Thanks to Alexis for giving me the heads up, I was able to sign up for a unique opportunity, a two night block printing class with Lizzy House at Gather Here in Cambridge. If you have been reading my blog for awhile, you know I like printmaking and have done a bit of screen printing and block printing, but, as I told Alexis, I have never printed with Lizzy House! I picked up a few new tips too. The best one was to print with a piece of craft foam under my fabric. I had used dishtowels before and found that craft foam was so much better.
I had time to carve blocks and print two pieces of fabric. Above is my feather design printed in turquoise ink. I have had feathers on the brain ever since I first saw Anna Maria Horner's paper pieced feathers.
Then I printed this piece with little pincushions and pins. Cute!
Here is what Lizzy was working on. She carved an adorable back to school block with an apple on top of a pile of math symbols. She also worked in strips of cats-the one you see in her hand here. It was such a neat experience to get to print along side of her.
It just so happens that Cindy asked us to make Great Granny blocks following this tutorial for the Stash Trad Bee. She wanted them in Halloween colors and prints if we had some. I didn't have any Halloween prints but used this as an excuse to pick up a couple of Lizzy House's new Guising prints from Sew Fresh. Thanks to Peg's quick shipping, I received the fabric and was able to make the block for Cindy before my last block printing class last night.
Geek that I am, I brought my block and asked Lizzy to sign it for Cindy! I kinda hate to send it away now but surprising Cindy with this signed block is even more fun!
The winner of the Sew Me A Song giveaway is Nati! Congratulations. Thank you everyone for entering!
Love your printing results, I am guessing that was really great workshop. CIndy will squeal when she sees that block!
ReplyDeleteWow, that must have been a blast! I love those feathers. The pincushions are pretty awesome too!
ReplyDeleteyay, yay, yay, to all of it!!!
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh, Amy!!!! I LOVE it so much! What a fabulous surprise!
ReplyDeleteamazing amy, love those prints you made and what a thoughtful lady you are getting a siggy!
ReplyDeleteThat looks like fun, Amy. Cute prints.
ReplyDeleteThese turned out great! I was actually sitting next to you last night and I was pretty sure you looked familiar, but I couldn't remember where I knew you from. Mystery solved. I meant to say something, but I got wrapped up in the excitement of printing. Your prints were by far my favorite last night!
ReplyDeleteSo great, Amy! I'm so glad you went so I could enjoy it vicariously through your gorgeous work :)
ReplyDeleteJealous - I bet that was such a fun workshop! Your prints are fantastic and I love your granny block :-)
ReplyDeleteI was so excited about Lizzy House signing my block that I forgot to say how MUCH I love your block printing! Fabulous!
ReplyDeleteThat's so cool - sounds like a great class! Thanks for passing along the craft foam tip - I've been using an old towel when I print my poppy pods. Next year I'll try the foam for sure. I love the stamps you carved!
ReplyDeleteYour prints look great... will you be selling them?
ReplyDeleteI'm jealous of your class! The prints you made are great, I especially love the feathers!
ReplyDeleteLove those feathers! And the hue.
ReplyDeleteThat looks like so much fun,Amy! Your prints turned out amazing, and how cool to get a siggy!
ReplyDeleteAwesome! I love those feathers!!! The pincushions are so cute too. How do you decide what to carve for your design? I'm taking her class at quiltcon and am so excited. I think it's great though that she teaches it in other places as a single workshop too. I wish I could convince people to travel to Alaska, but ill likely always need to be the one traveling.
ReplyDeleteLove the printing, and what a fab idea to get her to sign your block!
ReplyDeleteThat looked like so much fun!! You did wonderful on both of them! I also LOVE your granny block!
ReplyDeleteOh, lucky you! Sounds like such a fun class! Your fabrics came out great, and so did Lizzy's!
ReplyDeleteCindy is going to LOVE that! I love it!
ReplyDeleteYou did such a great job on your prints. They are amazing. I love them both. Some day I need a lesson on that. It looks like a lot of fun.
Your prints look fabulous! Did you have them sketched out ahead of time or did you just come up with these ideas at the class?
ReplyDeleteHow thoughtful and clever of you to bring along you block and get it signed by Lizzy!
I have never done ink printing before. Possibly I'll try it one day. I love the halloween block that you made. Cute and scary!
ReplyDeleteI'm so jealous, and I'm not even ready to start printing yet! Lovely job!
ReplyDeleteLizzy is so sweet... definitely worth the effort to print with her! I love your feathers and the pincushions are adorable! Can't wait to see how you use them:-)
ReplyDeleteI love your prints! I was lucky enough to take a fabric design class with Lizzy and it was so much fun I love how she teaches.
ReplyDeleteOhmygosh! This is an awesome post. How fun that you got to take that class and I love all of your work that you accomplished there - the feathers are so sweet and I love the pincushions too.
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