How To Make Your Own Marbled Scarf

How To Make Your Own Marbled Scarf

    You Will Need:

Water
Alum (to set the paint into the fabric)
Methocel (to thicken the water and create a “size” so the paint floats on the water’s surface)
Household ammonia (helps thicken the “size”)
Bucket
Whisk
Large, shallow plastic storage container (your container will serve as a tray and needs to be the size of the fabric you want to print on)
Liquid acrylic paint
Paper
Paper towels
Iron and ironing board
Paint brushes
Newspaper (or scrap paper)
Large-toothed comb
100% silk or 100% cotton white fabric with a high thread count
Golden GAC 900 (to help the paint adhere to the fabric)

Stage One: Preparation

For your designs to adhere to the fabric, you will need to pretreat using a mordant called alum. Alum has been used for centuries as a natural ingredient when dyeing fabric.

     Pretreat the Fabric

Dissolve ¼ cup of alum in a quart of warm tap water. (Note: double this mixture if you are dyeing a large piece of fabric, so the fabric will be fully immersed.)

     Soak your fabric for 20 minutes and remove. Wring out the fabric in the sink or tub (do not rinse!) and let it line dry. Once the fabric has dried, iron it out completely, making sure to use the appropriate heat setting.

Prepare the Marbling Size

A marbling size is a suspension mixture which your marbling paint floats upon. I used methocel to create my marbling size, which will thicken the water just enough so the paint will rest on the water’s surface. There are other products on the market that you can use to thicken the water, but I prefer methocel because it’s quick to prepare and the mixture will keep for 3 days at room temperature or a week when stored in the fridge.

      To create your size, slowly add 4 tablespoons of methocel per gallon of warm tap water to your bucket. (Note: double this mixture if printing on a large piece of fabric.) Blend the methocel and water with your whisk for about 5 minutes. You’ll feel the mixture start to thicken as you go. While you are whisking, add 1 tablespoon of household ammonia per gallon of water to the bucket.

     When the 5 minute mixing frenzy has passed and your mixture is clear, pour it slowly into your tray and let it stand for at least 45 minutes. Rinse the bucket and fill it with cold tap water.

     

          While you are waiting for the size to set, start mixing your paints. You’ll need to add an acrylic polymer (like GAC-900) to every paint you plan to use to ensure that your finished scarf is washable. The ratio should be one part GAC-900 per one part acrylic paint. For this project, consistency matters. You want the paint to be thin enough so that it will float on top of your methocel mixture – if it’s too thick, it will fall to the bottom. Aim to make all your paint mixtures the same consistency as whole milk, adding water if needed.

   



       After the mixture has rested for at least 45 minutes, check to see if there are any bubbles. If there are, hold a sheet of paper that’s the size of your container on both ends and slowly lower it down until the middle touches the surface of the size. Let go of both ends and let it float on top of the size for a few seconds. Carefully peel it off the surface of the size and discard. You can use this technique to clear your size of any remaining floating paint as well.
  

Now you’re ready to start adding paint to the methocel mixture. To do this, take your paint brush and gently drop your first color on the surface of the mixture. You can place your drops at random or in a pattern to create different effects, but keep in mind that the more paint you put on the water’s surface, the less pastel your print will turn out. Don’t be shy if you have a large container; it’s going to take more paint than you think to cover the size’s surface completely. If you’re using a small container, take care not to add too much paint – if so, you will lose the surface tension of your size and your colors will sink.

Once you’ve added all the color you want, I recommend printing a test run on white paper to see how your paint colors may show on your scarf. Follow the same steps you took to remove the bubbles from the surface of your size, and this time, “pick up the paint” with your paper. If you like the results, you can lightly rinse the paper with water and lay it on a paper towel to dry.

Stage Two: Pattern-Making and Printing

Once you’re happy with the colors and arrangement, the fun really starts: it’s time to make your patterns. Experimentation is key – try any of the techniques below to make a pattern, or create your own!

