Creative textiles

Free motion embroidery creates a lot of scrap threads. I don’t throw them out and incorporate them in my art work. Here are a few tips on how to reuse them.

Tiny vessels hand stitched and cut to form abstracted memories. Sizes from 3-8 cms. Loop Head stitch pots Worn and Wethered Summer Fields Autumn

Today I’ve shared a simple method you can use to create your own unique hand painted fabrics to use in your slow stitch projects.

Smaller textile artworks. Available framed and mounted.

Free motion embroidery creates a lot of scrap threads. Here are some tips on how to reuse them.

A Textile Designers guide to the art of Fabric Manipulation to use in simple craft projects

A sketchbook can be a beneficial tool, the key to achieving sustained progress in your artwork. Sketchbooks can be used...

Finally finished my City and Guilds Level 2 and was fortunate enough to get a distinction with my final project being my large coral reef picture. It turned out to be more purple than I imagined with more of the mount showing than I wanted but I like purple so no harm done. There are many techniques used including heating lots of chiffon, Tyvek, Lutradur and 3D medium with a heat gun as well as hand stitching and beading. I have extended this work into different colours mounted on a canvas.

Want to do some textile art, but not sure where to start? Watch as Tracey @artfiberstitch shows you how to take a printed fabric and change it dramatically ...