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Reverse Engineering A Handbag

Designing A Pattern From Scratch As a rule, when I want to learn how to do something new I learn best by doing. I could read, read and read some more but my learning curve is steeper if I just get my hands dirty and jump in. So last year when I decided to start [...]

Using Strippers and Banishing Ghosts.

All screen printers do it, or at least they should. Once or twice a year I take the time to rejunvenate my screens. I try to wait until I start a brand new collection and when the weather turns nice enough to do outside. It is a labour intensive process but it totally rejunvenates my screens and so I [...]

What does a gorilla, a dumb-dumb and an oil crisis give you?

Pure Inspiration! Let me explain. Gorilla: It’s no secret that I love animals. If you’ve read my life story you’d see that I have had a lifelong passion for them which led me to study animal behavior psychology in university (pre art school). So it’s natural that they are a fairly constant focus of my work [...]

Toronto Outdoor Art Show. I’m In!

The largest outdoor art exhibition in Canada! My July this year will start off in Toronto for the Outdoor Art Show on the 10th, 11th and 12th. I just found out last week that I was accepted into the show. I meant to apply last year but I forgot to send in my application. No [...]

“Print In Fashion” by Marnie Fogg

“Print In Fashion” may actually be worth your money. Even though I disagree with the first 100 words written in the book I think it stands out as a great book to own for anyone who wants to understand how the print industry and the fashion business collide. Most books on prints in fashion are irrelevant long before they [...]

Inspired By Nature?

While on vacation, not working, my mind was having a hard time resisting the urge to not work. Everywhere I went I saw fabulous prints and patterns popping up in nature. It was really gorgeous. And I got to thinking about some of my favorite modernist designers and how they expertly transformed the natural world [...]

Birding and the perfect pattern.

I’m vacationing right now so technically I am not supposed to be working/ blogging but I can hardly stop myself when I’m surrounded by all these amazing prints and patterns that keep popping up in the local wildlife. I learned last year while visiting Florida that birds always sit together facing into the wind. I guess they [...]

Screen Printing Registration Part 3: Fabric Registration

part 1/part 2/ part 3 Here’s how to set up your fabric on your print table so you can print repeating patterns over and over again! Now that you have exposed your screens and are relatively sure that each image has been properly registered you can set up your table registration. You are going to [...]

Screen Printing Registration part 2

Are you ready to start making beautiful lengths of fabric? Then you need to get the skinny on fabric registration! part 1/ part 2/ part 3 This tutorial is the second in a three part series and is the first step in fabric registration. before we can begin to learn how to register a print on the [...]

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Reverse Engineering A Handbag

Using Strippers and Banishing Ghosts.

What does a gorilla, a dumb-dumb and an oil crisis give you?

Toronto Outdoor Art Show. I’m In!

“Print In Fashion” by Marnie Fogg

Inspired By Nature?

Birding and the perfect pattern.

Screen Printing Registration Part 3: Fabric Registration

Screen Printing Registration part 2

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