Custom hoops

Hi. I'm Vickie Pavone on behalf of Expert Village. In this series we'll be talking about the basics of cross stitching. In this segment we're going to be talking about...

AMANDA CLAIRE: All right, so we've let our screen dry, we let it dry about an hour there was really maybe no need to let it dry that long but in the meantime, you know I got some lunch, I was...

AMANDA CLAIRE: All right, so already we've saved a lot of money. I mean, the embroidery hoops are cheap, this fabric like this can be, you know, sometimes 50 cents a yard. I mean,...

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: 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: All right, so the way--remember think about how silk screening works, okay? You're--it's kind of like having a stencil, but it's at a very fine scale because...

AMANDA CLAIRE: All right, so let's just define what we're going to be doing here today. So we're going to be doing a type of screen printing and there are many different kinds...