Jamie Malden of Colouricious loves to play with block prints and has discovered that Gelli plates can add a new dimension. Do you want to know how? Well she feels that Hilary Beattie really shows you how in her book they met when Hilary was busy rummaging in the hedgerows for leaves.
And who knew that a potato masher or bubblewrap could be so useful? There are various chapters in the book but the one of stencils and masks was of particular interest to Jamie as she felt that lent itself to her own use of stencils with block printing.
The book encourages you and your friends/family to take time to play with everyday objects, a gelli plate and some paint.
If you want to purchase some gelli plates then just go to the Colouricious website, click here. There you will also find fabric paints, printing blocks, stencils.
Click here to learn more about Jamie Malden.
Jamie loves this sort of project which allows her to combine her love of block printing with stencils and then use some simple embroidery stitches, such as seeding, french knots, chain stitch. What an great and individual project you end up with!
Here she takes a very plain and ordinary towel and...
Jamie loves to block print and by using this Decolourant paste she adds yet another dimension, as if by magic, to her work. Decolourant acts like a bleach in that it takes the colour out of the fabric, leaving the block print behind, and the magic begins when you have let the paste dry, and then ...
Fabric Dyeing with no mess
Join Helen in this starter workshop for dyeing. Here she shares a completely mess free method using just a simple plastic bag.
You can adapt this simple method to give a tie-dye effect too.
Helen has 2 dyeing books with great dyeing ideas and all ‘no mess and no fuss’, ...
