Preparing Your Screen for Silkscreening T-Shirts

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AMANDA CLAIRE: All right. So the first thing I need to do is to cut a piece of fabric out of this big piece here that will fit this embroidery hoop. And it sounds kind of like a no-brainer, but there's one little concern you want to keep in mind. I'm going to show you this screen that I did before. And, you know, you just see, I just kinda have a piece of that fabric kind of cut, and it's been, you know, inserted into this embroidery hoop. But, you know, and I left some corners and that doesn't--I didn't think that was going to matter. But actually, I probably shouldn't have left corners this big for the following reason, which is that when you are working with the glue or you're working with ink, you know and, these corners kind of flap around. And any time they touch the glue while the glue is wet, you know, while you're making the image or if they touch the ink, it just kinda makes a mess and you're not really controlling your glue or your ink that well and that's actually a problem when you're setting up your image. I mean, actually, when I was setting up this image, I remember, I had the wet glue, like drawing the image on to the fabric with the wet glue, and the corner kind of flipped over and kind of got some glue on it and spread it to somewhere else in the image where I didn't want it, which is kind of a pain in the neck. So all I'm saying is it's really good for this method to trim as much of this off as you can. So you want to cut a piece of fabric that is big enough to stretch over the embroidery hoop, right? 'Cause remember, the embroidery hoop isn't going to work if you don't have some surplus fabric on the edges. So, you do have to cut a couple of inches larger than the circle, kind of, all around just to get it to fit. But then, once you have that piece cut, you might want to kinda cut some of the surplus off the corners so you don't have those little floppy edges. So that's what I'm going to do now. I guess you could measure it if you want to. I'm just going to kinda eyeball it and so just kind of eyeball it maybe about this far here and this far here so I kinda know where my marks are. Actually, I can--why not I'm just going to mark it with a pencil and then I'm going to take my trusty little scissors here and cut out that square and get it mounted into the hoop.

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