So finally I got to take screen printing (the class that I had to drop when I broke my leg). I still have one more week of the class, but I have to say that I really enjoyed learning this process and it was my favorite class this summer. I definitely see myself using this process in the future. I’m posting my first yardage project which was a variation of the pattern that I made from the tea set. I changed it around and added a few things. I really like how it turned out! It was so much fun printing yardage for the first time and seeing it all fit together. It’s kind of magical. 
I’m also posting my second yardage project. It revolves around a postcard that my Dad wrote my sister and I when he went to Japan in 1988. I already had the postcard scanned in my computer and thought it would be fun to work with since I was working with objects from that same time period. I also started working with pictures for this project and added a new object, a locket that my Dad gave me. I cleaned up a picture of my Dad, sister, and I from 1988 and simplified it in photoshop so that it would translate well when screen-printed. I chose this picture in order to set a mood of the time period that the postcard was from. After I finished the screen-printing I added in embroidery with silk ribbon and floss to highlight a few important details.
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- Screen-printed, fabric yardage
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- Screen-printed, fabric yardage
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- Screen-printed, fabric yardage
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- Screen-print close up
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- Screen-printed, fabric yardage
