The Final Dyeing Workshop of the Season!

The final dyeing workshop of the season was an energetic and delightful experience! Everyone brought their adventurous spirits and some truly creative fabric was made! Once again we were hot and a wee bit slimy from the New England weather but it did not dampen the enthusiasm! 

Standing: Dayle, Diane, Dwight, Me, Cathleen, Debra, Cathy & Sue
Kneeling: Alyson, Linda & Rita

Some beautiful examples of screening with thickened dye! 

Dwight, Diane and Alyson are deciding on their color palettes! 

Rita and Linda have some great pieces in the works.
Rita chose ferns and Linda went for the abstract! 

Dwight used some garden floral as a design here but his first piece was a "snowflake" design created from freezer paper... so cool! 

Roz was my lovely assistant today!
I could not have set up and taken down without her help. 

Another beautiful clothesline filled with fabric art work! 

Sue was going for the texture of the driveway combined with grass clippings - I love the creative process! 

Of course there is always an after-party! Can you guess Roz's favorite fabric color! 

We also did some Confetti and Ice Dyeing but I complexly forgot to take pictures! There were a ton of really vibrant and fabulous fabrics made... bad teacher forgetting to take pics! 

Fabric Painting Workshop - Another Great Group!

We had a wonderful time creating fabulous painted fabric on Saturday! The group was fearless; they learned the techniques and then proceeded to put their own creative spin on it = swoon! 

Such a beautiful clothesline! 

YES - we are hot - YES we are sweaty - YES we are happy! 

Maureen is selecting her palette! 

Rita and Bev are finishing up with the paint and ready to manipulate the fabric
for a fun effect!

Linda is placing ice cubes on her fabric to allow the sun to move the paint around! 

As always my lovely sister was our assistant - OXOX!

Dwight sees opportunities for texture everywhere! 

We have a lot of patterns being created using all kinds of surfaces to paint on!

Trisha prepares her work space for another fabulous piece! 

Polly, Linda and JoAnna are securing whiffle balls into their fabric.
We expect some great "bursts" of color from this technique! 

Kelly, Trisha, Dwight and Polly are painting their manipulated fabric!

Ahhh... an air conditioned lunch break! 

Bev, JoAnna, (Donna), Rita and Debra are back at work painting their pleats! 

Everyone created awesome sun printed fabric using foliage from the gardens but Dwight brought clamps - so cool! 

Given the warm sunshine all the fabric dried in time to be transported home!
It was a wonderful creative and productive day!!!

Summer Studio Workshops~ Registration is Open!

     Have Fun * Get Messy * Take Home Fabulous Fabric!

I will be hosting a fabric PAINTING workshop August 27th and a fabric DYEING workshop September 10th in my Shelton, CT studio. I'll share my experience from over a decade of experimenting and fine tuning my approach to surface design.

Registration is open - only 10 students per class - so let me know quickly if you'd like to come play! Click on the workshop title to register.

Fabric PAINTING Workshop

August 27th / 10:00 - 2:00

Learn a number of unique ways to paint the surface of your fabric. We’ll use the sun to print images, we'll create a textured appearance on fabric and you can try my new painting with ice cubes technique... and more! 

Each student will create and take home 4 yards of fabric.

Fabric DYEING Workshop

September  10th / 10:00 - 2:00

Learn the secrets of three different surface design techniques; ice dyeing, confetti dyeing and free-motion dyeing. Each method yields very diverse results – all fun and distinctive! We'll be using ice cubes, shakers, spray bottles, silk screens... and more! 

Each student will create and take home 4 ½ yards of fabric.