As my laser cutting idea didn't work with the fabric i had chosen, i needed to make a new plan of how to get my pattern onto my garment. I decided to use a stencil i would hand cut similar to the laser cut one i made. But after a few motif cut outs i realised it would take way too long and i had already invested in the stencil so might as well use it.
I decided on using heat transfer to print on my fabric as it would keep the sheer look instead of a solid, hard look some other printing techniques.
I mixed had to mix the dispersed dyes to create the colour i wanted. So i used 4 tablespoons of brown to ever 7 tablespoons of orange and painted about 6 a2 sheets of the colour.
Once this had dried i was able to use the sheets to print on the 3 meters of silk chiffon.
I had to keep changing the colour sheet after every second transfer to make sure the colour was as strong all round.
it took me about 5 hours to print the entire length of fabric, and it was so frustrating but i was very happy with the result after i had seen it layered on the other fabric samples.
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