When the Fabric Comes In

We'll go into more detail about the printing of our Fabric Panels another time, but we wanted to show you what it looks like when we get out fabric in and some of the steps to make it ready for you to use.

First, we receive a shipment of 100% Kona Cotton from Robert Kaufman.  We primarily print on white and natural colored fabric.

Not very interesting yet, I know.  But this is the foundation for our original hand-printed panels.

Before they are printed, they are cut to size.  We print our panels on fat quarter size (18" x 22") pieces of fabric.  

The lovely Maddie is hand cutting each panel one-by-one on a long table.

 Next, the panels are printed.  Now, this is just the fabric side of the process.  We aren't even getting into the panel design on the computer, film printing and screen making process.  As you can probably tell, there's quite a few steps to making our hand-printed panels.

An old school photo of silk screening at our shop

Our Dear Daughter panel design.

  After the ink is applied by silk screening and has gone through a dryer, the fabric is ready to be folded and packaged.

Maddie folding fabric panels one-by-one

 And now they're ready for you to use!