Beading on fabric is one of my favorite fabric embellishment techniques, and I have to admit I’m a little addicted to it. I love to bead all sorts of different types of textile art, and sewing projects. I sometimes like to sew beads on individually … … and sometimes I like to sew them on …
How to Sew Beads onto Fabric so they don’t fall off Read More »
Here in Central Florida Hurricane Matthew is now a thing of the past and life is getting back to normal. Although we were fortunate to suffer only minimal damage, it does take a few days to destress from a force of nature such as a hurricane, so I have to admit I’m way behind with …
Stitched textiles with a little wabi sabi on the side Read More »
I decided to print one of my watercolor sketch PhotoArt images onto fabric to see how it would turn out. Well watercolor on fabric never looked so good and all without the mess! It’s a beautiful result and the image printed out better than I expected. I used some crackle paint to create an aged …
I’ve been working on a new piece of digital art cloth this week. I designed this PhotoArt image in Photoshop and then printed it onto fabric. I originally had planned to use the printed image in a fabric collage, but then decided to use it as a starting point for a stitched textile before I …
Adding Stitch and Dimensional Texture to Digital Art Cloth Read More »
Beading is one of my favorite methods of embellishing my art quilts and other sewing projects, and I like to use lots of bead dangles which are made using several strands of beads which are strung onto lengths of thread and allowed to hang and well … dangle. I just love the way that the …
I work a lot with textured fabric surfaces mostly because I think they look a lot more interesting than flat surfaces. Sometimes I create surface texture using machine stitching. And I also use a lot of fabric paper texture. I also sometimes like to use unusual materials such as tyvek to create texture. And of …
Tutorial: Creating texture on fabric using crinkled ribbon Read More »
