I continued my modular woodblock printing (which I showed you here Modular woodblock printing), but this time I’m printing on fabric. I included dots that serve as embroidery guides on the prints to make it easier to keep my stitching symmetric. I also use the glow forge to make clear acrylic templates that let me put dots with a pencil onto the white parts of the fabric.
Loving the mixed media! Are you going to combine the squares into a larger final project (eg. quilt)? Or are they standalones? Great work - and such an organized workspace!
Thanks for sharing the process to make this beautiful fabric artwork. The acrylic templates are visually interesting on their own, and your stitching is superb.
Thank you. I have loaned the process for sure. I’m using baltic birch. The thread is called perle cotton, though I realize that’s not what you meant by “thread.”
The tricky part was to decide the patterns both for the blocks and for the stitching. The decisions have to be made upfront, before manufacturing the templates and the blocks and I did an awful lot of trial and error and second guessing. Now that I made all the decisions, the print making and stitching goes quite quickly. I expect to stitch another one over the next couple of days.
I am impressed by the art. I am more impressed by your using a tool to make another tool to make art.
Shopbot used to have little one day seminars usually hosted by some universities art or industrial design department. I went to a couple of them and out of the entire day my biggest takeaway was “if this machine (what ever machine) won’t make the thing, make a thing that will.”