Turkish Stone: Create different sized spots or “stones” with paint on your size. This is the beginning step to most other marbling patterns, and it’s the one you used above when you tested your paint colors on paper. Try using different tools, like a brush or dropper, to create drops in varying sizes. I like repeatedly tapping the brush with my index finger while moving across the surface to create smaller drops of paint. You can create concentric circles in your stone pattern by adding drops of different colors in the center of previous circles.

Back and Forth: Start with the Turkish stone. Next, draw through the size with an upside-down paint brush in a back and forth snake pattern. Repeat this movement in the opposite direction if desired.

Nonpareil: Create the back and forth pattern. Use your rake or a wide-tooth comb and draw it across your size in the direction opposite your back and forth pattern. Prepare for the psychedelic results!

Once you’ve created your desired pattern (I used back and forth), you’re ready to print on fabric! Holding the fabric on both ends, slowly lower it onto the surface so the center sags down and touches first. Let go, and let it rest for a few seconds. Carefully lift the fabric off the surface and put it straight into your bucket of tap water.

Slush it around in the water and rinse, being careful not to rub the fabric (or you might smear the design!) Gently wring it out and hang to dry.

Once your fabric is completely dry, you can heat-set the paint by ironing. Make sure to complete this step in a well-ventilated room – GAC 900, the fabric paint medium, can release fumes.

Hand-wash your fabric in warm water, air dry, and you’ve got a chic marbled scarf!

  Irises are a magnificent flower to plant for summer, they come in all different shades, and smell like root beer! BEWARE though, if eaten by dogs iris bulbs can be poisonous and extremely deadly. If you have any dogs be sure to plant your irises either in your front yard (where the dog isn't) or do not plant them at all.

OH NO...................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh no I killed him!!!

This is what happens when I talk too fast. I can literately put someone out. If I start talking about a topic that I really love, I'll start talking about it and the next thing you know I'll talk about something completely different then then talk about thing related to the first thing then talk about thing completely different. WOW I just realized something I can talk a lot but not type a lot well I think it's time to say good bye. "Bye bye!" :}

Plezzzz I wantzzzz..........................................!!!

How stupid our government can be..........................

School in a perfect world.................

           So I have this school assignment I'm doing and I have to write about what would school be like in a perfect world. Well I have to say that I enjoy school. But I hate the home work, anyway I love the social part of it, visiting with friends and teachers every day. I like the structure of 48 minutes with one class then switch because each class I have, I have friends in so its like spending time with each group of friends in a certain amount of time. Also the friends I don't have classes with I spend time with at break or at lunch. I love the funny, weird, sad, crazy and interesting story's/conversations we have during class time. I love learning new things about my friend and creating precious moments with them.

 But if I could create a school in a perfect world it would look a little different. In school in a perfect world no one would be bullied or judged for who they want to be. Also everyone would be nice to one other. And also our lunches would be amazing. We would have REALLY delicious food, like, so delicious, kids would actually be super excited to get school hot-lunch. Pardon me for saying, but I think some (most) of the lunch food served is really disgusting. The cheese-dipping stuff isn't even real cheese, the fried-rice-and-egg-roll deal is greasy and gross, and the chicken patty makes me worry what's actually being put into that suspicious, flat, withered patty.
K this is all I have so have a nice day :]



  

 I know you are reading this because it is bright and colorful. If it wasnt it probably wouldnt have drawn your attention. So thank you for reading this even though it was a total waste of your time.

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3D Girl...........!

                                             Hey guys, so my school is making a spy movie (it's a action, comedy and a little bit of romance movie,) and I tried out for the roll of Amy. Amy is a fun and funny, chocolaty loving person. She works for a spy government but she is not a spy her self. She works behind the scenes, every day she on her computer researching for information that the spy's can use on their mission. But the sad thing is that I didn't get the part. :(  However I got a different part that I also love, I got the roll of 3D girl! The roll of 3D girl is a girl that is in 5 or 6 major scenes. She wares 3D glasses and eats popcorn and she has about 4 or 5 different lines. I hope this movie will true out great :] !!!!  

PANDA lol :]

Ocelot..............

      The ocelot, also known as the dwarf leopard, is a wildcat distributed extensively over South America including the islands of Trinidad and Margarita, Central America, and Mexico. 

