Sewing Dye & Paint Embroidery Crafts Book Reviews Cats Links HOME > Embroidery > Undersea Embroidery | HOME | CONTACT | Undersea Embroidery I started this project by spending about a week studying and making sketches from photographs of tropical fish and other creatures. I then made a loose sketch of the overall design. I started with a piece of royal blue medium weight canvas fabric (not embroidery canvas) and spent about 4 hours bleaching and overdyeing it for the background shading. Following the sketch I worked the two largest fish, the scallop, and the boat. From there on I completely freestyled. Easily a quarter of my time "working" on this project was spent gazing at it as I waited for inspiration to hit. Luckily, inspiration kept hitting. When it was "done" I had to hide it in the attic for 3 months because every time I looked at it I would feel an obsessive urge to do "that one last thing" that would make it perfect. Unfortunately this is a really bad scan. I'll try to get a better one the next time I have access to a scanner.