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designing your own fabric
Second completed project of the week is a little protective sleeve for my mum's Amazon Fire tablet. A few weeks back, mum had a go at painting with acrylic on to some scraps of pale blue leather and there was just enough leather to wrap round her tablet that we bought her for Christmas. I added a couple of rivets at the top corners for stability. And voila!
So, I have 2 weeks off before I start a new job and the sun is shining! It's a perfect opportunity for a bit of screen printing on some old clothes to give them a new lease of life!
First up, an H&M draped jacket that is made out of an oatmeal coloured organic cotton. I must have spilt my lunch down myself one day, because there are some grease marks on the lapels...
I screen printed across the full length of the lapels covering over the grease marks using my Rennie Mackintosh screen print (see earlier posts for other applications of this design) in white ink.
Less than 15 minutes later and the end result looks pretty effective (and definitely hides my messy eating habits!).
I couldn't wait to start on another Named Laurie Striped Tee after my successful test run! But this time I wanted to use some fabric that I had printed myself!
One of the main reasons for getting into sewing clothes was to make something out of fabric that I had designed and printed myself. A few years back I went on a fantastic textile printing course at the Central Saint Martins in London, where I learnt loads of different printing techniques.
I designed this fabric from some photos of exotic fish, which I screen printed on to some lightweight grey jersey. Lucky for me there was just enough material to make my Laurie tee!
I screen printed the pattern a bit haphazardly on the fabric, so the pleats really helped to bring out a more effective pattern! Another successful sew :) but it's a shame I don't have any more fabric left to make something else...
