How to Watercolor Paint on Fabric - and Make It Into a Pillow!

by TIDBITS

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I have a recent obsession with watercolor. I really wanted to find some fabric which featured these beautiful blended stokes of paint, but they were hard to come by. Being the DIY'er that I am, I wondered if it were possible to create my own watercolor pattern on white fabric.

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After some experimentation, I discovered a way to use ordinary watercolor paints on fabric, for amazingly beautiful results!

My one-of-a-kind fabric made stunning pillows for our porch swing.

It's as easy as wetting your paints . . .

. . . and painting on your fabric. Then you add a "secret ingredient" to blend and make the paint stay on the fabric while using and washing.

After that, you can sew up a simple envelope closure pillow, with my step-by-step tutorial. All the juicy details found here:

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UrTressure Heaven on May 25, 2017

hi
thank you

what are secret ingredient for making watercolor permanent, npn washable ?

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Teresa Martin on Apr 06, 2015
Cami, I went to a link that showed the same thing and went to another link that offered several other links. I clicked on one or two and I still never found the instructions. Thanks for reply. Just sign me lost and confused.lol

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- TIDBITS on Apr 06, 2015
  @Teresa Martin No, we can't have that! Ha! Let me make sure you get to the right instructions, if you want them. The painting instructions was actually done in another post. http://www.tidbits-cami.com/2015/05/how-to-watercolor-paint-on-fabric-tutorial.html
  
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Emilierønhøj on Oct 09, 2015
Can you please just say the ingredient

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