Mixed Media Thread Painting: Learn to Embroider Your Travel Memories

Learn how to embroider your travel memories using thread painting and watercolor paint.

with Maria Zamyatina
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  • Intermediate
  • 5.0 (1 Reviews)
  • 3.3 hours
  • Closed Captions
Stretch your embroidery skills by sketching a scene incorporating watercolor paint into your projects.

Preserve your travel memories with embroidery artist Maria Zamyatina. She will take you step-by-step through the process of sketching on-site for a thread painting project that incorporates watercolor paints for a unique effect.

  • Getting Started
  • Materials
  • Supplies Checklist
  • Sketching for Embroidery
  • How to Transfer a Pattern
  • Embroidery Pattern
  • Introduction to Mixed Media Embroidery
  • Embroidering Architecture: Part I
  • Embroidering Architecture: Part II
  • Embroidering Details and Using Metallic Thread
  • Final Details and What's Next
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Meet your instructor Maria. Embroidery Artist.

Maria Zamyatina is a traveling embroidery artist and amateur sketcher based in Istanbul. Maria's art projects are a combination of her main passions in life—travel and art. Having great curiosity and some experience in sketching gave Maria the idea to add watercolor to her embroideries. She loved the result so much that she started experimenting with various types of paints, fabric, and other media.

Each of Maria’s thread paintings represents a place she has visited and fallen in love with. By adding lots of details and using different media Maria wants to show the beauty and uniqueness of every location in the world.

Thread painting might seem challenging because you don’t have a clear pattern to follow. But once you try it you will realize how much freedom it gives to you and how great it is for unleashing your creativity and helping you to find a way to express yourself.

I created this course to support aspiring artists in overcoming their fears while making art. Because that is what thread painting is for me– not having an absolutely clear plan and trusting the process and not being afraid of making mistakes.

With thread painting, you can’t predict the result of your work but that is where its beauty lies. I want students to overcome their need for a clear pattern and learn to trust their intuition and creativity.

To help them in that, I share a lot of tips and also show how to accept or correct mistakes. By the end of this course, students will gain the knowledge and confidence to continue practicing thread painting.

Use Mixed Media Thread Painting to Capture Your Travel Memories

  • Learn how to sketch and take reference photos for embroidery
  • Discover how to transfer a pattern
  • Learn how to incorporate watercolor paint into your work
  • Use thread painting to immortalize a scene
Mixed Media Thread Painting: Learn to Embroider Your Travel Memories
with Maria Zamyatina

$45.95

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Creating your own embroidered travel memory is easier than you think.
Here is your opportunity to use thread painting and watercolor paint to capture your travel memories in a fun, creative way.


Maria Zamyatina
Reviews
5 star rating

Presents all the required steps

Kathleen Moore

I enjoyed this course and learned several new techniques and tips for methods I already knew. Maria is a thorough and sympathetic instructor and is easy to understand. She offers lots of reassurance and encourages personalization and verbally adds...

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I enjoyed this course and learned several new techniques and tips for methods I already knew. Maria is a thorough and sympathetic instructor and is easy to understand. She offers lots of reassurance and encourages personalization and verbally adds information about methods that she is not actively demonstrating. I recommend this course.

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Frequently Asked Questions

When you pre-order a new class, you are taking advantage of being one of the first to enroll and are eligible to receive a special discount. Enter threadpainting10 to receive a 10% discount on the course. Then, when the class is fully released on February 1, you will have access to all the materials on your student dashboard and can watch the course as many times as you'd like.

There are so many types of embroidery threads out there– it can be quite fascinating. Try them all and see which one works best for your project. Maria does mention DMC and Anchor embroidery threads for their high quality which that it is colorfast over time. Even if you don't end up using DMC thread, most embroidery threads use DMC numbers, so you can easily follow this course's embroidery pattern. Here are some embroidery tools recommended for this course:

- Embroidery Needles

- 9-inch (22-cm) embroidery hoop

- Hot Glue Gun or Craft Glue

- Cotton or Mix of Cotton and Linen Fabric

- Heat Erasable Pen  

- Watercolor, Acrylic, or Gouache Paint

- Brushes for Watercolor

- Scissors or Snips

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Yes. While you will see Maria work on one project, the course provides lessons, tips, and tricks that are applicable to any scene you might want to embroider.

This is an intermediate course with some assumptions of knowledge. Not a lot of time will be focused on how to execute basic stitches, but rather on how to use them in your thread embroidery. If you are a beginner, it is advisable to use online resources to discover how to create basic stitches and execute them before joining the course.

No, you certainly don’t need to be skilled at drawing to take the course. Maria has included a PDF pattern for students who feel more comfortable working that way and there is a lesson about how to transfer it to your cloth.


For those that would like to draw, there is a lesson showing the basic sketching skills necessary.

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