Printing with Soft Scrub

Hi, everyone!

Today in class, Claire gave a quick little tip about printing with Soft Scrub. After class, I dyed some fabric and tested it out -- my results weren't satisfying, but I also don't know how the fabric I used (100% cotton) would discharge with another method.

I did a quick search online, and found the following:

http://sirensurf.blogspot.com/2009/09/diy-t-shirt-printing-softscrub-style.html

...perhaps we can adapt this to be more conducive to the kind of printing most of us do?

-Veronica

Something to think about...

Thank you Elise, Renai and Aaron for the great show ideas generated last weekend. While we are voting I wanted to throw out an idea that came up in the meeting that I wanted us to reconsider. What if for this first show we create work inspired by the winning idea but work within a size restraint. I think this could be a great tool to help unify the work. It could be 12x12 or 15x15 or a rectangle? Take a look at how diverse and great the work looked in the Mesa Contemporary Arts Benefit and think it over. - Brooke

A helpful embroidery site

So, I'll start it off...hopefully everyone received the invitation, I guess you wouldn't be looking here if you hadn't. I've been doing a lot of embroidery lately and was having some problems remembering some of the stitches we learned in Fibers I....and books aren't always the clearest, especially for a left hander. I found this website while looking for some descriptions and I LOVE it so I thought I'd share. They have video instructions for pretty much any stitch you could want!


http://www.needlenthread.com/2006/10/video-library-of-hand-embroidery.html

Scroll down to the bottom to see all the stitches.

Hope you like!

Whitney (i don't know if it's going to tell you I wrote this)