The weather was foul this weekend – cold, grey, miserable. No reason to leave the house and no incentive. So I did some dyeing instead. I needed to dye-paint a piece of cloth for the background for a quilt I am planning. I mixed up some dye in yellow ochre and a dark green [...]
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I think one could say that I have produced my first piece of art cloth. It was a rather unconventional process as the last step was dyeing the background colour. I was really trying for a paler background, but my dyeing is never an exact science. My note taking is just not structured enough [...] These are the results of my printing with my two screens made with drawing fluid and screen filler. I added another set of prints using each screen in a paler colour. I started with the pale orange spirals and decided to overlap them with the first layer of spirals, because other people in the [...] This weekend I am having fun with my screen printing. Things are working more or less as they should! I have made myself some home made screens with some plastic thermofax frames and some synthetic fibre organza fabric and am finding them much easier to use. I used both home made screens to try [...] Well my flour paste had longer to dry than intended, thanks to Ryanair cancelling our flight back from Spain on Wednesday due to the general strike in Spain. This is what they had to say in the email they sent out on Tuesday evening: Unfortunately due to the failure of the Spanish Government to [...] Well my new duct tape finally arrived. It turned out it was sent from the UK, so that’s why it took so long to get here. Did I mention that the last lot only survived two sessions of printing before it started detaching itself from the screen? I have taped my screen again with [...] As I keep mentioning, I am taking a screen printing course with Lyric Kinard at QU at the moment. The third lesson opened this weekend. We are going to do some printing with thermofax screens now. I followed a link in the lesson to a supplier Welsh Products mentioned by Lyric. Imagine my surprise [...] I also did some printing with a freezer paper stencil. I made the design using the ideas in the article Expanded Square by Jane Dunnewold in Quilting Arts June/July 2007. The article just popped into my head when I was looking for inspiration for my freezer paper stencil. It was something I had been [...] My class on screen printing has been running for 2 weeks now. There was quite a bit of preparation to do so I only started any printing this weekend. The first experiments were with newspaper stencils. These are quick and easy to make and great for a motif that you don’t want to repeat [...] I’ve just signed up for Freeform Screen Printing at Quilt University. It’s been a while since I took a course there as I couldn’t really cope with any other courses on top of my C&G. It meant taking time off the one course to do the other. I’ve been keeping a look out for [...] |
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