Create Your Own Beautiful Scarves!!!

SUPPLIES:

Silk Scarf - call Dharma Trading company at (800) 542-5227 to get their catalog
Sharp pair of sewing scissors
Sherrill Kahn's Travel Paint Studio (which can be ordered from our website). It is $70 plus shipping and has 42 bottles of paint.
There is more than enough paint to do many projects including several scarves.
- Jacquard's Dye-na-flow paint
  (8 colors are included in the paint studio)
- Jacquard's Textile Paint
  (11 colors are included in the paint studio)
- Jacquard's Lumiere Paint
  (7 colors are included in the paint studio)
Spray bottle
Freezer paper to cover your work surface
Plastic wrap or waxed paper
Two water containers about the size of large Cool Whip Containers
Paper Towels---fold them individually in half. Have about 15 or 20
Hydrophilic sponge---this is a sponge that does not harden. You can purchase it at Home Depot or other Home supply stores in the paint and wallpaper departments. It is yellow orange in color and about 7" x 3" x 1 ½". Cut the sponge into squares about 1" x 1" to 1 ½" x 1 ½"
Old shirt to cover your clothing
Plastic to cover your work surface
Steam iron and ironing board

PROCESS:

Step One: Open the plastic sleeve containing the scarf. Carefully cut the label from the scarf with a sharp pair of sewing scissors. If you want to paint more than one scarf at a time (I usually paint two or three scarves at a time) prepare two or three scarves for painting.

Step Two: Iron the wrinkles out of the scarf or scarves with a steam iron.

Step Three: Spray the scarf or scarves with water. You can paint more than one scarf at a time if you wish.

Step Four: You can either lay the scarf or scarves flat on your freezer paper surface, or you can scrunch the scarf or scarves.

Step Five: In this photograph, I am painting three scarves at once. I have sprayed all of them with water. Squeeze a variety of Dye-na-flow colors onto the scrunched scarves. I used several colors from the Travel Paint Studio.

Step Six: Flatten the scarves out on the surface and squeeze lines of Dye-na-flow on top of the dye that you have already applied.

Step Seven: Apply additional colors to the flattened scarves using Dye-na-flow.

Step Eight: Scrunch the stack of scarves into a plastic container. Cover the container with plastic wrap or waxed paper. Let the scarves sit for several hours.

Step Nine: Take the scarves from the plastic container. Separate the scarves and let them dry.

Step Ten: Iron the scarves very well with a steam iron. This will heatset the Dye-na-flow onto the scarves.

Step Eleven: Rubber stamp a triangle pattern onto one of the scarves using the triangle pattern from Set 117 from "Impress Me" rubber stamps. I used a variety of Lumiere colors sponged onto the rubber stamp. I stamped the patterns onto the dyed scarf.

Step Twelve: Apply additional colors of Lumiere with the rubber stamped triangle pattern. I covered the entire scarf with the triangle pattern.

Step Thirteen: After the Lumiere triangle stamped patterns have dried, add glazes of color using Jacquard Textile Paint. To create a glaze, squeeze the chosen color onto the sponge square and apply over the stamping and the dyed scarf. The colors beneath will show through and be affected by the glaze color.

Step Fourteen: Repeat the glazing as desired.

Step Fifteen: Heat set the scarves with a steam iron.

You have created a wonderful dyed and rubber stamped scarf.
Now you are ready to start another one!!!
Have Fun!!!