"Passing Thru"

So I've had this piece of fabric on my wall for a while and always a conundrum as to what to do with deconstructive screen printed fabric?...but for this piece, I did find a solution. 

 It is very busy but thought I might try printing on top ...running it through an ink jet printer. What do I have to lose. Right?



I found these 2 images in my picture file and thought they might work together as a layered image, so into my photo editing program to manipulate and make adjustments. I printed the layered image on the deconstructive piece of fabric and Voila!

 I love layering photos as it's always a surprise...sometimes good and sometimes not so good but in this case, I think pretty good. I did flip the trestle as perhaps you can see, like it better that way.

 I loved the gold and wanted to pull that in...along with blue. I had more blue deconstructive fabric which worked well. The tree on the side is silk screened onto the fabric and covered with organza to tone it down....but not sure I should keep it there..

 A piece of fabric from my Stonehenge collection seems to work better on the left....

 and the tree works better on top as a frame.

 It was an afterthought to wrap this piece around stretcher bars rather than bind or face the edge. So when quilting it, I used a soil separator cloth, rather than a fabric...on the back. Soil separator cloth is similar to pattern duplicating material only less expensive. I get it at home improvement stores in the plumbing department...used to line large outdoor pipes. So back on track, I needed to add pieces to the edge for wrapping around the bars.

 I assembled the stretcher bars, made sure they were squared up and started pulling the quilt to the back. Using an electric staple gun, I added 1 staple in the middle on each side, turned, added a staple etc. while constantly checking the front.

 This is the way it looked on the side.

 The back was finished with a piece of muslin, silk screened with trees and then picture frame wire added for hanging. This is one of my Haiku pieces.

                                                          I did do some discharge using a screen with writing (a recipe written by my grandmother), also some screened trees and metallic gold decorative couching thread in the ditch which is obvious when you turn the piece a certain way.