Good morning. It is a rather rainy morning here - as it has been for the last few days actually. I want the rain to stop so I can get some screen printing done. Last week I managed to practice my printing and I was actually pretty happy with how it went. I needed to get my technique sorted so I cut out a simple little cross and printed onto calico in a gorgeous yellow ink (no pics sorry). When I was confident enough I printed the cross onto tea towels. Very simple but I really like it. I can imagine it folded over an oven rail with just the one cross showing. Sometimes less really is more. The red is beautiful on the natural linen. Black would also be nice, as would a deep blue.
I then decided to resurrect my design that I printed in the screen printing class I took with Thea back in January, tracing over my tea towel to get the pattern. In doing so, by mistake I actually created the reverse design to the one that I printed originally. I think this design might actually work for my store - what do you think?
I also printed the black on natural linen again. Classic.
And then I mixed up a custom corally-pink colour for printing onto the white tea towels. A fresh spring colour.
There are small imperfections on them but I am learning so I'm not going to be too hard on myself. And it shows the hand of the maker, rather than some perfect machine printed tea towel. Which design/colour/tea towel are you drawn too, do you have a favourite?
These look great Julie. I used to love screen printing in high school art class. I think your designs are lovely - simple and classy, exactly what I'd go for. It's funny, when buying tea towels, I think similarly to you and picture how they will 'work' folded over the oven handle :) Some designs don't suit this but yours definitely do and so tick all the boxes for me. How are you enjoying Holly's BYW class?
ReplyDeleteThey are simply lovely. I love the birds in reverse - they look like they are flying full circle. xx
ReplyDeleteAmanda - Thank you. I am enjoying BYW but I just wish I had more time to make the most of it!
ReplyDeleteLovely tea towels ... imperfect is perfect, in my books!
ReplyDeleteI love the first one ... it's a bit Swiss and medical. It's cute.
I really like that bird design. No hand-printed tea-towel is perfect and why would we want it to be? x
ReplyDeleteI love the red birds! You're so clever, these are really awesome xx
ReplyDeletelove the black and linen - the reverse pattern work really well i think!
ReplyDeleteI love the coral - you did a fantastic job!
ReplyDeletevery jealous! i wish i could screen print! they're looking awesome :)
ReplyDeleteany chance you'd take an order of a screenprinting job at all? i need a one-off thing done on some fabric, and don't know anybody (but read your blog religiously!) so if you're interested, i could email to discuss?
Hi Ryan,
ReplyDeleteThank you - Sure, I could take a look at what you would like printed and see if I can handle it. But remember, I'm learning! If you click on my name on this comment it will take you to my profile page where you will find the link to my email.