Lots of work

When I was at Committed to Cloth, I pinned all the fabrics I was happy with up on the design wall.  I grouped together the fabrics I had printed at the same time for the most part, but because on the whole I stick to the same limited palette most fabrics go with something else.

I tend to have the Venice or Florida colours of pale blues, turquoise and shades of orange and the canal themed fabrics of petrol blue/green and rust.

I started cutting up the fabrics.  Firstly I cut the those fabrics that could make hangings just as they were starting with these that look like bridges., viaducts or aquaducts.

I took the two fabrics on the right of this photo and cut them both into strips.

I took the strips and randomly put them back together by pinning them on the design wall.  The next task is to machine stitch the strips together and then decide what to do next!

Next I took this breakdown printed fabric and cut it into strips.

And assembled the strips ready to machine.

I took these fabrics and cut them into strips.

And yet again reassembled the strips on the design wall.

Leslie made a suggestion to swap two pieces.  Can you tell which they are?

So now I have a lot of work to do!  I just hope I have enough thread!

Thanks for joining me today
Bernice

Committed to Cloth

As a thank you for demonstrating printing techniques at the Festival of Quilts the team was invited to spend a day or days at the Committed to Cloth studio.  I had 3 days available but ended up only using two of them, spending the third day as a day out with Roger.

I took with me all the fabrics that I have printed using breakdown printing, either at Committed to Cloth or at Urban Studio North with Leah Higgins.

Leslie and I looked at all my fabrics and took out those that needed more work.  So on day one I printed over the existing fabric using procion dyes.

Above: the original printed fabric from C2C 2018   Below: Over printed and dyed.  Still not a fan of the fabric

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Above part of the origianl fabric printed in 2018 which I thought was too bright.

Below mark making with black dye.  The photograph doesn't show the true colour of the fabric - it is much nearer the colour of the original.

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Above: the original print which had too much white.

Below: with added texture

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Above:  the fabric was too pale.  I think the photo above was taken before the print paste was washed out as the fabric was definitely paler than this.

Below: added turquoise and a different screen

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Above: part of the original print.  Photo taken before it was washed out.

Below: added colour.  Not sure about it, but I expect it will be fin once it's cut up.

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Next time: all about the fabrics I cut up and reassembled!

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice

Down South

I went to Committed to Cloth this week. I was going on my own but the weather forecast was good so Roger came with me.  He went walking whilst I went to the studio.

Today I'm going to tell you about the day we came home rather than what went on at C2C.  You'll have to wait unti next week for that!

On the way home from East Grinstead we drove towards Guildford in Surrey.  On the way we did a detour to Watts Gallery - Artists Village.

We walked through the grounds to where this beautiful Arts & Craft house had been built.  Sadly you couldn't visit inside.

Then we walked up to the Chapel which was rather too ornate inside for my taste.

This is a basketry installation.  We sat and had a drink just by it.

Then we moved on to Guildford.  We picked up an Historic Trail guide and wandered through the castle grounds with its amazing flower gardens.

This is the Guildhall clock.

The river Wey and the Wey & Arun Navigation run through Guildford.  I rather liked this sculpture.

A cast iron bridge

An old mill.  We could hear the mill race.

A canal lock.

We had lunch in a pub during our walk.

We drove home across country to the M40 rather than using the M4.

Thanks for joining me today
Bernice