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7 June, 2008 | Whole Lotta fun fabric printing

I bought Lotta Jansdotter’s book Lotta Prints at the Maker Faire last month and when I saw that she’d be in San Francisco for a “Printing Party,” I knew I had to be there. The party took place at Craft Gym a studio in The City that I’ve been meaning to check out.

I got there about 10 minutes early and there were a few others waiting for the doors to open.

They had set up the tables with fabric paints, brayers, and Lotta’s rubber stamps, stencils, and a few potato stamps.

Lotta called us all to attention with a brilliant four-fingered whistle. Then thanked us for coming and gave a few simple instructions.

We all dove in and tried our hand using various techniques.

Lotta demonstrated the proper way to stencil. Don’t use “paint strokes” just dab at the fabric lightly and build up layers of color.

Here are a few of my favorites that I saw. They were all so wonderfully inspirational.

I love how this person placed background stripes using the brayer directly on the fabric.

The above print made me think of a tropical getaway.

There was wine and Lotta’s friend Alicia did a great job providing fun background music.

Isn’t she adorable?

As time wore on people started getting a little braver and more enthusiastic about embellishing.

This woman stamped the shirt she was wearing!

Lotta also signed copies of her book for us.

She is so creative in everything she does - I love the cute way she signs the books:

She also asked if we could leave half of what we made. She plans on making a collage or quilt out of all the submissions.
In the picture above, my piece is the one in the top right with the “branch” and circles.

A big Thank You to Lotta Jansdotter and everyone who made this event happen. It was a blast!

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