The Queen crest

  
I´m a huge Queen fan so I decided to make a hoodie with the Queen crest on the back. The hoodie itself I made from black college fabric, which I got from my (now former!) school a year and half ago for free! This time I got inspired to paint the Queen crest by new textile paints I bought on Saturday the 11th of June (an opaque white, yellow and red). Why did they give me then inspiration then? They are the main colours on the coloured version of the Queen crest, and I was wearing a T-shirt with the image in question. I bought it from the Queen + Adam Lambert 2016 summer festival tour, Helsinki, on June the 3rd. I was there with a good friend of mine and we happened to get in the actual front!! I was totally excited about going to the gig in general as I thought it would never be possible for me to see Queen live, so I was officially the happiest person on Earht for getting so close to the stage!! Here´s a shot from the Helsinki gig.

 (Photo credit:Brian May2016, from:  http://brianmay.com/brian/brianssb/brianssb.html )

Absolutely an incredible show! Thanks for giving world all that wonderful music! QUEEN (still) ROCKS!!



  Back to the hoodie.. So I have made another hoodie with Queen crest on the back but it was painted with brown on black fabric so it isn´t too visible (as the brown was all I got at the moment, and of course I couldn´t go and buy some new paints..).

And, in my opinion, the Crest is very nice looking, too!

On top: The newest Queen crest hoodie
In the middle: My first fabric painting,
 the Finnish lion
On the bottom: The first hoodie with
the Queen crest, it´s little better visible than it
seems on the computer screen.

  I indeed DO NOT OWN screen printing supplies so I create my own "wannabe screen prints" with sticky-backed plastic combined with free-hand painting/-drawing. I first draw through the image on the plastic sheet and then stick on it´s place on the fabric. Then I cut out the areas to be painted with utility knife and tiny little scissors. After that I (try to) paint the colours accordingly and remove the plastic. Once it`s dry, I draw the possible black elements with a black textile marker and let it dry well again. When the image is fully dry I iron over it on full heat for 5 to 10 minutes. The ironing makes it waterproof and it lasts forever on the fabric. This poor mans method takes time and effort, but if you are patient and concentrated, your hard work WILL be rewarded.

  This was my third time making a "wannabe screen print" and actually was mostly painted free-hand, excluding the outlines. Took several hours and was scary, but I´m happy with how it turned out. Might have been better, but for me it´s good enough. After all, it was made by a human with not-the-best supplies, so I´m happy.

  ...Still missing a zipper, though, so I´ll have to wait a little more to wear it...

Cheers!

Hello!

Hello everybody! Welcome to my new blog "Crafts´n´Music"! I`ve been planning on starting a blog for about a year now and I finally got inspired enough to actually do it. This blog is quite much about everything I do-in other words: guitar playing and crafting. I´m a Finnish craft-mad, who always gets to accomplish the craziest ideas..(I´ll go through them in my oncoming posts) It´s very usual for me to just go to look at all the leftover material from my former crafts and start making something that normal people wouldn´t even try..Sometimes it´s a success, and the other times...well at least I don´t spend extra money.. ;) Or then I just get "the most wonderful idea of the decade" and try and make something with inappropriate, limited tools and small budget and see what happens. When you don´t have too much money to spend, you have to improvise!

  Then my other passion: Music... so I´ll be writing about that as well. I just started playing the electric guitar last fall and I have to say IT´S FREAKING AWESOME! Of course I- once again -had to learn playing the hardest way.. So I´m trying to learn it self-taught, using guitar tabs I found on the Internet. So far, so good! But I guess that if you play several hours a day and totally enjoy it, you can´t go wrong. I got so carried away with the guitar that I even applied into an upper secondary school with music-theatre emphasis. (It´s approximately 100km away from my home so I´ll have to move there and start taking care of everything myself..heheh..) There was an entrance examination in May the 11th. There I had to perform something related to music or theatre, so I decided to play "Stairway to heaven" by Led Zeppelin on the guitar and sing at the same time.. Probably didn´t screw up too badly ´cos the results came yesterday and I GOT IN!! To be honest, I was truly and happily surprised... Music is just magical, isn´t it?!

  I still have to say most likely all the posts will be a combination of crafts and music, as I very often like to blend them. I may also post tutorials (especially if requested) and reviews, we`ll see. Feel free to comment, ask questions and suggest a post topic. Hopefully you enjoy reading this blog! Thank you!

  Oh, and in the picture is my lovely Yorkie, Iitu. Thanks to my friend for taking the picture!