July 15th Print, stitch and a pasta machine - Lindsay Fellows

We spent a very pleasant day yesterday, preparing backgrounds, making a printing 'plate' and then printing. Unfortunately we didn't get time to stitch but that will be our homework.

Using the starting point of the four seasons we prepared backgrounds which were sandwiched between two pieces of Bondaweb. This actually took longer than we thought, choosing the strips of fabric and then creating four landscape backgrounds.

Lindsay then showed us how to prepare our printing plates. We drew our design on to the inside of a Tetra pack , this was then etched using a bradawl . Ink was then rubbed into the surface and we ran a test on a piece of cotton fabric . A sandwich of fleece fabric, cotton , the printing plate and another piece of fleece were pinned together and put through a pasta making machine. It was quite a work out !!!!

 

When we were satisfied with our prints we then went on to printing on to our backgrounds. Here are some of the results

Lindsay finally showed us how to embelish our printed pieces, with snippets of fabrics and threads before finally adding the piece to a background before stitching  Here are a couple of Lindsay's pieces that she is working on.

  

Thank you Lindsay for a lovely day. We had better get stitching !!!