My print making journey

I studied textile design at art college, with screen printing as my major. After college I painted my textile designs to sell, and then moved into illustration, mostly for children's books, gift-wrap, packaging and stationery. My work has always reflected that initial training, in the way I think about design.
I have in the last few years returned to print making in a different way. Not exclusively for textiles, although I do design and sell my t-shirts and tea towels and fabric items. Now I print on paper and am really enjoying the process. 
I began with some short courses at East Side Print in Brighton, a great open access studio. Over the past few years I have been experimenting with different aspects of printing, challenging myself. Every now and then something pops up that reminds me of my initial  print training, a memory of how I used to work. At the time everything was analogue, I hand drew and painted my print separations. I liked it that way, working out how to create textures by hand that would be the work of seconds with Photoshop. 
​I am using Photoshop now sometimes to create my print separations but I am being drawn back to working by hand. I am drawing on tracing paper with crayons and ink.

I don't aim to draw something and then reproduce it - I could just do a digital print for that (which I sometimes do) I want to have a bit of fun with the print making process, 
I am trying  to end up with something different than I intended... aka surprising myself. 
For me this means
not sticking rigidly to the original thought,
allowing for happy accidents,
and learning from my mistakes
trying out different colourways (this is a textile design thing I think, I always think of alternatives)
overprinting,
collecting different papers to try out
not throwing anything away- yesterday's mistake is tomorrow's inspiration.
Messing about 'just to see...'
Thanks to everyone who has helped me on my print journey so far x