Printing Practice

Here’s what I made this weekend – a cosy dinosaur pillow for my boy. He and I screen-printed the fabric months ago with me promising to sew it up into a little pillow for him. Well, guilt finally got the better of me and I made the pillow at last – he loves it!


And I love it too - I love all the little drawings he comes up with. He carefully drew the picture out, which features three dinos with the sun shining down on them, and then I cut it into a stencil. Then we set up the table outside and he helped me do the printing. The reverse is printed with the image too but is a little smudged - it was so hard getting the registration right. As well as that it was a really windy day and the screen and the ink was drying out ... but now I'm just making excuses! It’s the first screen printing I’ve done in years so it was good to have a little go at it again (and realise how much more practice I need!)

I also screen printed some fabric for myself … still not sure if it’s good enough to do anything with yet (bit tricky to see it properly in the photo) - maybe a bag or skirt? I’d like to give the printing another go and maybe design some one-colour prints for fabric. Fun.