Hydrangea Silkscreen, Part One

I’ve seen various takes on this on the Internet recently – using embroidery hoops as a frame to screen print fabrics. Here’s one good tutorial I just scouted out via Pinterest: “Easy Silkscreen Tutorial” from sweet things(s).

The short version is that you create your artwork, transfer it with pencil to sheer material stretched in an embroidery hoop, block out the negative space with Mod Podge (decoupage medium), and use fabric ink or paint to transfer your design. Since I guess I don’t always like to do things the easy way I’m going to try it, but using three colors instead of one.

Here’s the artwork – I will use green for the leaves and two different colors of blue/purple for the flowers. I still haven’t decided what to print onto yet.