Turning watercolour into thread

This week I began translating one of my watercolours into thread. In doing so, I am bringing together two passions that have shaped my creative life for years: textiles and drawing and painting.

For a long time, these interests seemed to compete with one another. Time spent weaving felt like time away from painting, and vice versa. But since I started weaving on a frame loom, something shifted. It felt as if the two worlds finally found a way to meet, and my heart gave a little leap.

The first steps are now underway. I am not following the watercolour too strictly; instead, I use it as a guide for choosing and combining yarns. As the work develops, I hope to blend different threads until I can achieve exactly the colours I am looking for. In many ways, it feels similar to painting—mixing colours, building layers, searching for subtle transitions—but much slower, and perhaps even more tactile.

And it probably goes without saying that this new adventure has also revealed a pressing need: many more yarns, and many more bobbins.

I am excited to see where this journey leads and how the language of paint might continue to transform itself into the language of thread.