Pillowcase Printing- Image Maker Review

A while back I bought some Dylon Image Maker out of curiosity which allows you to transfer images from magazines or photos to fabric.  Below is what I did to print an image onto a plain pillowcase and also a review of Image Maker.

A few things to consider about Image Maker before you start:

• Any image you use will be reversed in the transfer so text will be mirrored
• You can only use magazines, photos, or laser printer print outs (not ink jet printers), or photocopies
• The image you use will be destroyed so you may want to photocopy photos if you want to keep them
• Whatever fabric you’re going to transfer onto needs to go in the wash first (and iron it!)
• You will need Image Maker (duh), an image, some fabric, paintbrush, tea towel or kitchen roll, rolling pin, sponge, cardboard

 

1. I got my awesome Pikachu picture and cut it out.  2. I painted the Image Maker on the right side of my image.  3. I place the image face down on the pillow case.  4.  I placed kitchen roll  over the image and rolled it for several minutes. 5. I left the image to dry out overnight.  6.  I socked the image and began gently rubbing it with a sponge.  7.  I continued rubbing until the desired image was brought to the fore.

This is essential the finished result for me, the next step is to apply another coat of image maker over the top to seal in the image but I never bothered with that.  As you can see you can see black marks under the images which are where I applied the image maker thicker.  I also made the mistake of placing a magazine inside the pillowcase instead of cardboard and the magazine got stuck to it and the image from that came off too!

I would say this was a mitigated failure for me.  It was a good experiment and I think I might get this to work better with more practice.  This was actually my second attempt, the first was with an inkjet print out and it totally didn’t work.  The magazine image worked much better but still a long way off.

My review of Image Maker is: great idea, affordable price*, clear instructions given, seems totally doable, will probably go wrong at some point and turn out crummy.

*£5-8