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How-To: Tinting Embroidery with Watercolor Paints

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Haley Pierson-Cox from Red-Handled Scissors is a maker of crafts, a lover of cats, an avid swearing enthusiast, a cross-stitch book author, and a general purveyor of quirk. She's also sometimes an irritable cartoon named Tiny Cranky Haley. https://www.redhandledscissors.com

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September 6th, 2012

Adding color to fabric projects with paints isn’t a new idea, but this step-by-step tutorial for tinting embroidery with watercolors from Mollie at Wild Olive makes the process feel totally easy and achievable—even if you’re not exactly handy with a paintbrush. As you can see, the results are absolutely lovely!