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Did you pick up a craft, (crochet/needlepoint/paint, etc) after you got older?
If so, what is it? Yes, I make jewlery. Crosses out of beads and bead bracelets. I love it! 
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nail polish design painted on fabric or a vast various array of other surfaces astronaut and pigs
Nail polish can be used as a paint to put an image onto fabric.It won’t wash out.It may fade over time but can be updated.It dries fast so you can only work with a drop at a time.I did the drawings in the video using a needle.You put a drop of nail polish on a palette and then dip the tip of a needle into it and then apply it to the fabric.It takes a long time but it is fun to do.Nailpolish is great because there are thousands of colors you can’t get anywhere else.You can mix them to get color nuances.There are microthreads in some nailpolish that help it cling well to the fabric.The result depends only on your skill.If you put the drawing on a pillowcase or something else that rarely gets washed the color will never fade.The pigs were on a shampoo bottle.The astronaut was in a drawing book.I did a hamster but I can’t find it for the life of me.Be experimental and try to discover new uses for the things around you Who else would think to utilize nail polish to transfer images to fabric?Perhaps only me.Necessity is the mother of all invention.I needed a multicolored paint that would not come off in the laundry machine.Nail polish does not have a lot of pigment and covers some fabric colors better. You can test each and every color before going far.Also see videos on how to embroider by sewing over paper. Use nail polish to paint beads and secure knots in fishing line you use to make necklaces. I really like the space man in the video. The seat with the multicolor flame …
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Technique of embellishing a painted needlepoint canvas vs covering with stitches? What do you think? Any tips?
I like to do needlepoint and have gotten pretty good at it, and collected so many beautiful painted canvases and unusual threads. I’ve always filled the whole picture in with various types of stitches, but sometimes it seems like it might look better to just ‘decorate’ some of the areas with fancy threads and beads – because the canvas itself looks nice, or because certain shapes in the design might get slightly distorted if completely covered. I wonder if anyone has experimented this way, and how it would look, or if there are any websites with examples and ideas?