My local group met today (minus two people) and had a mammoth screen printing session with the screens I had prepared last week.

I did take a few photos of scraping the paper off the paper lamination screens. After the screen has dried, you soak it in water and then scrape all the paper off. That leaves the matte medium in the organza and you use this to screen on thickened dye.

Here is the largest paper lamination screen I made. It kind of reminds me of cracking paint on an old wall.

I also made some masks for the deconstructed screens. I cut out the designs with a craft knife.

You can see the ginkgo leaf cut outs that remained after I cut out the leaf screen.

I was so busy helping to screen that I didn’t get any in process photos. This is one of the deconstructed screens printed on a silk scarf. I will try to get better photos of these when they’ve been washed. I took a bunch of photos but very few turned out well. We used thickened Procion dye. Sometimes we just used clear print paste (thickened) to break down the dye already dried in the screens and other times we used thickened dyes through the screen.

The green piece with squiggly lines was printed with the rice baby cereal screen. It gave very interesting prints.

This was another of the deconstructed screen prints.

Here is one printed with the paper lamination screen. I really like the organic look you can get with this screen.

This is a silk scarf printed with the paper lamination screen.

Here’s a square printed with a deconstructed screen.

Here is cotton fabric printed with one of the rice baby cereal screens. It should fit well into my current circles theme. I will take more photos of the fabric after it’s been washed and ironed. Hopefully, I can get some better photos. The screen printing was fun and all the screens worked great. Everyone was pleased with the outcome.

I did get my background fabric dyed for my ice flower piece. It is dark green. The colors are a bit off in the photo.

I also made a vine with organza leaves which I plan to put along one edge. The flower isn’t sewn on but I was trying it out to see if I liked it. I really like the sheer leaves and I’ll be adding those over the entire piece. Now I have to decide how to attach the red/pink piece of fabric to the background fabric. I will probably zigzag stitch it down and perhaps couch a piece of green yarn around the entire edge.