Wasn’t sure what to call this weeks make. Sarah said she thought it was a bit like Batik but I wasn’t sure that I agreed so I chose the word printing.

Please excuse the photographs. Even though I opted to work through the video on Thursday morning rather than follow live on Wednesday evening, the light was quite appalling and of course the photographs had to be taken as I worked.

This was what we were provided with this week.We had to provide some nail varnish remover and a glass.

Now, believe it or not, I don’t have a standard round straight sided tumbler. My main glasses are octagonal. I have some pint glasses but they are the sort of bigger bulge at the top glasses you can find in pubs. I have various glasses for alcohol of different shapes and sizes but none were suitable. So I looked out the following.A small glass that had almost straight sides and the glass pot from a GU pudding that I used last time; plus, of course, the nail polish remover.

In the end I decided that the glass was too small and used the pot.As you can see: we had to secure a part of the cloth over the glass with the elastic band.

I actually watched the video right through before starting. It did not seem something that it would have been easy to do sitting at my desk. So when I knew what I had to do, I found some polythene I had used when painting (household painting) and laid it out on the pine table I use for crafts.The idea was that you made coloured marks on the cloth with the Sharpie pens, then drew up some of the nail polish remover with the pipette and dripped it onto the design starting at the centre and working outwards.

Here are the first two I did with before and after photographs.

Then I did another.

I didn’t take a before photograph for the next one.Only just noticed how it is lopsided and how the red and blue mixed to get purple. I was trying to make ones where the original lines were less obvious.

I won’t go through all of them but here are just two more.On Saturday I decided to try more and spaced them out a little more.

On Thursday after I had finished the cloth looked pretty crumpled.

But later it flattened out a bit.However on Saturday after having done some more I gave it an iron.Here you can see Thursday’s on the left and Saturdays on the right.

The one with the more obvious flower design on the bottom right, was an experiment to see what happened if you put the remover on first and then added the pen.

I don’t know if you noticed in the first photograph but we were also given a plain cotton shopping bag. The idea being that having practised, we could then add coloured designs to the bag. I am not sure if I am brave enough to do this.

We don’t need to provide anything for next week. I wonder what it is?

I have been very good and never peeked in advance.