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Screen-printing T-shirts doesn't have to be difficult. Photograph: Lee May Foster

by Lee May Foster

"I started screen printing about five years ago, when I first started making my Bonbi Forest hand-printed T-shirts and accessories. I began by stenciling my designs which, while lovely, was rather time-consuming. There had to be a better way! I decided to have a go at screen printing and, with a bit of trial and error, I taught myself at home.

Five years and thousands of tees later, I now have a fancy heat setting machine and use photo emulsion stencil-making methods, but I still use quite a rustic set-up for my printing. For this tutorial, I wanted to show how screen-printing short runs of a simple design on T-shirts can be done very easily at home with just a screen, a squeegee, some ink, a piece of paper and a craft knife. It's how I started, and if you like it you have the basics to start experimenting with more technical ways of making screen stencils."

For instructions go to  -  http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/may/11/how-to-screen-print-tshirts-at-home