Ready, Set..........

My very first professionally prepared screen arrived yesterday, I am so excited and can't wait to get printing.....but first things first.

Because I'm focusing on repeat pattern designs I've come up with a little hand made (cheap) printing table and scaffold system which once setup I am hoping will make printing faster and more accurate(I am a perfectionist and a maths teacher after all, those measuring skills come in handy sometimes). So although I have the fabric, inks and now frame to get the printing happening I spent most of today sorting out the nuances of my brilliant scaffold system (just a few tweaks here there and everywhere). Can I just say (whinge) that life would be so much simpler if a piece of timber that looks straight, actually was straight!!! So yes my brilliant scaffold system needs a couple more minor adjustments and things should start happening tomorrow, fingers crossed xxxx. Here are some pics of the test runs done today!

On My Way

Ahhhh, school holidays are here and I'm hoping to make some time for designing, printing and sewing. I've got a few things in the pipeline but anyone that knows me knows that I can take my sweet arse time to get things happening. I blame the day job for this! Anyways, I've sourced some beautiful fabric(hemp and yak hair - how bizzare is that) that's just crying out for a funky design to be printed onto it, a few new designs that I've been playing around with, a huge chunk of timber that will become my printing table, a screen with my design stencilled onto it in the process of being made........so give me a couple of days and I should have some printed pieces to show to the world!!! Of course this will all depend on the screen being delivered in the not too distant future - but I'm excited.

On another note, just saw this on the cool hunter facebook page and loved it, maybe a future project for me!