wait a minute!

Ok, so I already made many excuses for the 

mediocrity of my 'hand painting' on the 

dish towel craft. Well, I am proud to say that 

I made some more towels this weekend, for the sake of 

care packages, of course, and I have fine tuned 

the painting.

 Phew! I was really feeling bad about that. 

So, worry not, I will amend the original instructions 

and we can all sleep better tonight. 

First of all, instead of rummaging around in my office for

crochet, I actually went and bought some biggie 

crochets that made me exponentially

 more happy than the first 1/4" crochet.

 

Although, keep in mind if you want to use biggie crochet...

you MUST zig zag the ends considerably before sewing

it down to your towel. Also, heavy drying is no bueno. 

So begins the amending of the original 

smoke I was blowing. 

**First of all, I completely lied when 

I said that I used a brush to brush on the paint

 with the stencils. I use the brush with 

the rubber stamps all the time. I was having a midnight 

brain fart. The reason my stencils looked so fab in the first 

place was because I used a black sponge paint brush. 

duh. 

You can see I switched up the colors too.

**AND! I found a way better fabric paint that I was 

very pleased with that dried and brushed on 

so flat and MATTE! We love matte. 

The culprit - tulip 'soft' fabric paint. find it here. 

The other thing that is so totally great about this 

paint, is that it comes in a four pack of soft

neon colors...orange, pink, blue and green. 

It is like a small miracle when any producer of craft items

actually does it right, so I am very excited about this paint. 

Matte, flat, and soft neons? yes, yes, yes.

 

**Another thing that may be problematic about the

towel tutorial is all of the choices. I think that 

perhaps people don't want choices. They want 

to be directed... and this is why they follow 

a tutorial in the first place(correct me if i'm wrong). 

SO, forget the choices. No more choices for you!

The paint formula that I like is the same as my very

first sample. 

I like a heavy paint job on one side, and a small little touch

on the other... with a small little splash of your 

second color. 

This heavy painted side is where the applique will 

also go. 

Got it??

Of course I could not spread my mediocrity..

so, naturally, the care packages I made feature

beautifully painted towels. Yay!!

Have fun appliqueing!!

Look at this masterpiece drawn on our wall this weekend...

The Joy!