Customer Work

We love to hear from customers with pictures of their work and how they've used our screens!  This morning we received a note from a customer who made a special request.  In late spring, she requested a circular version of our crackle screen to use on pottery.  This was kind of a light bulb moment for us, as we had not thought about making some of our images into circles before, but filling this request became a springboard for doing the same with other images.  At any rate, back to our customer, this was our resulting screen.

Ava has an Etsy shop called TabletopPotterybyAva where she sells her handmade ceramics for the home.  She sent us two pictures, one before glazing and firing, one after.

We love the subtle effect the crackle gives the pates.  Very cool to see our design used this way.  Thanks for sharing, Ava!  And be sure to check out her Etsy shop, she has some very lovely work available for purchase.

In addition, check out our PGFiber2Art Etsy shop for this and our other circular images that were listed this summer.  They are mostly 5" diameter but the one shown here is 8".  We'll work on adding size variations to the shop.

Fish Prints for Log Cabin Rows

The processes Sue and Elizabeth used for creating their center fish blocks incorporated texture screens in the background.  If you are interested in using this procedure as well, this is how we did it.  Although you could also make yours without a background.  The screens we used for backgrounds included water ripples and 2 versions of a crackle screen.  (Only one crackle is in the Etsy shop, but if you like the other, just contact us by email.)

In the photo above, the bottom half is the original fabric, and the top half is after discharge with the water screen below.  Discharge takes color out of the fabric, and was done with a product called deColourant. The water screen is in the Etsy shop here.

Below are two of the fish prints on the discharged fabric that were used in the row.  The fish are printed with navy blue screen printing ink by Versatex (available from Dharma Trading).  You can see that the water screen adds a lot of texture to the fabric.

Elizabeth chose to use a crackle screen to add background texture to her green fabric. She used Jacquard Products Lumiere Citrine textile paint to add a tone-on-tone effect.  In this angled photo, the metallic component of the paint is most visible.

Here is the fish printed on the background.

In a third option, Sue started with a white background and printed the crackle screen first for texture.  She used Caribbean Breeze transparent paint by PROfab (from PRO Chemical and Dye) and the screen below.  (PROChem also carries deColourant products)

After printing the fish in orange, she realized that too much of the blue showed through, so she decided to mask it by filling in the shape with a paint brush, and then overprinting in a darker blue.

Another way to create the same effect would be to print the fish on a separate fabric, apply fusible web to the back, and then fuse to the background as an applique.  So you can see there are lots of options for creating your fish centers for the log cabin blocks!