It has taken a while to get this journaling thing together, but I think I've finally got it! I will start at the beginning...
Silk screening. By far my new favorite textiles decoration method. Inking an image with that amount of detail onto almost any surface is INCREDIBLY satisfying! And making your own image into something that can be printed anywhere is also awesome.
To the left here is my darling Thimble Mitts. She was a computer drawn girl I sketched up on a tablet few months back. I always thoughts she was a
dorable, and wished she had a gre
ater purpose. Then along came s
creeni
ng. I was too lazy to make a new image for my screen, so I manipulated darling Thimble here in
to a two piece print, as shown here.
After a whole day of making my print, I had no time to put it on anything, so this Tuesday I went back the the Purple Thistle for some T-shirt making. The Thistle is amazing! Its a local art resource center run by some amazingly talented people who provide every art service they can. They have a stop-motion animation room, a sewing room, even a small bike fixing corner at the back! And its all free, screens, emulsion, and everything! All I had to do was bring the shirts, so it was all set up for me on day 2. I spent a nice afternoon printing up Thimble Mitts in many different colours. A few times, the bottom colour layer didn't have time to dry (there was only one board to stretch the shirts on for printing), so the image got a bit smudged, but it was all okay in the end.
Me with my final t-shirt. I also got distracted and stole someone's bacon print screen. My neice will be happy when she gets this one....
