I have been taking a screenprinting class this fall.  I've learned to create designs on vellum and then burn them onto the screen with photo emulsion and ultraviolet light.  Then printing with single color and multiple colors.

designing for t-shirts

 Printing cabbage rose for a textle repeat

mixing paint colors with base

Wonderfully spacious printing space!

working on multi colored repeat

designing artwork to be printed

more textile repeat

to dry textile that has been printed

 squigees to push through the mesh - many sizes!

machine for printing t-shirts

David, the assistant in front of the screen dryers

power sprayers to wash out the screens and squeegees.

prof. looking over artwork

This has been a fun class - and it really complements my photoshop class very well!

Here are my first 4 blocks for a king sized quilt I want to make.  I've been wanting to make one for my bed for awhile now but have been worried about quilting a king sized one.  I decided to just start piecing the top.  I still don't know how I will fit a king size quilt on my home sewing machine but I will think about this later.  Perhaps i'll just have it quilted by someone with a long arm machine.

I decided to make my blocks using mostly solid fabrics.  Solids I am using are: Shot cotton, Kona Ash, Coal, Medium grey and Tomato.  Printed fabrics are Lotta Jansdotter, Kumiko Fujita, American Jane print, Neptune, Hope Valley.  These blocks are improvisational in that I just start cutting fabric and piecing together whatever I have available around me.  Each block, however, will be approximately 17" unfinished.  I am thinking about just piecing each block together the way they are or possibly adding white sashing.  I haven't decided yet.  But I do have 11 blocks finished so far and I do like the way they look together!