I fitted in another session of block printing yesterday, playing around with colours and fabrics. Its amazing what you can do with a couple of hours, especially with blockprinting which makes it quick and easy to change colours.
I even made one tea towel (first picture matched with some fresh bright magenta borlotti beans I bought this week) it is in the shop.
My experiments with overprinting continue, I love the way the prism print looks with an overprinted and slightly offset white highlight, there's something wonderfully retro about it and it brings out the base colour so well.
I trimmed down my printing plate which made my registration much closer, but I've still retained the 'printiness' of the block printing method which is one of the things I really like about this method. If you missed my tutorial the link is over there on the left.
Next step is to make some of these fabrics up into cushion covers. At least one of them (not sure which yet!) is destined for my couch.
And I seem to have signed up to Cam's August Choose Your Own Bag Sewalong Adventure so I'd like to try printing enough to make a bag pattern I have saved in my Pinterest files...
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these are great. i love the effect of the over printing. you are so productive! i'm impressed a a tad jealous :) xx
ReplyDeleteGorgeous Susie! Really loving the over-printing especially. Very funky :) Kx
ReplyDeleteThat first photo is so fun and happy. I could hardly believe it is Winter when I see a photo like that!
ReplyDeleteAnd the last pic, with the over printing, adds a degree of three dimensionality to the print that works beautifully. Very clever. :)
Wow, you have been in a printing frenzy! Love the colour bleeding through the white layers in the third shot, exciting! x Alisa
ReplyDeleteMy gosh you have gone block crazy... love it! Especially love the over printed ones! It's always so much fun to have time to experiment and with such a lovely result too :)
ReplyDeleteThat offset print is wonderful!
ReplyDeleteGosh you've been very busy. The designs look really effective, but I love their simplicity.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I love the shadow effect of the over printing.
ReplyDeleteI've enjoyed looking at these on IG, I especially liek the dual coloured prints! Very pretty.
ReplyDeleteI'm really enjoying your block-printing adventures! These bring to (my) mind ancient, weathered tiles in exotic places - beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI'm totally into overprinting right now ~ yours look great!
ReplyDeleteThese are fantastic Susie! I love how the overprinting is working out too. Yay!
ReplyDeletethe over-printing really has such a special effect...way to go on such beautiful fabrics.
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