Print Gocco! Go Coooooo!

Alright, well sorry about the title, I got a little excited there... I'm not sure how long you readers out there have been reading... but this past summer I bought I print gocco... and it made me happy... but what to make.. what to print? I had no idea... well it dawned on me and here she be. Lots of printing! I was hem hawing around about business cards.. something I've been really indecisive about. I really just don't like the idea of going to office max or some such thing for my business cards that will be promoting my handmade/fine art/organic fibers business. That just seems like a huge contradiction. Anyway, I was thinking about silk screening on some recycled paper... And then it hit me! I have a print gocco, it's the perfect size, and I also have old card catalogs that I have been wanting to use for something but nothing in particular, which are also the perfect size. These are the pictures after an hour of printing.














































































I then proceeded to print on just about anything I could... Vellum for instance...













Craft Paper...













Muslin.... and I would say that I like this one the best outside of the library catalog cards... although I'm not exactly sure what I would use it for...












When I cut them I can fold them to make a little plate card or just unfolded as a single business card with space for a personal note/message...












And I can also print them again to get a whole lot of little tags for products...












And I can use the bottom half, when the catalog cards are cut in half, as another product tag, but folded to put information about fiber content/price/weight... that kind of thing. Because they were catalog cards they already have a whole punch.













I also took a picture of the yarn while it was drying... I was impatient... Anyway, it's all tangled up because I yet again forgot to tie it. The worsted isn't so bad, but the sock yarn is going to give me a headache. It will be worth it though. The colors turned out great. A beautiful brownish grey and a deep chocolate brown.... I can't wait to knit it. I do really need to get a drying rack... like one of those folding ones for cloths. That would be perfect.












I have been working extra this week so I decided to spend a little bit of this money I have been hoarding and get two skeins of organic bulky undyed yarn... I want to say it's alpaca. But what to dye it with? I have been tooling around with the idea of lettuce. I read in my book... which has kind of become my natural dyeing bible... that you can get a bright yellow-green with tin and an avocado green with iron... Which one? Well I suppose because I have contaminated my pot with iron I better go for the avocado green.

Well I need to head off to the studio and do some more little paintings. I will post more pictures of the new ones on Wednesday (I did 5 on Saturday). And hopefully the yarn will be dry by then and I can post pictures of it.

Have a good couple of days everyone!