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♥ Emsie ♥
I have been wanting to overhaul Ash's room for a while now, and once thats done I'll do Jordans.

Now I know exactly what I want to do in both rooms, but do you think I cna find bedding/curtains in the prints I want? I have done about 6 months of googling on both and I'm coming up with nothing.

So I thought, would it be possible for me to buy plain fabric, make up my own stencils and print it myself?

Things I want to know:

will it look 'homemade' and crap?
would it be expensive to do?
is it worth the hassle?
how the bollocks do I do it? laugh.gif
Is there small businesses that do it for you for small amounts? I'm obviously not wanting rolls and rolls of one print, although could be a good business opportunity later on (something I have thought about) but not financially viable for me at the moment!

I do vaguely remember doing screen printing on a small set up in high school (screens and a big, um, windshield wiper blade thing and you squirt the paint and then drag it over, but that was a one colour, one shape job on a plastic bag holder I made for my mum in year 8 laugh.gif which is almost 16 years ago now so memories are very vague!
GirlHunt
Have a look here:

http://www.spoonflower.com/welcome

I know a few people that have used their service and have been happy.
♥ Emsie ♥
Yeah I have looked at that site before, but I'm going to be making curtains and quilt
covers for two rooms so will work out very expensive I'd I'm paying $18-$32 per yard sad.gif
Kir23
I would def do it by screen printing. you should be able to find an easy tute on u tube.
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