I’ve not done any sun printing since last summer. The sun was out Saturday so I played a bit. If you are new to my blog, I’ve written several posts on sun printing. I started out using craft paint in this post. I also tried Dye-na-Flow in this post. But my favorite paint for this…
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Sun Printing Fabric with Dye-na-Flow
UPDATE: Check out the Sun Printing Tutorials for newer posts. Also, check out this blog post where I compared Dye-Na-Flow to Setacolor. I took advantage of Thursday’s sunshine to do some more sun printing, but this time with Dye-na-Flow. Carol emailed me to say she sun prints with Dye-na-Flow. I’ve used this paint before, but…
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Yesterday I played again in the sun with Setacolor Transparent Paints and Crafters Workshop stencils. I pinned this easy adjustable apron tutorial several months ago. See the directions on Purl Bee here. I made this apron out of canvas drop cloth. Here is what it looked like after I sewed it. Okay but it needed…
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Last weekend, in addition to those handkerchiefs, I also sun printed some fabric. This is so much fun and so easy! I used muslin yardage for this project, but you could also use most any piece of clothing you have in your closet. These paints work on all natural and “most” synthetic fabrics. Setacolor Transparent…
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Last summer I had so much fun with sun printing. If you’ve not read my project from last summer, check it out here. I liked those pieces, but wanted more vibrant color so I headed off to Blick’s to buy some Seta Color Transparent paints. There, I sat on the floor trying to decide on…
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Last year I bought some sunprint paper to print in the sun. I thought it was neat, but the paper is really expensive! I also wanted more colors than blue. I found this tutorial on 3 Creative Studio where I don’t need anything special just fabric, some fabric paint, and things to mask out the…
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