Breakdown printing - the most fun you can have with your clothes on!

Well that’s my opinion. If you’ve been reading these posts for a while - thank you! - then you will know that I love breakdown printing. With experience you have a level of control over the results but it is that element of serendipity that makes breakdown printing so special. And versatile. There are so many ways of adding colour and mark to a screen and they all give lots of very different looking prints. Breakdown printing forms the basis for my art and is the most popular workshop that I teach.

I had another wonderful group of students last week and you can see a small selection of their work below. Mid-week eye candy!

If you are interested in breakdown printing you could come and see me demonstrating at this summers Festival of Quilts, both on my stand (K47) and in The Creative Textile Studio. Or you could buy my book (details here). Or sign up for my online Breakdown Your Palette workshop. Or join me in the studio. I still have places available for the last five day workshop in 2022, 12th to 16th September. Priced £400, you can find out more details, and book, here.

And I’m very happy to announce dates for my Breakdown Your Palette workshops in 2023. The dates are 15th to 19th May, 12th to 16th June and 10th to 14th July. Unfortunately though I am having to put my prices up having held them for three years. The new cost will be £450 with £150 deposit and the balance payment of £300 due six weeks before each workshop. You can find more details here.

(Or yes and I also offer the 5 day Breakdown Your Palette workshop to private groups of six, giving a 10% discount on the price. Please contact me here if you want to know more.)

Plug over … now time for that eye candy courtesy of Alwyn, Clare, Enid, Jane, Janet and Kerry!