Saturday 27 April 2019

Screen Printing Baby Blankets

I have just been in South Africa for a couple of weeks visitting family and friends and spending a bit of quality time with my Mom. Whenever I go there, she and I like to do something creative and 'textily' together.

In the spirit of recycling, we bought a couple of cotton sheets from the wonderful emporium which is the Hospice Shop and had some fun screen printing them with these colourful designs.





My mom and her companion have been on a personal mission to make baby blankets for clinics in Jo'burg.  Apparently it's not uncommon for women to take babies home from hospital wrapped in newspaper or plastic.  So, while I was there, we decided to have another print session and we printed a pile of baby themed designs.  We sewed these onto fleece backings to make them into cosy little blankets. 





I can't honestly think of a nicer way to spend time together!