Screen Printing

My husband and I own several vintage Porsches, and he belongs to a hot-rod Porsche club. My friend Tracey and I became members this year but the t-shirts that are available for club members start in men’s large. So I started looking around for a way to make two small women’s sized shirts for me & Tracey. I’ve made iron-on transfers in the past, but they feel heavy and tacky when I’ve applied them to fabric. I toyed with getting a gocco printer, but they are more money than I want to spend. Then on the Etsy forum, someone mentioned PhotoEZ, a method for creating a stencil using sunlight & tap water that can then be inked onto fabric . The crucial thing for me was that it allows you to make the stencil from a laser printer output.

Here’s the stencil that I made

EZScreen Stencil

And the first t-shirt (making the stencil was easy; I need practice in applying ink–Tracey’s shirt is much more evenly inked)

tshirt

There are three videos on YouTube explaining how to use the stencil kit: