A while back I made my own t-shirt yarn and I finally had a chance to use it, I'd tried using it at home but the needles I have aren't big enough and it just didn't work, so when I got to college I found some of the biggest needles and started by casting on 5 stitches, I really enjoyed doing this and I like how the bigger needles made it softer than one of my other pieces where I used slightly smaller needles. If I were to do this again I would probably cast on more stitches so it would be wider.
The t-shirt I used to make the yarn had an image on the front and you can see parts of it and I think it looks quite good in a way rather than it just being plain.
For my FMP I wanted to do a repeat print, I decided that I wanted to do it as though Alice is falling down the rabbit hole along with various things I've looked at throughout this project. I drew my design in pencil and decide on my colours and then got Kathryn to help me to get it to repeat. I then got some tracing paper and started to block out my first colour, its easier if you start with the colour you have the least of and work up to the one with the most. I started with my red screen and put on my registration points on so that it would line up with put on the screens. The next one I did was my gold and pink, when it comes to using this screen ill have to tape off either the pink or gold parts depending on which colours I want to use. When I came in a few days later to finish this someone had moved my tracings so it was out of line, this meant I had to spend quite a while trying to line it all up again and I'm lucky that id put on my registration points. Once id sorted this out I did my blue and then my black, the black took the longest and I had to have a little help on blocking it out. when id finished I gave it to the print technician and she transfers it onto screens for me.
