More on Using Glue for Silkscreening T-Shirts

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"AMANDA CLAIRE: So I've got most of the outlining of my--just with the fine brush, a lot of the small detail is outlined. Like, for example, this is kind of a big area here, and I've done the outline with the small brush to just make sure I get a nice, crisp edge. The reason that's important is there's not a lot of room for mistakes with this method in the sense that, you know, what the Mod Podge glue does is it's sealing those little holes in the fabric so that ink or paint can't go through them. So what that means is if you make a mistake or you put glue where you don't want it to be, you know, then you've got to get it out somehow. And it's really not that easy because, I mean, what are you going to do? You're going to put water on it? And if you do that, you'll kind of mess up, you know, maybe something right next to it that you've already put glue down on. So you really kinda want to sort of take care, especially around the edges of the areas that are going to be printed to just make sure you do it kind of how you want it to look and you really take care around the edges. But once you do that, you can be a little bit more sloppy. I mean, you see here I'm just kinda slopping it on because I've already kind of taken care around my edges and I know where I want those holes to be sealed so. But, yeah, so what the glue is doing is it's sealing all those little holes and so, you know, therefore, you want to put not a super thick coat on, I mean, actually--I don't know if you can--you probably can see, but it a, it's a little thick here, so I'm going to kind of brush that out a little bit. You don't want it gloppy thick but at the same time you don't want it so thin that it's not going to be sealing the holes. So you just kind of do sort of a medium thickness coat. You really don't want to have to go over it the second time. So, anyway, that's where I am now. Like I've said, I've done, traced all my, kind of, edges of my fine detail with my fine brush. I'm starting to fill in some of these areas here that are kinda some of the smaller areas in between the details. And when I'm finished with that, I'm just going to move to the larger brush and just start filling in the rest of it."