adding own design onto duvet cover - help?!

[kittyb]

DS has drawn some great monsters and I rashly promised him I'd turn them into a duvet cover. So I've got a plain white cotton duvet cover...now what? I could copy them on free hand but to make it look a bit more professional, I'd quite like a repeating pattern of 4 or 5 of them. So I was thinking about making a stencil so each repeated monster looked the same. So here are my questions ... what would I use as a stencil? Would I need a special knife? How do I keep the stencil still? Do I buy special paint or special pens? Am I mad to even begin this??

You need an A4 sheet of thickish acetate to print or draw your design on.
Either hand draw on the acetate or scan the original drawing and print it onto the acetate.

Cut the design out of the acetate and use either a mounting spray I don't think it will do the fabric any harm but check before buying or use low tack tape.
Check in craft shops for fabric paints pens etc

Just thought you cut your stencil out of realy thick card but you'd have to be carful it doesn't go soggy.

The easiest thing I've found for white cotton was Crayola fabric transfer crayons - they're wax crayons, and you just draw the picture (in reverse if neccesary) onto white paper, then iron the wax onto the fabric.
Appreciate this doesn't help the many-identical-monsters aspect, but is very easy for smallish designs.

Alternatively, Tonertex make a range of special transfer papers that you photocopy the image onto, and then iron to fix the toner from the photocopier onto the fabric - requires no artistic input from you at all!

Could you scan his design into the computer then print onto transfer paper (£5 for 7 sheets in Tesco is the cheapest I've seen it) Then you just iron it onto the fabric. When you go to print there is an option to select print in reverse for t-shirt printing. It's dead easy and you know that it will be all identical monsters that he has done all by himself. Clever son and Clever Mummy to think of such a fab idea!

thank you all so much - I had no idea these products even existed!! I really like the idea of scanning the images in to the computer then printing. I will let you know how I get on!

Thanks so much all of you again