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Today I screen-prin­ted some patches. When I’ve done screen-print­ing before it’s been with prop­er facil­it­ies, not on my dad’s news­pa­per-covered kitchen table, with a cheap kit I got in the clear­ance sale, so I was a bit nervous. Prepar­ing the screen and print­ing is a lot more fiddly when you don’t have a light table, spray wash­er or anything to rest the print on except a piece of card­board. I thought that I’d messed up my screen when I was rins­ing the emul­sion after expos­ing it, and the water suddenly turned hot.

A small amount of emul­sion did come off, but it was small enough to fix with some mask­ing fluid.  The main prob­lem was actu­ally when it came to print­ing. The fabric ink that came with the set kept drying on the screen in seconds, and I had to wash it twice to stop the prints going faint. I had a fair few rejec­ted patches that were too light or had a faint corner. These ones are for my friend Tukru to take for a stall she’s doing on Sunday. I kept the artwork on the screen, so next week I’ll get some better qual­ity ink (prob­ably in a differ­ent colour, I used blue because it’s what I had) and print lots more. They will be avail­able to buy mail order at £2+postage, along with any leftovers from Sunday.

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