It's been a long while since we've had Laura Trimmell of CuriousDoodles out on the press. We were happy to see her come back to The Pull for help with her ever creative line of holiday stationary and fabric goods.
Last Year Laura produced these lovely 28" x 20" 2011 Tea towels, a two color print on an organic cotton canvas tea towel. This year, she decided to do a 1 color print on the same type of tea towels, with the goal of producing some DIY Embroidery kits. This required some really fine printing, as part of the print was supposed to only act as a guide for where people are supposed to embroider. We ended up using a 23" x 31" 320mesh screen. This mesh held the exposure, and better yet, gave crisp clean clear lines.
Originally Laura's design was about 15.5" wide, but a last minute modification brought it to just over 16". Unfortunately, we didn't have any 17" squeegees available, but we found any easy enough resolution, pulling the prints from the side of the platen instead of the front. We also took a little time to review her squeegee technique. Flood first, The Pull the squeegee with even firm pressure at an almost 90˚ angle.
In roughly 4.25 hours, Laura produced about 50ty 16" x 12" prints on her tea towels. About 1.5 hours of that was for setup and cleanup. Here's what the tea towles look like after screen printing, and then after her customers embroider them. Awesome Stuff! You can find out more about these guys by visiting CuriousDoodles Etsy Shop and Blog.
Thanks for printing with us Laura, we hope you had a blast and that you'll be back for reprints soon!
