Great Results

As you can see it was a very productive class. We were all excited about the wonderful results our fellow class members were getting as we did "Twist and Shout" with silk chiffon and acid dyes.
Starting next week we will reprise the "Photos for Quilts" class.
June 1 is also "Meet the Teachers" at Ginger's Quilt Shop. I will be offering Free Motion Machine Doodling and Art Quilt Adventures. Come and see what is in store and join the fun.

Art Quilt

I finished the art quilt about my trip to Colorado as I drove along Interstate 70 across Utah. It was a great trip and this quilt is about the way the shapes and colors of the mountains changed as I traveled. I loved the bare trees across the fields and along the rivers. This quilt will remind me of the experience each time I look at it.

INew Computer

I got a new computer and am having a terrible time figuring out how to make things work.
I hope this is working. Who knows?
We will be discharging color on Wednesday. I am also working on some plans for changes to the format of class.
I'll let you know soon what I have in mind.

Back to class

Time to get back to class. We will be continuing with Silk Dyes.
I am adding two more techniques you can try. Splish and Splash and Layered Silk Painting.
I am also bringing the setting solution for the "Green Label" dye so if you did some of that last week
we will be able to set it on Wednesday.
Bring your silk and show us what you did last week and paint something else this week.
I know it has been crazy this session.

I'm Back!

I have returned home. Actually last Thursday, but I have been sick (a bad cold). I'm looking forward to seeing you all again Wednesday. We will start dying silk. I will bring the dye and you bring the silk. Choose the method you want to use.
Splish and Splash, Twist and Shout, Layered painting, Microwave, the possibilities are endless.
I had a great time and will tell you all about the adventures.
See you.

Brief "Hello"

I have returned from a wonderful Art Quilt Retreat in Gateway Canyons, Colorado. It was an amazingly beautiful area. The photos are of the pallasaide and my quilted painting of it. I'm all inspired and excited about further exploration of the technique.

Coming home I learned that I had won Best Pictorial for my quilt "Tidepools". That was exciting!

I leave again Friday for three weeks of fun and teaching, so I'll come back ready to go to work.
On April 27 we start silk dyeing so choose your method of how you want to put colored dye onto silk.
It will be lots of fun.

Bye for now

I will be gone baby sitting and attending an ART QUILT Seminar in Colorado so I will not be here at my computer banging out messages on my blog. (They're not that great anyway)

One half a day of cotton dyeing on Wednesday so bring your salt water soaked cotton, rayon or linen and either microwave dye or low water immersion dye them. Then be planning on what wonderful things you will be using all your yummy hand dyed fabric for.

I will hopefully come back with lots of new ideas for us to explore.

Bye!