Working on print

At the end of the last term I decided that I really must try and keep up with my own sewing and projects. Term goes by far too quickly and I end up having done what is required with the girls and not anything more. Printing is such a gratifying medium and after last term where we were all bleach printing with wonderful results I decided to keep going and make scarves for a very dear friend and myself... the results are below:

This first one was printed using a Alabama Chenin stencil that I got from here

their resources page. When bleaching the blue stretch fabric dyed to a lovely purple, which I matched quite handily to a wonderful viscose that was in my stash of fabric that had a soft hand feel.

This stencil was a Ikat print that was inspired by a blog post that I read and here I do apologise that I cannot remember who wrote it but her stencil was done for a cushion I think, I space mine out and had 5 blocks of ikat on the scarf and worked each panel with beads and sequins and thread work to help it stand out.
My friend was very happy with her scarf and I was thrilled that I had managed to make something that really was useful and very unique. All the right reasons for sewing. My resolution for this year is to keep sewing.