Quilting Arts TV Episode 705: screenprinting with facial cloths

See my segment in Season 7 of Quilting Arts Television, episode 705:

It frustrates me that our local PBS line-up does not include Quilting Arts TV!  Luckily, anyone who is in the same boat as I am can order the series on dvd.  I got an early copy of the series and started watching them.  I learned how to install a proper "facing finish" on a quilt and it has already come in handy several times!  No matter what your level of experience in surface design or quilt making, there is a wealth of information in each episode.  I recommend it (and not just because I'm in it ;-).

3-D Architecture

I just completed a 3D structure that will be part of a collaborative installation with several other artists, spear-headed by Kathy York.  Until the entire work has been photographed and the jurying finished I am not at liberty to show the entire piece, but I WANT to!  Here is a little peek at the back doors of my structure.  I'm calling it Warehouse 104:

Artistic construction license

I'm participating in a collaborative project involving houses, or buildings.  This project is very exciting, and challenging.  Since I have been obsessed with gritty, industrial colors/shapes/images of late, I decided I want to build a warehouse/loft.  I'm still working on the roof, and trying to decide about if (or how!) to create windows that swing open at the base (how the heck to wedge them open:   tiny pieces of velcro and a small toothpick covered in felt??).  Welcome to my obsessive little world.
Here are some images of the "cloth-siding" of the building.  The siding is constructed of dyed facial cloths fused to lutradur.  The stitching was done prior to fusing the piece to peltex for stiffening, then it was quilted to the peltex prior to cutting.  More images to follow, but here is the stitched lutradur.  I like the back of the piece nearly as much as the front!

front

detail

reverse

Sold!

What a thrill:  my piece, "Heartland:  A Scattered Landscape", has been sold to an architectural firm.  I'm very honored that this work was chosen.  Since my father was an architect (as well as a structural engineer) I'm especially pleased that it will reside in this type of setting.
Here are images of the piece:

Front of the 2-sided piece

dimensions:  80 inches by 24 inches

Back

detail of front

Visual Inspiration

Sometimes I think the images that inspire me to make marks and stitch patterns are unconscious.
Occasionally, I stumble on some of these parallels in my photography and surface design work
Here is one example:

A midwest winter scene, shot from the air

and then.....

To Answer a question about whether script will "smear" when printing...

Thanks to everyone who has contacted me about the article in the current (issue #44) Quilting Arts magazine.  I have received an inquiry from a reader about whether the script created using the extruder will smear once a lighter color of dye is pulled over it.  Interestingly, there isn't much smearing of the script.  I won't say there isn't a little, but the script remains legible.  Only one pass can be done because the dye-colors will muddy once pulled across the screen.  This dye is scraped off into a "dye trash can" container.  Sometimes, I use the "dye-trash" for something else, but I rarely deposit it back into my screen and pull through a second time.

Here are 3 facial cloths that have been printed with this technique.

Since I'm writing really personal things on the screen,

I don't really want the viewer to be able to "read" it.

Therefore, I position a corner of several cloths under the screen at one time,

then rearrange them after printing.

Here is a combination of facial cloths and the silk broadcloth "dropcloth" that was 

positioned under the facial cloths during printing.

These items have been batched and machine-pieced together.

Please don't hesitate to ask questions about the process.  Thanks for your interest!