All right before we even start the printing process, the thing we need to do is get some good materials in hand. And these are some of my favorite materials right now. Of course starting with just the simple pencil and paper for creating our initial designs and drawings before we move into the printing process, and once we do move to the printing process, you'll need a linoleum cutter. I especially love the speed ball number one set which includes five different blades. This is what it looks like and all of the blades are included and stored in that handle. You'll also need a linoleum block.

I have come to love the Innova eco carve block because it's super simple to carve. It's it's really smooth. It's kind of moves like butter when you're carving. They come in a variety of sizes. They come in packs of two so it feels like two for the price of one essentially. And it's also made from recycled material.

For this project in particular a fabric of yours Your choice. The only exception is no nylon because the fabric ink doesn't interact well with nylon. So maybe it's a blank t shirt, maybe it's a blank tote bag. In this demonstration I'm going to be using a blank dish towel. For ink, there are two different options, two different routes you can go you can go with speedball water based non toxic fabric ink. This is my favorite, because I love the printing process using this type of ink and I'll go over that later in the class.

But you can also use a stamp pad and I recommend something that is meant for fabric and paper. Ranger archival stamp pad is one option and you might even have that lying around already. You'll also need some sort of inking plate something to put your ink on if you are using the speed ball non toxic ink and I like to use an acrylic sheet that's slightly larger than the block size I'm going to be printing. So in this case you could use an eight inch by 10 inch acrylic sheet. And lastly to heat set your ink to make sure it's permanent, you'll need an iron or a dryer. I've made a materials list of all of these materials and that list is linked in the class description and it includes links over to shops where you can buy everything so that you can go ahead and get your materials ready to go to take this class.

And if you don't have them yet, and you want to just watch the class and see the process then that's great too. Alright, so now that we're ready with our materials, let's get started.