Silk Monster

The worst part about my third readopted project is that it has two components and I dragged my mom into it with me. Sorry, mom.

Previously abandoned project #3: blue silk integrated into the ceremony decor combined with previously dropped dream #437: screenprinting on fabric.

My mom already made 14 table runners out of the gray-blue dupioni silk that I bought on eBay in the fall (love you, mom!), but we had several yards, and some remnants, left over. I met with my day-of coordinator at the venue, and we decided that it would be awfully nice to have some gray-blue silk curtains for the altar area of the ceremony.

Then, “Are you tying in the blue anywhere else in the ceremony?” she asks me, as we talk about my creamy ivory sheers and twinkle lights. Oh, of course I am, I say as if it’s already done, I’m using fabric with the programs, somehow. Fortunately (for my sanity), we didn’t have enough remnants to make fabric envelopes for the programs, but we did have enough to back the programs in fabric. That presented a problem, though, because I had three pages of text for the program and only enough Arturo stock for two pages per program, so I planned on printing one page two-sided.

Wait… Wouldn’t it be the best of everything to screenprint on the fabric?

Off to Alchemy I went, and I found Sarah, who generously offered to not only screenprint the fabric for me but also adhere it to Heat-n-Bond and trim it to size. Are you kidding me? How did I find this girl?