Posts tagged printing

• 19 Dec

  Blog: ThreadHeads

  Weekly DIY Roundup: Gift Wrapping!

  My last in this series of holiday-related roundups, gift wrapping! Now that you have all (most?) of your holiday shopping and making done, it's time to wrap those gifts, and it would be awesome to put a little extra crafty energy into this part. So I've found a variety of ideas for the paper, boxe

• 11 Aug

  Blog: ThreadHeads

  Super Easy/Kid Friendly Printing

  It's approaching the end of summertime, and if you have kids you might be trying to come up with more projects to entertain them with; or if you have young cousins/nieces/nephews/etc maybe their parents would love you to spend an afternoon crafting with them, yeah?  I love making freezer paper sten

• 15 May

  Blog: ThreadHeads

  Weekly DIY Roundup: Printing on Fabric!

  I thought that contact paper screen printing idea from the podcast last week was fantastic, and since I've had a bit of experience with some different fabric printing techniques, I wanted to show you a bunch of methods you can try out!The concept that sucked me into the printing world in the first p

• 31 Mar

  Blog: ThreadHeads

  Designing Your Own Fabric

  One of my favorite aspects of sewing is the planning stage. I love looking at a pattern and envisioning how it would look in a varitey of fabrics. Most of the time I can find material that will work for the project I have in mind. However, there are times I would love to make something in a fabri

• 12 Mar

  Blog: ThreadHeads

  Print Liberation

  Print Liberation is a pretty rad printing company based out of Philadelphia. Not only are they a full service design company, but they also have some pretty cool pre-designed clothing and accessories. I really like sites like these because since they're a small company, they really take care of thei

• 11 May

  Blog: ThreadHeads

  DIY Screen Printing How-to

  DIY SCREEN PRINTINGINGREDIENTS - embroidery hoop (as big as you want your image to be)- mod podge; water resistant glue- thinly woven mess fabric- fabric ink- computer and printer- pencil- iron- old paint brushFirst, decide on an image and print it out. For this method of screen printing, the simple