Paintings on fabric

Lesley Wood, Furnished with Memories (detail) When Lesley Wood inherited her mother's cross stitch stash and tried to replicate her own fine art paintings on fabric, she was frustrated that her stitches were thick and clumsy. Not to be deterred, she joined her local Embroiderers' Guild, and in a few short years became an award winning textile artist.

I belong to a couple Facebook Crazy Quilt Groups (crazy quilt divas and crazy quilt international) and a new member, Marianne Hoeksema, posted her blocks recently and I just love them because of the all over stitching. This style is seldom done by American crazy quilters so I knew she had to be European or Australian.. and sure enough she was from the Netherlands. I am always so caught up with my laces, trims, and other whimsy, I forget just what a wonderful medium that just thread is. When…

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.

An avid collector of vintage printed fabrics and found embroideries for over 20 years, New York fibre artist Orly Cogan uses hand embroidery to modernize

TextileArtist is your creative partner.

Oversized handpainted jacket for nature and travel lovers. This is not just a denim jacket, this is a picture that everyone around admires. It will attract a lot of attention on the street, because no one else in the world has such a denimThe mountainpainted jacket is the perfect gift for hikers and nature lovers. The emotions that a person will experience after receiving such a gift cannot be compared with anythingThe denim is painted with acrylic paints for fabric. It can be washed by…