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

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…

We have incorporated fabric paints into this simple springtime embroidery project, you can use watercolour paint too for the same easy result. Read this blog to see how this mixed media art project is achieved by conbining beautiful embroidery threads and simple paint colours

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

Today I offer you a new case study! So if you ever wondered about the correlation between the number of layers (rows) on long and short stitching and the quality of blending, today's post might answer some of your questions, The task when stitching these 3 shapes was to make a transition from yellow to blue. The first example has only 2 colors: yellow and blue. The second example has 3 colors: yellow → green → blue And the third example has 7 colors: yellow → 2 mid shades of yellow-green →…

Have you ever felt like your embroidery needed a little something extra? There are SO many fun ways that you can pair hand embroidery with other media. One very simple way to begin is by using regular Crayola crayons to add a pop of color to your design. Read on to get tips for coloring your embroid

Laney Boyd found her calling after ordering an embroidery kit during the pandemic. Her favorite stitch? The satin stitch!

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

Stephie Manchester Embroidery on Instagram: "I painted this hoop months ago and I’ve still not finished stitching on top of it! It was so satisfying sponging the paint on like this and building the layers… Anyway enjoy 5 minutes of calming painting noises and tapping x (special hello to Ellie and Olly, I think of you two every time I share a video now!)"