I love the ease with which I can create screen printed fabric on the YUDU. I made a simple leaf design and turned it 180º as I worked across the fabric. I will be turning these into curtains for my sewing room.

You too can screen print using the YUDU~Here is a resource if info and great tutorials:

• Find an introduction to what’s in the box, here >>
• Erin Bassett is a pro. See her video tutorials, here >>
• Find some good tips and tricks, here >>
• Buy more accessories and supplies, here >>

And have fun~I sure do!

Until Tomorrow~Sarah

I love to experiment. I think I get that from my dad who on his days off would spend hours figuring out how to make everything in the house work better. Or when there was nothing to fix, he would sit down with graph paper and draw out schematics for some machine that would change how the world worked…if it ever made it to production that is. In any case, Dad had a lot of fun and that rubbed off on me.

Now I am no engineer, but I sure like to see what happens when I try something new. For instance, last weekend I got out the Yudu and challenged myself to print patterns on yards of fabric. I love to invent patterns and the Yudu offered me the opportunity to produce something tangible from which I can sew something fabulous.

I decided to start out small and print a design I could make into an easy pillow cover. Here it is all finished and sitting on my patio chair, making an otherwise boring piece of furniture cute. There’s Luna the Chicken in the background pecking away at the Dichondra. Below are pictures of the process. Follow this link to a full How To on Printing Patterns on the Yudu.

Now that the first set is done, I let it dry and shifted the fabric to the left to repeat the process.

It’s incredible! My life has just opened into new possibilities… I have been using Photoshop for 20 years or so and never knew I could achieve lines like these…thanks to the Bamboo Craft pad and pen from Wacom. Thick to thin, light to dark, depending on pressure. I whipped out a quick graphic for Michelle to take with her on her trip to Australia where she’s running a Yudu screen printing workshop for Provo Craft. In the past I hit a blank sheet of paper with a marker, scanned it in, cleaned it up, etc, etc. What a time saver. I am getting used to the draw here, see results there, and I look forward to all the fast and fun things I’ll be making.

This design was set up to be printed on the Yudu screen printer. Michelle will have to separate the pink from the black and make 2 screens. I’ll run a demo using this design soon. Check back!

Today I created a pattern from a screen leftover from my trip to South By Southwest. For the trip I screen printed a couple of t-shirts to wear for the demonstrations—vintage amps to celebrate the music—and upon looking at it again I thought a repeat of the design would make a cool pattern.

I cleared off my big table and set up the YUDU with plenty of room to run a yard of fabric through it. Then I taped off just what I wanted, and here is the result. Fun, huh?

It’s a great day—a beautiful Friday and I am going to a music festival at The Sail Inn in Tempe tomorrow. I love all day music events this time of year. Speaking of music, I am totally psyched I got tickets to see Yonder Mountain String Band, Leftover Salmon, and Split Lip Rayfield in August at the Red Rocks Amphetheatre. Lucky me!

Guess what I’ll be doing today?

I just got a big box of YUDU ink colors and I can hardly wait to get at my screen printing this morning. (there’s even a glow-in-the-dark ink!) I am planning to screen print patterns on to fabric I bought at Joann’s and turn it into a bag I will be using at South By Southwest to carry all my goodies around.

Check back in a week and I’ll post the result.