A word of advice
Mar. 4th, 2012 03:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
leanneto any of my SCAdian friends, or just anyone who's considering using stencils on their garb/clothes.
The Tulip precut sticky stencils that they sell at Michaels are really thin and floppy. They stick well for about seven stencils, and then stop sticking well.
With a heavily detailed stencil like those, you really need them to stick well. And for a full hitoe (which is what I'm making), you really need about 10 stencils for the small panels and 20 for the big ones. For those of you counting along at home, that's about 120 stencils.
Yeah, I won't be doing that, not with those stencils. I'm probably going to be freehanding something, or producing my own stencil. Probably freehanding. Not sure what yet.
The Tulip precut sticky stencils that they sell at Michaels are really thin and floppy. They stick well for about seven stencils, and then stop sticking well.
With a heavily detailed stencil like those, you really need them to stick well. And for a full hitoe (which is what I'm making), you really need about 10 stencils for the small panels and 20 for the big ones. For those of you counting along at home, that's about 120 stencils.
Yeah, I won't be doing that, not with those stencils. I'm probably going to be freehanding something, or producing my own stencil. Probably freehanding. Not sure what yet.
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Date: 2012-03-05 03:18 pm (UTC)If it is pulled tight between the bars, it might work OK. The really hard part is those little fiddly bits in the center really need to be *down* or it's all blurry.
I'd be a little concerned about the interaction between the spray adhesive and the paint. Mark also suggested using a glue stick, and I wasn't real sure about that either.
I did muck up a bit of linen, but I had enough to cut another strip, so that wasn't a serious problem. I'm going to use the mucked-up piece as practice for whatever else I do with it.