Here is an animation I made to show the process I used for printing my old grey curtains with a sheet from the sublimation printer. I designed a print with geometric shapes and then cut out the individual shapes and arranged them over the fabric. I used the heat press to transfer the dye onto the fabric. The printed sheets can be used to print over and over again (up to about 6 times) getting lighter with each print. So I kept rearranging and printing the shapes until all of the dye was exhausted. In this way I was able to print a larger area than by using the A3 sheet in the normal way (one single print) and utilise all the ink in a way that embraced the fact the colours get lighter each time. Also, the print is completely unique – I wouldn’t be able to get the shapes in the same places even if I tried. The print was inspired by diamonds, with overlapping colours.
After the printing I cut out diamond shapes for patchwork. Then I moved rearranged them until I was happy with the composition and stitched them together. See the previous post for the steps involved in the patchwork.
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