Category Archives: printing on fabric

UV Spray

UV Spray
UV Spray
My next experiment was actually to use Krylon’s “Preserve It” to spray my recently printed silkies. I experimented on the “Three Mary’s” since I felt I had used too much color saturation. If it ruined it, I wasn’t going to use it anyway. It didn’t, so yesterday I sprayed the print of Jesus as the Good Shepherd.

The only misgivings I have about the spray is it contains toluene. Because Hurricane Sandy was afoot, (we only got wrap around winds, here,) I sprayed it in the basement, but made sure I scotched the door open for ventilation.

Today’s Experiment

Today’s Experiment
Today’s Experiment

This is not the best photo in the world, but I just want to document what I’ve done. I printed four of the “Bible cover” images on silk charmeuse. Before I printed them, I edited them by increasing the saturation of color for each image. It was too much for the “Three Mary’s.” They look like they’ve found the fiery furnace instead of the empty tomb.

I traced and cut out a 8,1/2″x11″ piece of Wonder Under that I’m going to fuse to the back of the silk after I remove it’s paper backing. Then I’ll cut the images apart and fuse them to the muslin Bible cover foundations. I’ll have to be careful with my iron, not to burn the silk (though that might enhance the look of the “Three Mary’s!”)

Camellia Time in Charlotte!

Camellia Time in Charlotte!
Camellia Time in Charlotte!

This beauty is blooming outside the house where I babysit. I wonder how these blossoms would look printed on fabric and embellished? Or maybe appliqued on a green blender background?

Yellow beads or French knots? Martha Stewart recently aired instructions on making a “burned silk flower.” Hmmmmn? Coral silk? Gold or yellow Angelina film for the stamens?

New Silkies!

New Silkies!
New Silkies!

I printed up these 4 new silkies over the weekend. The photo in the upper right corner is my grandmother’s 1927 college yearbook portrait. She taught me to embroider and crochet so I think a crazy quilt pillow adorned with those two artforms and her portrait are in order.

The red and gold ones are from a book I picked up for $4.00 at the Ooops store in Myrtle Beach this summer. The little blue butterfly is a freebie from Dover Publications.