Let’s Print.

Yes – it’s just before Christmas – and the pressure is on. I had to get out the old small print table to finish a special gift. It fit’s in my laundry room. Thanks to my husband – first, for moving this table around as much as he has (many years of lugging). And secondly for putting up with drying cloths strewn around the kitchen.




The goal is to have a space set up to keep all of my projects in one area – so we don’t have to live around prints and ink and paper, cloth – etc. It seem to just expand once I open one of may bins that I use to shuffle things about. I’m sure anyone reading this understands the dilemma of “creating” without a designated space.

This is the reality at this point – so I will do my best to contain the fray.

I wanted to post these images to show that you really don’t need a huge space to work printing cloth. The screens need to be small – and I usually don’t work in “repeat” on a true print table. I tend to shuffle around my small table – creating the repeat in a more organic method. The plan is, however, to have my designs printed in a proper method, in true repeat – so to make full yard goods. I will be ready to use these patterns myself – and look forward to making them available for sale.

The one downside to a true repeated cloth is that you cannot engineer the placement of the images like you can when you print specifically for an object. I think this fact will keep me dabbling in printing on my small table – for special projects in the future.

These napkins show how the Large Swirl works so nicely as an individual image – centered on these large napkins. As the napkins are folded the image changes and creates an interesting complimentary geometry between the circle and the square.

I will be putting engineered printed napkins up on my site after Christmas. These are very good quality linen / cotton blend – and last through many washings.