For those of you have come into a dress making workshop you know the problems with tissue patterns and know that I consider them a necessary evil to making clothing! As a teacher I find it a shame that it puts so many of us off sewing (me included!) I would rather make and wing a pattern sometimes to make that work for me. Now, it is incredibly satisfying to take a pattern follow the directions and come out with something fabulous. Maria one of my participants and I cut and sewed a wrap dress which was lovely and then proceeded to change things as we went along to make it more on trend. Now that was a workshop I really enjoyed! I digress...
I have been working on printing on fabric, there are so many different ways of doing this that I signed up to two particularly good courses that have helped me understand the process. The first was with the
London print club, a wonderful set up based in Dalston that really made screen printing fun. It also helped me explore the use of colour and understand the boundaries of the process.
The first picture shows the drying racks, the second was of a screen table and the third of the computer, light box and a few of us milling about.
Here are the results of this creative day and my playing with colours to pull.
Two other screen printed images that I loved:
On to other types of printing for me. So many ideas... so little time.
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