The fruits of my screen printing - Felt Coasters

In addition to the Girl Scout totes, I screen printed these coasters. You may remember them from a few months ago. They've been done for awhile - but I wanted to reveal all the screen printed stuff at one time - so "Ta Dahhh!"

They're backed with vintage fabric, and even though they suggest eating, I'd say they're pretty good for drinking (please don't eat felt). 

I bought the grey wool felt with this project in mind, but didn't know how it would work, so I bought some acrylic felt for the test run. Ahem! I mean "recycled" felt. Both variations worked great!

Why the "Eat Me" design, you ask? Well, #1 - cake is delicious. And #2 - I originally came up with this design when my theater company did an Alice in Wonderland - themed fundraiser. I had big plans to sell Alice-themed crafty wares, but that didn't really pan out. My screen printing class gave new life to the old idea!

The fruits of my screen printing - Girl Scout Tote

Remember that screen printing class I took this summer? Last weekend I finally got everything together and sewed up a few tote bags out of the Girl Scout fabric.

There are two colors - mushroom and magenta. I must say I'm kinda partial to the mushroom. 

They are lined with vintage material (sheets, my favorite), with a little patch pocket that matches. And I finally remembered to use my new woven labels!

I really went for an easy construction with these - note the webbed handles. I knew I didn't want to screen print on pre-made bags, but I also didn't want to spend a ton of time sewing. A fine balance. 

I am sooo happy with how these turned out - I want to start using one immediately. However, I will resist - they will be in the shop sometime next week!

the girl scouts return

So I'm still working on the finished products from my screen printing class back in July, but I did finish up this little pillow for myself. 

I printed in a few different colors on this grey felt, and for the most part I loved the result. But this yellow color... it just doesn't really show up. It was too light for the darker fabric, but if you look closely you can see its the girl scouts print. So this little pillow is for me!

I backed it with my favorite vintage sheet and trimmed it with some vintage fringe trim, procured from a friend's grandmother. Those grandmothers - they know where it's at.

screen printing fun!

A few fun snapshots from my screen printing class this week.

Getting ready to do my first test print.

The Scouts - this is the print I am most excited about. It came out so clear!

And the Alice-themed designs.

I am so excited to turn these into something fun. I have a finished product in mind - but I'd love to hear what you would do with these!

new skillz - screen printing!

I'm really excited, because I'm taking a new class - screen printing! I'm in the 4-week beginning class at Lillstreet Arts Center, taught by Camille Canales, who is a lot of fun.

Camille demonstrating how to put emulsion on screens

Since it's a 4-week class, it moves pretty quickly, and last night we learned out how to clean our screens, coat them with emulsion and burn our images onto our screens. It was really fun watching the images come out:

Can you see what's on mine? It's something I've been playing around with for awhile now, so I'm excited to see how it works out when printed!