Three photos to show a little of the chaos that is our typical Saturday:
Lucian helps Dad make a trellis for our rooftop pole beans
Lucian and I color in and around the lines.
Take 405. Okay, maybe that's an exaggeration. Slight.
Rooftop garden is underway. B spent all day up there with our neighbors planting seedlings in Earthboxes and making a rain barrel. Exciting stuff! We should be well endowed in the vegetable department in a few months, what with this and our Crown Heights CSA share which we’re splitting with our aforementioned roof-gardening neighbors. I have to admit I feel like a real citizen now! Can’t wait for that to start up in June.
Lucian and I have been really digging (pun intended) the new coloring book Jen brought us from Portland. I think it’s the coolest thing ever, and I’m not a fan of coloring books.
And we have to be nearing the end of a spectacular series of failed silkscreen exposures. I had to start keeping a log because of the enormous amount of problems we’ve been having getting a good exposure of Kass and Corn’s invites.
We had a good one, but there was an error in the text they sent us which was very thankfully caught before we made 200 of them!
Beginner’s luck must of been with us for our first few screens. Since then, it’s been frustration on top of heartache. After hours of watching instructional YouTube videos, countless pages of internet advice, and weeks of restretching/reclaiming/re-exposing screens- I THINK we MAY have some answers. A word to the wise: Do NOT switch thread counts on your fabric while making test exposures. Different thread counts require different exposures. (The higher the thread count, the less time is needed.) Also, in our original exposures, we had the inkwell side of the screen facing up. But the most expert seeming guy on YouTube did his with the substrate side up, so now we’ve switched. (Compare the above pic to previous post.) I had an aha moment when I saw this, because many things that I’d read about the light bouncing back up to expose the underside suddenly made sense. 
We are now sticking with an Orange Monofil 200TPI fabric. It seems to be working. Keep your fingers crossed. We need to get these puppies printed!! Plus, I’m dying to get some t-shirts printed. Can’t wait to wear my hissing kitty…
