Quilt Camp 2020 Week 2 - Resists

What's a resist?  A resist is something that blocks the absorption of paint or dye.  For this week's exercise, we worked with 2 resists.  One is a water-based resist made by Jacquard.  The other is white acrylic paint; Sue used Artistic Artifacts fluid textile paint and Elizabeth used Pro-Chem white paint. All of these products were printed though our Thermofax screens and allowed to dry overnight.

For the water based resist above, Sue used the crackle screen.

 

 For the white paint resist, Sue used the patterned circles screen; Elizabeth used the chain link screen.

After allowing the resists to dry, the next step is to color the fabric.  You can use dye or paint.  Being in different places, we are working with the supplies we have on hand. Sue chose to use Dye-na-Flow, which is made by Jacquard and is described as "extra vivid, ultra-transparent fluid acrylic paint that simulates a true dye."  It is very fluid, like water, and can be diluted with water for a less intense color.  For smaller pieces, it provides the ease of paint while acting like a dye.  Elizabeth used 2 different types of paints - Tumble Dye, which is a spray, and Setacolor which she diluted by half with water.  Elizabeth also used a wet sponge brush to spread the tumble dye which in addition to spreading the paint, brushed it off the white paint resist.

  

Sue's water-based resist piece was colored with a combination of teal and sulphur green.

Her white paint resist piece was colored with yellow, orange and red, brushed on in scattered areas.

The yellow was painted on first, then orange, then red.  More of all 3 colors were used to fill in and blend colors. 

Elizabeth colored her fabric with blue Tumble Dye and Canary Setacolor.  Where they overlapped and blended some green is the result.

After allowing the fabrics to dry, they were heat set by ironing from the back side.  Then they were hand washed in warm water with synthropol  detergent, rinsed and allowed to dry again. 

 

The water-based resist washes out and leaves the original fabric visible, in this case white. The white paint absorbs some of the paint color so it is no longer stark white, but the pattern is clearly visible. After drying and heat setting (ironing), you're newly printed fabrics are ready to use in your next project!