Dying seat stitching

Thinking about getting a fabric pen and carefully going over the stitching on my seats. Has anyone successfully done this before? Think it could look really good! Did a test on my old work trainers with a red marker, looks pretty good:

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I would be careful what you put on the seat stictching as it might transfer onto your clothes