Thread painting free motion

Thread Sketching in Action No 92 - 'Abandoned' One way I like to help people ‘find their feet’ with thread sketching and thread painting, is to regularly make small projects that I can complete quickly and share with you. I admit that, sometimes, my ‘regular’ schedule is a little erratic, but this week I’ve put

Learn How To Do Free Motion Embroidery (in 7 simple steps) – Amy Loves to Sew

Your complete guide to the best machine embroidery thread for free-motion stitching. Learn about thread weight, embroidery thread, and bobbin thread. Use the right thread for thread sketching or thread painting with confidence.

Learn how to create watercolor quilts by simply painting a background with fabric paint and quilting a silhouette with your quilting thread.

10 Top Tips for Successful Free Machine Embroidery - Thread Sketching in Action

Have you ever wondered what makes a piece of art a "thread sketch", "thread painting", or "free machine embroidery"? This article explains all! #creativethreadsketching #threadsketching #threadpainting #freestyleembroidery #threadsketcinginaction

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What is thread painting? MCreativeJ shares more on this hand embroidery technique, along with patterns, kits, and resources.

Free motion embroidery is one of those sewing techniques that, once you give it a go, will become a source of great inspiration (and just maybe a little bit addictive). Master the basics and …

Embroidery is supercute, but many of us can't afford an embroidery machine or want different designs from the one you can purchase. Embroidery (or free motion appliqué) can add a personal twist to your purchased wardrobe and it can easily theme your next sewing project. All you need is a bit of inspiration and excercise... the more you try the better your outcome will look! The following tutorial will mix pictures of two of my projects, but most of the steps are the same. Option 1 is free…

Thread painting with DecoBob - QUILTsocial

Here it is... the long awaited commission for D. She's the one who said, "just make me something. Be creative." I don't want to make her something she might not love. I had to probe a bit more and did get the words green, summer, and trees from her. This image popped into my head. It was from the end of Bergheim Road, east of the city. I found it the day I went searching for flax. I've always wanted to stitch this one! Here's my process so far... choosing fabric colors, source photo nearby…

Join me for the best thread painting tutorial ever! Learn how to use SCHMETZ needles and Sulky thread the way an artist uses a brush and paint to add incredible free motion thread painting to our Artisan Spirit Water Garden heron panel.

Tips for making free-motion quilted flowers. #Free #motion #stitching

Free motion embroidery is a very relaxing activity. With just a few stitches in your repertoire, you can thread paint beautiful embellishments onto a variety of projects. In Garden Gazing, I used s…

Last week we learned how to implement a basic Thread Painting stitch with the Zigzag Meander. I hope you did your homework and played with the different color threads and how the meander stitches out on the zigzag setting. For me, threads are the addictive part, there are so many colors, so many possibilities! Now that you have the feel of this basic Thread Painting stitch, we can add to it. Lets look at our leaf from last week. There seems to be something missing, doesn't there? Our leaf…

Threadpainting, Embroidery fibre artist Monika Kinner, Canada. Prairie textile landscapes. Award winning, Internationally commissioned art. Pastel

An artist friend of ours is going through a tough time and so I thought I'd make her a quickly little landscape quilt. She is a watercolor painter now, but use to be a fiber artist, so I know she will appreciate the work. This week at the inn, Natalie Sewell is teaching her fabric landscape class which always inspires me to make more landscapes! I'm still itching to do some more work on the paper and fabric journals that I started in Kathyanne White's workshop. But realized as I was clearing…

Laughing Cat Designs Studio: How To Series 1: Thread Painting 101 - Directional Straight Stitch

For those people who visited as soon as I uploaded, I have reloaded the video, sorry for the mistake, Vicki This is a short lesson, however I just want to show you my organisational diagram for these lessons. It is a bit hard to read here but you can download a copy here. What this basically says is that I have divided free motion into two halves, straight and zig zag. Each of these is divided again into the four different directions, straight lines, circles, weave and multidirectional…