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Fused-Plastic Book

I reference a "Threadbanger" video about fused plastic.

Here is the aformentioned video:

Snow Day Book!

Guitar Strap Tutorial Video

First Shirt!

I made my first shirt. It was from McCall's 4079 "Three Hour Shirt" pattern. I, however, did not find it to be a three hour project. It took me about two days, but it was my first shirt. 

The project wasn't too tricky. I think the hardest part was finding the packages of snaps I purchased way back before vacation, but that wasn't McCall's fault!

The pattern calls for buttons, but I swapped them out for some pearly snaps, and that went pretty well, but nobody told me how easy it is to crack pearly snaps! I think it'll hold up alright though.

At any rate, I finished it today and I screen printed the bird on the pocket.

Ta-da!

Screen Printing: My First Try

I don't deal with spare time very well.

I have to be busy, always flitting about from one project to the next.

Today's project is screen printing.

I picked up a silk-screen skit at a craft store in Ohio over the holidays. I had been looking for one for years, but apparently they aren't in high demand on the Eastern Shore of Maryland because nobody has them.

Today, I finally got it out and started working with it.

I started by finding some source pictures on the internet. I wanted to do some birds and also I wanted to experiment with some wind turbine designs. Then I traced those designs right onto the screen with a pencil. I filled the outlines in with "Drawing Fluid." After that stuff dried, I squeegeed the "Screen Filler" across the screen. After that dried, I washed out the "Drawing Fluid," and I let the screen dry again. Then I was ready for a test drive!

I have six flour-sack towels that I use to dry my handmade papers. I often get confused mid process about which towels are wet and which are still dry because they all look alike. I was thinking about just Sharpie-ing some numbers on them, but with the screen, I had a better idea. I used the towels as my test runs to see how the screen printing process would turn out.

After moderate success with a couple of the towels, I tried a handkerchief or two.

Here are some snaps of the results!