Hand Stitching on Fabric Painting

Respond to your painted fabric and add stitch to enhance the colour and add texture to the surface. Linda will work with hand embroidery onto her Inktense painted cotton fabric, but you’ll find this approach can work on top of other painted fabrics or printed designs.

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Approximate run time: 18 minutes

Presenter: Linda Kemshall

Video Workshop - Respond to your painted fabric and add stitch to enhance the colour and add texture to the surface. Linda will work with hand embroidery onto her Inktense painted cotton fabric, but you'll find this approach can work on top of other painted fabrics or printed designs.
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To join in you’ll need:

This workshop focusses on the hand stitching of an already coloured fabric. This can have been done with any technique, including fabric painting, but it’ll also work very nicely on a printed fabric too, even some commercially printed fabrics might be suitable.

  • your fabric
  • embroidery threads (Linda used Madeira Lana)
  • Hand sewing kit
  • Hoop

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