Curious Doodles Returns to The Pull

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!

Wedding Ties

So there's going to be a lot of work being posted from my good friend Matt Watson's wedding, but I thought I would start with these. These ties are the result of a collaboration between Laura, aka @Curiousdoodles, and Matt, with me setting up and pulling the prints. Each tie was intended as a gift for the groomsmen, the ushers and the fathers. The green tie, was the tie Matt wore as he was married.

We managed to print the ties with a 156mesh screen, with water based inks and with some tape registration, we were able to tile the pattern across the length of the tie. There was definitely some difficulties to overcome, and the ink didn't always lay evenly but overall we were pretty happy with the end results.

I'm really enjoying helping people print on items beyond t-shirts and loving doing work that holds so much meaning for the people receiving it. As always, let me know if you need any custom screen printing done.

Fresh off the Press! Tweet and Qwack cards!

I've been pretty busy the past two weeks, mostly printing stuff for other people, so it's been nice to have the press to myself the last couple of days, allowing me to get my "Tweet" and "Qwack" cards printed up! These will be available in my shop soon but if you happen to be in downtown portland for First Thursday art walk you can swing by to visit CuriousDoodles and I. We'll be between Kearny and Lovejoy on 13th from about 5pm till 9pm (weather permitting).

I'll also be showcasing a set of limited edition "Monsters v. Robots" wood panel prints tomorrow ( more on those later). So come visit and check out all the great artist and crafters. Thnx.

Reunion Shirts that Don't Suck

This is the second Reunion shirt to come out of The Pull this summer! Super low run ( only 15 shirts made along with a handful of posters) but a lot of fun to draw and print. This was originally design for an AA slate shirt, but do to the hastiness of the job we ended up using these heather gray shirts. While I still like the design, the line work doesn't pop as much as it could and part of me would love to see a second color. Click the image below for a closer look at the details of the illustration!

And speaking of reunion shirts that don't suck, check out this shirt CuriousDoodles recently printed at The Pull.

If anyone needs custom tee's designed/printed, let me know.

A Sneak peak of things to come

This process video is a time lapse of me printing an updated version of my Binary Thank You Cards. This time in A2 format and later today, I go on the look out for appropriate envelopes. They'll be available in my etsy soon but also @ our BlackFriday Event. Come check them out, along with a ton of other goods!

If the above video doesn't work, please check it out here!