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Fabric Stamping Silk Garments

Mary Shoebridge
Crafty Cruisers
Intermediate Stamping Team Designer

Supplies:

•  A Little Sassy Stamp Set (TAC)
•  Noir Palette Hybrid Ink Pad (Stewart Superior Corporation)
•  Victorian Violet Brilliance Pigment Ink Pad (Tsukineko)
•  One Pair of Silk Pajamas (This pair around $20 at Burlington Coat Factory-Jones of New York)
•  Lightweight Cardboard for making a garment insert (explained below)
•  Post It Note Tape (3M)
•  Post it Notes 2” by 3” (3M)
•  Sturdy Scissors for cutting Cardboard
•  Pencil
•  Stamp Cleaner
•  Iron
•  Aileene’s Thick Designer “Tacky Glue” (Duncan Enterprises ~ Michael’s)
•  Funky Purple Trim (Michael’s) 

Instructions:

1.    Wash silk garment according to the manufacturer’s instructions to remove the fabric sizing. 

2.    Start by making the cardboard insert to fit inside the pajamas or other garment when you are stamping.  Trace around the garment with a pencil and cut out with the scissors.  This works best if you divide the body of the garment from the sleeves.  Make a separate template for the sleeves.  When you have completed the top insert, check to see if it fits and trim if it is too large. After you have finished the top, then do the bottoms.  The insert is to protect the fabric from the ink while you stamp.  You can use the same cardboard template later when you are doing Tee shirts and other fabric stamping.  Once you have a template you can use it over and over again. 

3.    Next, stamp the images from the A Little Sassy set with the Noir Black Ink on the post notes.  Do several of each image.  Six of each image works well.  Take the Post Note Tape and adhere it to the back of each image.  

4.    Place your Pajama top on a flat surface and insert the cardboard template.  Be sure the fabric is smooth as you stamp.  Arrange the Post Notes where you want each design to be.   

5.    Clean your stamps and re-ink with the Brilliance Victorian Violet Pad.  Start at the top of the garment and work your way down one side of the fabric and progress to the other side.  Remove a post note image and stamp in its place.  Save each image and reposition it.  You can change the arrangement of the design as you stamp.  When you have completed the front, the sleeves, the collar and pocket of the top, take out the insert, turn the top over, reinsert the cardboard and stamp the back and the reverse side of the sleeves. 

6.    When the top is completed, do the bottoms the same way.  Heat set both the pajama top and bottom with the iron.  You can iron directly on front side of the garment and this will heat set it. 

7.    Glue some purple fibers to the pocket with the Tacky Glue and your pajamas are finished.  This trim is optional.  You might want to remove this when washing the garment.

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