I made a small collection of different patterns both natural and manmade
Page 14 consists of images of natural altered natural and ceramic and stone pictures that I have taken around the world. I have been lucky to have travelled widely, always with a camera and take photographs of unusual items when I see them
Page 15 - the top five images are all architectural where the architects have used pattern in their designs. The two 'other' patterns were found just be opening my wardrobe door. I like pattern particularly Indian block printed fabric designs.
The bottom four images are bottom left x 2 images of cow parsley, which is one of my favourite countryside plants. It is in every hedgerow where I live. I then cut a stencil trying to depict the plant. I found this quite tricky as the seed heads are very tiny and didn't make a great job of it but used some handmade paper and stencilled it with blue acrylic paint and sponged gold ink from an ink block alongside. I have just purchased a scan and cut machine which means that I will be able to scan a drawing into the machine and it will cut my images accurately.
Symmetrical patterns
The lovely tiles from St David's cathedral were interesting. In the final two, I recognised rotational and mirrored patterns
Printing
I drew an imagined flower using a craft knife cut the petal shapes and stuck them to card with Pritt stick. I created and handle and marked the top of the newly created print block. Unfortunately the petals are not obvious in my photograph, but they will be obvious when used to print.
Page 16, drawing, negative foam cut and block
I had a few pieces of brown and cartridge paper which I had painted previously and decided to use these as the base of my symmetrical block samples. So using brown painted paper, red acrylic paint and my block I made a pattern of straight repeats
Page 16. Straight repeat pattern.
Using the same block on a previously painted white cartridge paper, I blocked spot repeats with blue acrylic paint.
Page 17. Spot repeat pattern
Again using some previously painted brown paper, I used yellow paint and created a blocked half-drop repeat pattern, which looks subtle and attractive although there was a small splurge of green on the paper when I started.
Page 17 Half drop repeat pattern
Cutting a stencil for rotational symmetry
I chose a simple design taking the idea of a Charles Rennie MacIntosh rose from a china coffee cup and traced it, then made a stencil with a craft knife and drew a pencil stencil to see how it would look. Then I tried it with yellow paint on some hand made paper, which has Shakespeare text included in it! I also lino cut the rose and used sponged gold ink from an ink pad an a light spongeing of silver ink, I made a little image. I decided that the rose would work with my block to make the patterns for the chapter.
Page 18. Lino cut, drawing, stencil and images created with the stencil and lino blocks.
Using my stencil, I used a piece of transfer painted polyester satin and blue acrylic paint to make mirror image block patterns - I think that the rose now looks like an angel fish!
Page 18. Mirror Image pattern
Using the same fabric as the previous sample and the same blue acrylic paint, I made some rotationally symmetric patterns noting the angle using the marking on the back of the block to find the marked top and rotating it through 90 degrees each time.
Page 19. Rotational symmetric pattern
Using a piece of transfer printed polyester satin, I block printed and stencilled using my home-made rose stencil and three commercially made blocks. I used good paint with my stencil in half drop pattern, a leaf block with green acrylic paint again in half drop pattern and a small flower block using yellow acrylic paint in a more random pattern as it would blend subtly with the sample colours. I was very pleased with this and think it would make a lovely summer skirt. I then added some free embroidered stitch around some rose petals in gold and one with a pink thread.
Page 19 Half drop symmetry with blocked patterns and stitch
I continued to experiment with colour and pattern using transfer painted paper on polyester satin, my block and stencil. I am attracted to half drop symmetry and continued to use this on my next two samples
Page 20 - Transfer painted paper, yellow and red
Page 20 - Polyester satin using previous transfer painted base and then blocked and stencilled in red and green acrylic paint. Quite Christmassy!
I experimented with another transfer painted base and my block along with others on another transfer painted page as an overlay. This is pretty and I had thought that this would be the basis for my final sample but I then used another base transfer painted base and the same overlay which I thought created a better foundation for stitch.
Page 21 - Experiment with base and blocked overlay
So, my final design. I hadn't really liked the result of the transfer painted image but when I looked at the design again, I realised that it would work with the blocked overlay page and stitch rather better.
Page 22. Transfer painted paper
Page 22. Blocked overlay using rotational home made block, straight alternate lines of large flower blocks and half-drop star shaped flower with more randomised rounded petal flowers amongst them. I then added the little yellow blocks rotationally through the design and transferred the base and overlay to the base (above)
The final sample, using the two previous papers with transfer painted base and pattern, supported on felt and stitched in the style of Cefyn Burgess using cow parsley as a floral inspiration, black thread top and bottom and free embroidery. I probably should have supported this with a hoop as it has puckered a bit, but still looks lovely, I think......
Page 23. Stitched patterned polyester satin sample
I think that lined with bright green or yellow satin, this design would make a great evening jacket! I really enjoyed this chapter.
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