think about working satin stitch as coloring with a very sharp colored pencil. Turning that one it's head, today I'm going to talk about how to color your embroidery with colored pencils, cray

Watercolor embroidery is a stunning combination of watercolor painting and hand embroidery. At a first glance it can look very difficult and intimidating. And to be fair, it is quite tricky to find good information about it. Thus to solve that problem, I have put together an informative guide with 7

Learn how to use watercolor paints on fabric and kickstart your mixed media adventure

Hi all! I'm a fan of cross stitch. I also love creating cross-stitch patterns. Every day some ideas appear in my head and I try to implement them.

Today I decided to combine my two favorites, watercolor and embroidery. I used watercolor to decorate my fabric and then did some freestyle embroidery stitches to create an abstract piece of art. I found this project to be so meditative and relaxing. Want to give it a try?