Tuesday 14 July 2020: Online Workshop (Screenprinting)

Karen Lewis - Tuesday 14 July 2020 - 2.00pm to 5.00pm (BST)

Online Interactive Tutorial: Screenprinting

There are two price-points for this course, a repeat of the one first run by the lovely Karen Lewis on Wednesday 13 May 2020.

Payment of £25.00 will see you gain access to just the Workshop; payment of £45.00 will see you gain access to the Workshop and get a full Kit from Karen ahead of the course. The £45.00 option includes shipping of the Kit to the UK mainland. 

Come and learn the space-friendly, portable, embroidery hoop method of screenprinting. Karen will be teaching you everything you need to be able to print on fabric at home. You will learn all the techniques needed including design, stencil cutting and printing in this fun informative workshop.You will learn how to prepare screens with the stencil cutting method, understand what designs work best with this method, along with techniques to help you get perfect prints every time.

​For this Online Interactive Workshop you will need:-

• Pencil
• Eraser
• Paper scissors
• Fabric scissors
• Plastic spoon
• General purpose masking tape
• A5/A4 cutting mat
• Old towel/wadding that you don’t mind getting paint on - at least FQ size.old credit/store card to use as a squeegee
• Apron/old shirt that you don’t mind getting paint on.
• Old unwanted fabric to practice print on
• Fabric to print on - this doesn’t need to be pre washed. Quilting cotton is best. 

​The following are also needed and are available to purchase as a kit from Karen, if required, via www.karenlewistextiles.com

• Craft knife 
• 6” embroidery hoop 
• Cotton Gauze 
• Water-based acrylic fabric paint for screen printing 
• Newsprint stencil paper 

A percentage of profit from this Workshop will be donated to charity. Tickets for this Online Interactive Workshop (via the Zoom platform) will be limited and allocated on a first-come/first-served basis!

At this stage it's not known if Karen will also run a follow-on Online Interactive Workshop a week or so later, where participants would get the chance to turn their designs into a gorgeous Quilted Tote Bag & Project Bag (as she did on Thursday 21st May 2020), but if that is going to happen, rest assured we'll tell you about it on our website and update all those who buy tickets for the above workshop via email!