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AMANDA CLAIRE: All right, so now's the scary part we're going to open up a jar of the ink, the fabric screen printing ink. And it is ink which means it's messy, it stains,...

AMANDA CLAIRE: All right, so here's one of my t-shirts and this is just your standard cotton/poly mix t-shirt. With fabric painting, you can print on most fabrics just keep in mind that the...

AMANDA CLAIRE: All right, so the next thing you're going to need to buy is a fabric to use for the screen. Now again, if you were doing traditional screen printing, there's fabrics...

AMANDA CLAIRE: All right. So now you can see I've gotten most of the glue on there. Now, I'm going to show you something sort of terrible. I'm going to flip it over, and you...

AMANDA CLAIRE: All right. I've got the outer borders of all of the blocks of color in my image traced with my pen. And I want to explain a little bit what I mean by that. So this is the image,...

AMANDA CLAIRE: All right. So I've got my piece of fabric. It's about the right size. I'm going to cut the corners off after I have it stretched into the embroidery hoop. So the...

AMANDA CLAIRE: Okay, so one of the first things you're going to need to get are some embroidery hoops and these are really pretty inexpensive. You can get them at, you know, a fabric store,...

AMANDA CLAIRE: So I'm going to go wash my screen out now 'cause I've done four prints and I'm going to want to do some more in the future because these came out really...

AMANDA CLAIRE: Okay, so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to take some of this ink and I've got a little disposable spoon here and I'm not going to put it right on...

AMANDA CLAIRE: All right, so now we want to let it dry--although before I do that I just want to point out that, imagine if we had those little corners those little floppy corners here that we...