any help would be nice

[hanselgretel-x.livejournal.com]

My friend asked me to make her this dress yet,
I dont know what Im going to do about the cake design
scattered on it.
If I did transfer paper , would it crumble up after a few washes?
I dont want the dress to be ruined.

Comments

[kyra-cat.livejournal.com]

DON'T do it on tee shirt transfer paper. it will crack and your beautiful work will go to waste.

You can get fabric you can run through an inkjet printer and sew or iron on but this tends to fade. other suggestions would be freehand or stenciling in fabric paint OR most expencive/nicest looking option - i asked one of those teeshirt printing places if they'd print onto a duvet cover a long long time ago and they said yes as long as it was crisply ironed. i'd take in the fabric before you sew it with the design (you'd have to draw it yourself) and plead nicely

[hanselgretel-x.livejournal.com]

Ok no tshirt paper.
Iv tried that ink paper...and I washed it the first time and all of it was gone. T__T
Maybe if I watch kamikaze girls again Ill get inspired to freehand it.
Thanks for advice
Knowing me I would have used tshirt paper. lol

[kyra-cat.livejournal.com]

aah teeshirt paper, such a good idea, such a crappy product :'(

If you draw your design on tracing paper, turn it over and outline it in thick pencil and then turn it over again and draw round it again onto the fabric it should push the pencil out onto it so you have an outline. Then just repeat so you have enough fabric for the skirt and colour it in in fabric paint.

This would be neater/easier than freehanding?

[hanselgretel-x.livejournal.com]

Ill have to try that then, this may take some time, but when Im done Ill post it so you can see.
Im new here as you can probably tell so if I make any mistakes please let me know.

[meiki.livejournal.com]

If you wanted to free-hand it, my suggestion is using freezer paper. You just draw what you want on the freezer paper (the not waxy side), cut it out with an exacto knife, iron it on, paint it in, let it dry, and take the freezer paper. Nice clean lines, and it's a lot more precise than just hand painting.

[hanselgretel-x.livejournal.com]

Iv never heard of freezer paper, where could I get it?

[meiki.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure they have it at most grocery stores, around plastic wrap and aluminum foil :D

[hanselgretel-x.livejournal.com]

thats unusual...O_o
Thanks Ill look into it! ^^

[tigergir11333.livejournal.com]

Wax paper is what i think you meant. o.0?

[hanselgretel-x.livejournal.com]

who knows lol

[mind0vermatter.livejournal.com]

Freezer paper is very similar to wax paper, except freezer paper has a thin plastic coating instead of wax. ^^ It does work very well for DIY transfers.

[hanselgretel-x.livejournal.com]

really? -thinks-
Im learning so much haha

[aingli-deas.livejournal.com]

You need a screen printer, it's how they do all these designs. 2nd best option is a heat press (which is like the iron on, but no iron can compare to the heat and the design is permanent where iron ons generally peel off, especially on the bottom of a dress there should be no problems). Both expensive though.

[hanselgretel-x.livejournal.com]

Money flies with me lol
Are these hard to find??

[aingli-deas.livejournal.com]

You can search for them depending on your location, on google or yahoo. Screen printing machines cost about 3,000$-6,000 USD and the heat press costs about 600-3,000$.

But if money flies with you, the prices shouldn't be a problem.

[hanselgretel-x.livejournal.com]

OMG thats alot, I hope my school has one , Most of my money goes to japan . maybe sandy claws will buy me one.

[xxcrazyxangelxx.livejournal.com]

yes, screenprinting is how it's done but you actually have to do a large order for the printers to accept the order - you can't just have one thing printed, they usually have minimum orders of 20 prints or so..

to get the perfect result, you'd want it screenprinted, but if you can find a printers with a die/cam cutter who do heat press, then I'd suggest this - heat press is the best option but they have to cut the entire picture out, so, natually, a computerised cutter is the best way to do this. mostly the printing peeps only print onto black/colours/patterny fabric if the design you want to print is a solid block of colours.

I hope all this was useful...

[hanselgretel-x.livejournal.com]

yes this is very useful
sewing and designing for 5 years and I never knew any of this.
I feel stupid T_T
Thanks ^^

[bride-of-lister.livejournal.com]

Some people or schools have a whole screen printing set-up.

Errr... well mine does and if you get to know the teacher who runs it they might let you do some extra-curricular printing ^^

[hanselgretel-x.livejournal.com]

Me and my sewing teacher are tight.
I take sewing class of course, Ill have to see if she has one.
Thanks ^^

[plasticmonkey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we had a heat press at mine, I think. Foundations of Technology... what a class. XD I took it 4 times, I think. (not because of flunking, but so's I could do each of the modules that i wanted. There were things like plastics, fiber optics, weather, the heat press thing, all sorts of fun things. ^_^)

[hanselgretel-x.livejournal.com]

I hope we have one then
Or Ill beat my teacher with celery sticks.
XD j/k sounds like fun though

[mind0vermatter.livejournal.com]

If it were me, I'd find another fabric with cake designs on it, cut out the cakes, and applique them to the skirt. (That's where you leave an allowance around the edges, iron them down under what you want showing, and sew your piece on that way. It prevents a lot of fraying.)

[hanselgretel-x.livejournal.com]

I hate fraying T__T
thanks ^^

[subjecauxiliar.livejournal.com]

If you are pretty art-savvy, you can hand screenprint. Most good art stores sell a "screenprinting kit" that includes everything (including instructions) on how to do it. The best part about it is that you can take a design from the computer and print it on a transparency, or have it copied, for incredible perfection. Although, if you want to do all those colors and such, you would have to do different runs, one for each color.

The process does take extra effort, but I actually find it really fun! It can be frustrating at first, but once you get going, the practice really pays off. Plus, you can reuse the same screen over and over, and keep a collection of your transparency designs to reuse anytime you want! It's also great for making cute cut-sew type shirt designs and everything.

Okay, this accidentally ended up being really long. I guess the gist is that it is worthwhile if you intend to use it for a bunch of stuff, but if you don't really get into it it can be a money/time-waster. the end.

[hanselgretel-x.livejournal.com]

wow yesh that is long but
good to read
Ha thanks for having a job that way I can get money easily.
^^ Thanks for tip

[j9isawesome.livejournal.com]

screenprinting is quite expensive and rather difficult. I'd suggest stenciling instead. You'd need to make a few stencils, one for all they white and then one for each different color of details that go on top of the white. Yes, you want to use freezer paper. Yes, as weird as it sounds, you find it in the grocery store next to things liek wax paper and ziplock baggies. I've made quite a few stencils with it and it works wonders. If you go to http://www.stencilry.org/ and click tutorials it has just about everything you need to know.