Photo To Fabric Transferring

Just a small blog on the success of photo to fabric transferring that I've recently discovered. Actually the process is quite simple although there are various ways of doing it. The articles I read suggested buying a gel medium however I spent too long searching for this stuff in HobbyCraft and in the end decided to buy Gloss Medium by Winsor and Newton. Gloss Medium is used for acrylics to increase depth of colour. It also has a binder and adhesive properties. I hoped that this would work seeing as it cost £7.99. Luckily I was very happy with the results which are shown in the photograph below.
So how did I do it? Firstly I printed out my chosen picture after flipping the pic back to front. I then covered the pic in the gloss medium and pressed it onto a piece of fabric. I then took a heavy book. The one I chose happened to have a plastic cover and this is where I made a mistake which worked out very well. As according to the instructions I read it is advised to leave the fabric and gel medium covered pic overnight until they are firmly glued together and without leaving anything (like my book) on top of them. After drying scrape away the paper (which is tedious) revealing the image on the cloth. However my impatience got the better of me and after about an hour and half I lifted the book to see how my experiment was doing but the paper got stuck to the laminated book and came away from the fabric. The image though was fine. Note: give the book cover a good clean before the medium has a chance to dry.