More class pictures

I just received photos from one of the students who took the class on Saturday.

This is Sylvia's "Happy Accident", where she chose a resist method and used up her leftover dyes from the previous exercises.

This picture shows Yewah's results from all 4 exercises: Top is the solid color, Second row left is the 2-color crossover, middle is the 3-layer parfait, and right is the "Happy Accidents".

We asked the participants to complete a post-class survey, and so far the results are very positive, and I'm pretty sure we will be doing this class again, along with some others we are thinking of! Considering I have never thought of teaching as something I would be interested in doing, I did enjoy watching the students get their first exposure to dyeing, and I am glad to have finally given this a try!

Stay tuned for more pix as they come in...

Dyeing class

Today was the Dyeing class that I taught with my friend Wendy. We had 11 students, and we taught them the basics of dyeing with procion mx dyes on cotton fabric. The first exercise was simply to mix dye in one of the 3 primary colors and dye a 1/2 yard piece of fabric a solid color.

Here are the dyed, bagged fabrics batching in the sun.

Next was the parfait dyeing, where we created a series of 3 pieces of fabric in dark, medium and light values of one color.

Wendy is showing off two 3-color parfait dyes she did last summer.
Next, we did a 2-color crossover with 5 1/2-yard pieces of fabric.

Foreground is one of the student's crossover fabrics, going from yellow to fuchsia.
Finally, I got a shot of the class holding up their fabrics from the first exercise:

Hopefully, I will get pix from the students that I can post to show you how their other exercises turned out.
The last exercise was called 'happy accidents' and I gave them samples of several tied, folded or scrunched patterns to try so they could use up their leftover dyes... can't wait to see how they turned out! Stay tuned...

Gradation dyeing class

Today, my friend Wendy and I taught a friend, Kris, a basic gradation dyeing class. Kris won't be able to attend our class scheduled for June 26, so we decided to make her our 'guinnea pig' to test our class lesson plan. We started out about 9am or so, went through 4 exercises, and had everything done, washed and dried by about 1:30... not bad! Kris dyed 5 yards of fabric. First 1/2 yard was a solid fuchsia, the next 3 1/2 yard pieces were done in a 3 layer parfait using cerulean blue; next came a 5 piece crossover gradation from yellow to blue with greens in the middle. Last exercise was to use up leftover dyes, and we ended up doing a double accordion fold which we banded, then Kris applied first the yellow, then overdyed with some blue. She was thrilled with how the fabrics looked, and went home a happy dyer!
I got these shots of them while Kris was pasting up one of the dyes:

Wendy is on the left, Kris is on the right. We had beautiful weather all day except for occasional gusts of wind, but enjoyed being outside for a change! Silly me... I totally forgot to get pictures of the dyed fabric! I'll do better next month when we have the larger class, promise!