A Contrast

My own prints and industrial fabrics -- a big contrast. I'm not sure what I'm trying to say by that, but something makes me follow this trail. Another roadrunner, a lime and green one. They keep running.

That's what I wanted

What a simple solution! I added some black and a bit of green to the dark blue. Now come the yards. False indigo -- but not enough room to play with real dyes.

Trying a Reprint

Almost 40 years ago, my mother gave me two pieces of African print cloth. She did not know they were African, she just loved them. Combs and fruit baskets. I have never found fabrics like this, original indigo prints on a batik background. My print colors (fabric paints by Marabu) are way lighter, they do not reach the intensity of the original.

  

Maybe I'll find a way to intensify my printing ink.

Rhino Mini Quilt Finished

The African Indigo is on the right and left binding now. New prints are on the way.

Playing with color: Old tiles and pottery

 You remember my chickens? I feel like using the typical colors of faience tiles: Mangan red, ochre, green, delft blue. In some cases a radiant lemon yellow.

 Printing it all in blue is another option. I'm still trying to find out which shapes make the best effects. And here are some very nice examples of ceramic antiques.

WOT?

 Korak piecing is fun. Printing one own fabrics is fun. But I start having doubts that both together have satisfying results. I'm not sure. Tell me: Is it a disadvantage if the pattern gets lost to this degree? I wonder should I mix my self-printed fabrics with more solids? I'm in an utterly experimental phase.

Linoprints, painted after printing

The whole cloth, looking pretty chaotic;
I thought it would get better
if I cut it into small pieces...

The complete square with own prints

More self-printed cloth

More Estonian patterns, birds and fish

A lino stamp

Paint on a glass pane for monoprint,
you can see the oak table though it

And what about my latest project?

The connections of the big nine patch are done, connecting 9 nine-patches and separating them with small squares. For a bed quilt, I found out I will need 7x10 patches. Nine of seventy! Will I be able to do that? But what can you do with a 24x24" quilt? To continue is my fate.