Yesterday I was able to finish up all of the dyed t-shirts and tea towels. These 4 toddler shirts are for my Grand-niece and were done with the Cricut and heat transfer vinyl. The puppy is glow in the dark! The elephant and owl were pretty complex and I’m thrilled with how they turned out. The happy camper one was a great idea but the shirt needed to be darker for better contrast. I do like the tie-dye look vinyls that I found for the elephant and happy camper. It just works best with the black outline on the elephant.
This is the last one of the 10 that I made for her and it was the most complex because it involved 3 screen printing layers. It did not turn out great but I learned a lot. They can use this one to wash the car or something.
Then I did these shirts for my brother. I like dyeing shirts for him because I can use up my leftover dark dyes. This screen has been holding up great for a couple of years so far and this is the best printing result that I’ve ever gotten on them.
To do the screen printing, I cut the design on permanent vinyl on the Cricut and adhere it to the back of my screen. The designs come straight out of the Cricut library.
Here’s one batch of tea towels that were screen printed with Color Magnet before I dyed them so these were finished in one dyeing step. There are two of each design.
These are the ones that I screen printed yesterday. The colors aren’t quite accurate because of the lighting in my basement, but you get the idea. I have one more pair dyed that haven’t been printed yet but they will get done another time. I have plenty for gift needs at the moment.
That was all a pretty full day’s work!
In other news, on Sunday I made my third loaf of sourdough bread. My second loaf went to my Mom. For this one I substituted sorghum and oat flours for the rice flour. It tastes closer to a whole wheat bread as I remember it.
Today I will get back to quilting the big quilt and start heat setting all the screen printed items.
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