Here’s my first finished silkscreened t-shirt. Note me in the middle with my Blow-Pop. I was going for a whole late nineties raver thing… or I was too lazy to take it out of my mouth. My tongue is blue!
I learned some important things on this attempt:
Most importantly, that a pastel shade of acrylic paint doesn’t show up too well on vibrant coloured fabric.
Also that if you are ironing on the floor (due to lack of appropriate board), your cat will invariably want to see what you’re doing, and come very close to burning its tiny-little-self.
Another is that it is very hard to take a proper picture of yourself in a tiny bathroom (and if you get your boyfriend to help, he will not understand what you want, and then just end up making you look fat).
But I will spare you from turning this into “everything I need to know in life I learned while silkscreening”.
Next up, I’m thinking of trying to find some cheap but cute white cotton underwear, and emblazoning my name on the butt (so I don’t forget who I am). This all depends on me being able to find cheap but cute white cotton underwear. What ever happened to the stuff we all wore as little girls? Why don’t they still make those? They were both cute and comfortable. Everything I find these days is incredibly expensive, incredibly matronly, or incredibly poorly engineered. Actually, I have a few cute Betty-Boop pairs from H&M, but they’re not plain, they have Betty Boop on them.
Enough about my underwear! Geez, I’m gonna get some weird Google hits outta this one.