Hilary 2025 - Screen printing with nature - Day 1

 I finally received my order for fabric, print paste, soda ash, etc.!  I was anxious to get started on printing! 

Well, my first pieces didn't turn out that great but after 2 'lights' I did finally get some prints I can work with!  Here are the 'lights'...we never have enough light fabric, right! 

I realized I didn't have any 'clean' screens to use!  The last time I used them I was doing both deconstructed screen printing as well as soy paste on the screens!  Welll...that didn't work out.   Not sure how to remove the soy was from the screen nor from the print left on the deconstructed screen.  

But I can over dye these two pieces or leave as is!

This piece is hand made paper I purchased awhile ago.  I used it to 'mop' up leftover dye on the dark piece below!  I love it!  

It will be a good piece to stitch into a quilt or just make an entire small quilt from it!

This turned out pretty good but using the old screen you can see bottom right that it was just a blob!  HA

Now this is the back of the fabric above!  I really like how it turned out!  

Who knows...I may just end up using this piece and stitching/quilting vs cutting up.  I sure don't know and won't for about a year!  HA

The two pieces on the left are just layout and tissue paper that I used to mop up leftover dye.

So that's my first day of playing with screens and dyes.  It felt so good to be back! 

More results on the next post!