Patch Art, a new felting and embroidery technique
Patch Art is a cutting-edge technique for giving your garments and accessories a unique, personal and different touch.
Patch Art consists of creating raised embroidery with carded wool for felting, making simple yet striking designs that will give your garments an original look.
You can personalize your garments, accessories and decorative objects in a fun, highly personal way with endless possibilities. It’s easy, and the result is truly original.
This raised embroidery technique is very fashionable, simple and quick, so you can transform your garments into refreshed new designs in no time.
To create your Patch Art designs, you will need the following materials:
- Carded wool for felting
- Felting needle
- Felting sponge
- Threads to complement your designs (optional)
- Template in the desired shape
Creating your embroidery using the Patch Art technique is very easy. This type of raised embroidery is easy to learn and quick to make, so you’ll love it and soon want to add your personal touch to many of your garments.
In this tutorial, we explain how to embroider your garments with Patch Art:
1. Place the garment to be embroidered on a flat surface. Put the felting sponge underneath the area you are going to embroider.
2. Place the template on the fabric and fill it with carded wool.
3. Pierce the fabric with the needle, passing through the wool as if it were a punch, repeatedly across the entire template area, so that all the wool is secured to the fabric and the embroidery is firm and held in place.
4. Add thread embroidery to the design to create a more complete composition.
To illustrate these steps, we’ve included a video tutorial showing you how easy and quick it is to do, so you can achieve beautiful results in no time.
