Textile Art: Underwater Seascapes

Experiment with free machine embroidery, water-soluble fabrics and embellishments to finish your original artworks.

Learn to master techniques as you go, look at colour in a new way and play with all those fantastic fabric bits!

This exciting workshop will develop many ideas for future projects.
You will learn to use your sewing machine to create beautiful surface embellishments.

Please bring the following on your first day of class:

• Sewing Machine in good working order with the user’s manual if possible

• Free Motion - Darning foot that fits your machine….Please check this at home and or with your machine shop/dealer and don’t forget your electric machine lead (this often gets left at home)

• Sewing machine attached table

• Spare sewing machine needles I suggest topstitch or jeans needles

• Sharp scissors and small scissors

• Normal sewing requirements

• OPTIONAL: Pencil and paper to draw and take extra notes and diagrams

• OPTIONAL: Black fine tip marking pen

• OPTIONAL: A water-soluble pen

• OPTIONAL: Small sandwich bags for fabric clippings

• A few paint brushes

• Water container

• Plastic ice cream container lid (for a paint pallet)

• A piece of plastic to protect the table to paint on

• Paper towels

• An old towel to help with drying fabric

Fabrics:

• 50cm x 50cmm [medium blue] fabric for the underwater background this will be covered with chopped fabrics

• 30cm heavy craft tulle in light blue colours

• 20cm sky blue Crystal Organza fabric

• 20cm pretty green Crystal Organza fabric

• 10cm light blue Crystal Organza

• Variety small amounts of scraps of special/glitzy and textural fabrics in watery and reef colours like pink, red, yellow, purple, grey, orange

• Fabric scrap examples could be.... Silks, organza, tulle, lace, lame and any interesting fabrics from your stash of fabrics to create the parts of the 3D reef.

• Scraps of metallic, silk and cotton yarns in reef colours are also suitable for embellishing onto the artwork.

• OPTIONAL: medium/small printed fish fabrics

• OPTIONAL: Dyed wool fleece in sea colours (approx hand full)

• Threads Poly-Cotton and Cotton sewing machine threads in suggested colours of black, white, blues, purple, greens, yellow, red, orange (and Fluoro colours optional), to suit the seascape and fish project

• OPTIONAL: for painting your own fish you can bring some printed fish fabrics available from patchwork shops to embellish with machine stitching

• Bring your camera to document your stitching of techniques and the finished underwater Artworks of the class.

This class has an extra materials cost of $40, which is payable directly to the tutor.

Once you book your ticket, the tutor will be in touch to arrange payment.

Cost includes:

• Stablisers

• Patterns

• Shared paints

• Other essential supplies

There will be a limited number of Full Seascape kits, including the product kit ,available $185 each. The deadline to order these is Dec 20th 2025.

Knowledge of the basics of free machine work is an advantage for this workshop, but it can be completed by all levels of experience.