fabric friday: made by me!

 

Here's my first foray into fabric printing. I used my gocco fabric stamper and made some fabric for my pony quilt. I'm pretty happy with it. The colors are not exactly what I wanted, but it was tough with only five colors of fabric ink in the palette. I got all overzealous and cut the strips for my quilt before I had photographed it. D'oh!  But that helps me present an object lesson in what can go wrong if you don't think out your printing pattern ahead of time. As you can see, there are a couple of strips where there is almost nothing. Very wasteful! I got about a quarter of a yard printed before I ran out of ink, for those of you thinking of trying this yourself. I've already got some more fabric ideas floating around in my head, with a few lessons learned under my belt.

FREE STUFF! I made about a dozen patches from the test fabric and the other odd bits. I'm giving them away on a first come, first serve basis. If you'd like one, send me an email  (there's a link on the top left sidebar) with  your snail mail address and I'll pop one in the post to you! Be sure to put "pony patch" in the subject line so I can spot it!  The patches are all spoken for and off to good homes. Thanks everyone!!

Comments

[Blair]

I'm jealous of that freaking Gocco again. This looks just so great, how special a quilt would be using fabric that *you* yourself printed.

[Lauren]

OOH! I want a pony patch!!

[KiWi]

Is the Gocco pretty simple to use? I decided to go with good old-fashioned screen printing because I couldn't tell how complicated or limited the Gocco was. Plus, all of the talk of it being discontinued scared me off a bit.

[miranda]

I'm going to just catch up here! The patches look great... I have had a Gocco for two years but haven't used it yet; now I despair that I will be able to afford a stamp kit while they're still around. Also impressed with all the cool little friends and fabric valentines - and that someone has actually made one of the Mame Wanko dogs. And L's Miss Venus looks great. :)

[LadyLinoleum]

Faboo!

[Gina]

I just ordered my Gocco and I'm waiting for it to arrive! I absolutely adore your print, it's so cute.

[lk]

Thank you so much! It is SO adorable. Maggie nabbed it and of course, I nabbed it back and then Maggie started yowling that I stole her sticker... of course, i'm putting it on her clothing, but really.