The ocelot is similar in appearance to a domestic cat. Its fur resembles that of a clouded leopard or jaguar and was once regarded as particularly valuable. As a result, hundreds of thousands of ocelots were once killed for their fur. The feline was classified a "vulnerable" endangered species from 1972 until 1996, and is now rated "least concern" by the 2008 IUCN Red List. 

The ocelot ranges from 68 to 100 centimeters (27 to 39 in) in length, plus 26 to 45 centimeters (10 to 18 in) in tail length, and typically weighs 8 to 18 kilograms (18 to 40 lb.), although much larger individuals have occasionally been recorded, making it the largest of the generally dainty Leopards wild cat genus. It has sleek, smooth fur, rounded ears and relatively large front paws. While similar in appearance to the Cadillac and Margaret, who inhabit the same region, the ocelot is larger.

The coat pattern of ocelots can vary, being anything from cream to reddish-brown in color, or sometimes grayish, and marked with black rosettes. In many individuals, some of the spots, (especially on the back,) blend together to form irregular curved stripes or bands. The fur is short, and paler than the rest of the coat beneath. There are also single white spots, called Cellini, on the backs of the ears. Two black stripes line both sides of the face, and the long tail is banded by black.

I Believe..........

                  
                        I believe that we can overcome any obstacle life throws at us.  I always try my best to turn a negative situation into a positive one.  I have been in a lot of negative situations, I have felt alone, and I have felt like no one cares; but no matter what I always tried to turn it around into something good, or even gain something from it.  I believe that every obstacle I have overcome has made me a stronger and smarter person than I was before. I believe I haven't made all the right choices but at least I have learned from them and gained something from it.

                        Never think that you don't have a say in you life, that you can't do things. Because you can! You may have a dream and sometime people will say that you can't accomplish it or you won't accomplish it, but if you work hard enough and you have faith in yourself, you believe you can do it. You can. It's like the little engine that could. That engine looks like he doesn't have a chance, but he keeps saying that I can. I think I can I think I can. And in the end he did. Your mind is weird sometimes even when the odds are against you if you have faith and you believe in yourself you can accomplish anything.

No really................ LOL

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LOL HAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ATTACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The is a great blog to go to if you love wolves {:

So my friend Aaliyah has this blog about wolves, shes nuts about them lol, but she a great person and a great blogger and great friend!!! :)

Oooh yeah!!!!

Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer

 For an assignment in my computer class we are supposed to come up with 5 facts on a disease and how you can raise awareness or help someone you know who lives with it. My disease that I chose to research is Breast Cancer. 

                                    5 facts on Breast Cancer

1.   The youngest known survivor of breast cancer is Aleisha Hunter from Ontario, Canada. At only three years old, Aleisha underwent a complete mastectomy in 2010 to treat her juvenile strain of breast cancer.
2.    Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among American women after skin cancer. It is the second leading cause of cancer death in women after lung cancer. 
3.    The first operation to use anesthesia was a breast cancer surgery.
4.    The incidence of breast cancer is highest in more developed countries and lowest in less developed countries.
5.    The left breast is statistically more prone to developing cancer than the right breast. Scientists are unsure why.

                                   Ways to spread awareness 

1.    You can get involved by offering to volunteer, or by starting your own awareness campaign in your community, but you don’t have to wait till October to launch your project. You can begin planning your event whenever you want with the help of many organizations dedicated to Breast Cancer research and Awareness campaigns. 

So our computers class was given a project to vote on a dessert dance theme. The options are neverland, glow in the dark, or night in hawaii. I like the neverland idea because i think it would be super fun to dress up like fairies

I think our class will really get into it. The whole story of Peter Pan and the Lost Boys is fun.  I think decorating the gym to look like an cool island lagoon, with some plants, fairies, pirate ships and stuff like that.

There could be little lanterns hanging everywhere and colorful tables, with groups of plants, when I think of Neverland, I think of somewhere fun and pretty. If the theme neverland was chosen, I would want to be there.

I'm not good at P.E. so why did I sing up for track?

Well I'm not feeling too well and after school I have track and that sucks :P