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Tea Cozies off to Moscow

by Kit on October 19, 2009

in Bird motif,Fiber Art,Poetry & other words,Printmaking,Works on Cloth,leaves and flowers

I sold two tea cozies this past weekend to a woman from Moscow! It makes me smile to think that one will warm her mother-in-law’s teapot in Moscow, another her mother’s teapot somewhere in France! She bought them from my “old” Etsy shop, which features screen-printed items for the home. The design began as a paper cutting. I call it my Haiku House finch Tea Cozy. The haiku reads:

Curious house finch
Tastes the ripe crabapple –
Daylight grows short.

Tea Cozies, screen-printed on 100% cotton velveteen with fiber-reactive dyes

I’m working on a new online shop that will feature my katazome work. If all goes smoothly, I plan to launch it sometime in November.

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Gelatin Plate Monotype Leaf Prints

by Kit on October 22, 2008

in Printmaking,Works on paper

I taught a class in gelatin plate monotype at Banfill-locke Center for the Arts last weekend. Here are a few my favorite prints. I experimented with Golden Open Acrylics with great results. Normally, acrylics aren’t recommended for this technique but these paints worked well — highly saturated colors and a pleasure to work with. They didn’t dry out while working (I added a bit of medium and thinner while mixing the colors). I used lightweight printmaking paper — Rives BFK, and some pastel drawing paper. You can also use fabric and fabric paints.