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General Category => Pattern Requests. => Topic started by: dirts on May 19, 2013, 08:51:13 am
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This Spring my good friends and I sat on the front porch of their cabin drinking coffee and boiling down Maple tree sap. The sugary vapor mist coming off the pot was a delight to smell and to mix that with the sight of the great northwoods and wonderful conversation made it a fantastic experience. Not to mention the homemade buttermilk pancakes douced will syrup and homemade bacon infused pork sausage. Life is good. This is one time you can watch the pot boil. During the summer my favorite treat at a drive in in the next town is a maple syrup shake.
I'm looking for a Maple syrup pattern of maple leaf and syrup bucket hanging on a tree or something simple that I can use for a scroll saw print for T-shirts.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You.
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Do you make a stencil to spray through, or is it more like a stamp, to print your shirts?
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First I cut my pattern out of 1/4 low grade plywood. Then I lay it on the 1/4 surplus wood and then trace the pattern with a big washer and a pencil. I then cut out the backing and glue the pattern to the backing. I get my shirts from walmart and I wash them first. I then lay the shirt on a flat surface and put a regular piece of cardbard inside the shirt to protect the back of paint and also use reg brown cardboard for the equal pressure when pushing down. I then take my fabric paint and add elienes glue to it. I don't use glo or puff paints. I then squirt the paint on the pattern and roll it all over the pattern. I try to get it as thick as I can. Then I visually center the pattern and then lay it on the shirt and push and compress it with all my weight. Make sure your hands are free of paint so when you pick the pattern up you don't put paint mess on the shirt. I then pick up the pattern from one side in one movement. I sometimes have my son hold the shirt on the start where I start lifting the pattern so the shirt peels away from the pattern. Remember that this is like a woodblock print and not a screen print. The print is art and is how it prints. You don't go back to touch it up. I pick up the shirt with clean hands and the cardboard will fall out and I walk it over to a chair with a back and put the back of the chair inside the shirt and let it hang on the chair to dry. Then after it dries I throw it in the dryer to fix it. I like patterns that are simple and wide cuts so the paint does not block up the small cut. Mark the vertical center of the pattern on the backing so its visible when your visially centering the print.
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Got it. Sounds like a well developed process. I agree that the "take" of the pattern ink on the shirt is part of the charm.
I will see what I can find.
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here's something to look at. I'll keep looking.
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When I first started this I was looking at woodcut prints. I started with alot of Lori Irish wildlife. In fact the weekend I started printing shirts my handicapped son had me print approx twelve of his shirts and some sweatshirts. All I would hear is I want a wolf on this one, an eagle on this one, a muskie on this one and on and on. I was wearing a tree of life shirt last weekend when someone commented how neat that was.
I usually enlarge the pattern to fill my chest area and I wear a 4X. I clean my pattern after each time I print a shirt or I wash the paint off.
I was wearing what I thought was a largemouth bass on when when I walked into a Feed store and the guy said thats a t===. A rare fish only found off the coast of Africa. I was amazed. I see that alot were patterns are mislabeled but this did look like a bass to me too.
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Thank You so much for the pattern. I found a natural outline of a Maple leaf and inserted the tree and bucket portion of the pattern inside that leaf.
Thank You for all your help. It will make a great T-shirt. I also have a Honey bee pattern that I got from Sue Mey. I have to enlarge and cut that one out for a pattern. I'm thinking our beekeeper's club might like that.
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Please post a picture of your shirt when you have it.
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Please share several pics of your shirts sounds like you have a great idea.