My Block Printed Quilt

 

Hand Carved Block Prints

About a year ago some friends and I got together and carved our own blocks to print.
Then a few days later we met again and practiced printing with them.
I brought a variety of fabrics with and experimented with different paints, brushes and rollers, and how they worked on the different fabrics. I was bound determined I was not going to purchase any other paints or supplies.
I was semi pleased with most of them. Robbie kept telling me they were good prints.

All of the fabrics had been shibori over dyed with black or red dye.
Fast forward to last week when I decided to cut them up and make something. 
The irregular spacing made it a time consuming process to fussy cut and get the most useable prints, I used 30 of the 34 I was able to cut.
I spaced the block I had most of every other space, filling in with the others.
I cut narrow strips for the border from what was left.
My favorite part creating this quilt was doing the spiral machine quilting. It has become a feature in my recent work

Newest Quilt–My Hand Carved Block Prints

About a year ago some friends and I got together and carved our own blocks to print.
Then a few days later we met again and practiced printing with them.
I brought a variety of fabrics with and experimented with different paints, brushes and rollers, and how they worked on the different fabrics. I was bound determined I was not going to purchase any other paints or supplies.
I was semi pleased with most of them. Robbie kept telling me they were good prints.

All of the fabrics had been shibori over dyed with black or red dye.
Fast forward to last week when I decided to cut them up and make something.
The irregular spacing made it a time consuming process to fussy cut and get the most useable prints, I used 30 of the 34 I was able to cut.
I spaced the block I had most of every other space, filling in with the others.
I cut narrow strips for the border from what was left.
My favorite part creating this quilt was doing the spiral machine quilting. It has become a feature in my recent work.

Personal Stamps

This past Saturday I got together with my fiber art/surface design buds. We each carved several stamps. These are the ones I did and I’ll show you the others in another post.
Although I had done stamp carving before I used different tools this time and also used a new material which is the green one you see.
We met again on Monday and had a great time using the stamps.

I tried this stamp first and was pleased with the design.

I also tried printing it with a metallic paint.

This is another one of my stamps.

Here are 3 repeats of that block. One of the things I was trying to do was to see how the different paints I had worked for stamping the blocks.

Block number 3

2 repeats of block number 3. I did find it was more challenging to use the metallic paint.

This is my last block. Using this carving material was something new for me.
I did not get a print from this one with the metallic paint.
I did learn a lot trying the different paints and I know what my next attempts will be.
It also was a good learning experience seeing what the other 4 friends did with their blocks, colors, paints and ways of applying the paints. You will need to wait to see their work, but believe me it will be worth the wait.