Lee Thomson

I signed up for a hand-printed fat quarter swap. Only a day or two late, I have finished my fabric and dropped it in the (priority) mail this afternoon.

They came out well, finally.

I started with a handful of hand dyed fabrics that weren’t quite… done yet. I printed potato masher prints all over them, BUT the black was not deep enough. So this morning I bought better black paint, plus Red Kate gave me a jar of black dye that I didn’t wind up using. I over printed all the masher prints I’d made last night and got them good and Black. But they still weren’t done. I found a lovely pot of copper glaze I had, and printed jar-lid circles over the mashers in a decorative pattern. Now they seem to be done.

I wanted the black to give little windows into the hand dyes, but it looks more floaty instead. The copper floats over that. It all looks profoundly lumpy, but on the whole, better than I expected. I hope the others like it…

I may have to name the potato mashers. The one with lots of holes is definitely Bubbles, and the one that is quite black has both an X and lots of  Os and could be XO (or Xoooooo), although there is probably a better name, and the flower shaped print could be Flower. Possibly Felicity. But I can’t think of a name for the one I like the best – with little oval holes around the edge. In the bottom right-hand picture. I’m open to suggestions…