Go Gocco!

About a month ago I had the good fortune to read Amy's blog at just the right time. She had bought a few Goccos in Japan and was going to list them on Ebay. I very excitedly ran my cousin Jo to see if she was interested and we bought one. Yesterday we had our first go. I am by no stretch of anyone's imagination an artist, so came up with a few very simple designs. We spent a lot of time doodling and chatting and generally being intimidated by the small blue machine.

We finally chose our desgins, and loaded the machine up ready to go.

The moment of truth - setting of the flash to set the screen.

It worked!

Next step was to ink the screen and do some printing. We didn't have any fabric screens so just set the normal paper ones but loaded it with fabric ink .

The small one feel asleep in the car on the way home from Jo's so when I got home I whipped up a new journal cover. Makes me smile just to look at it.

We learnt a few things yesterday - simple designs are really effective, outlines seemed to work better than coloured in designs, the whole thing was an absolute blast and not intimidating at all.

I think the black faced sheep needs to be my next screen.