Saturday was a day of pure pleasure -- working with dyes, wax, and screens in my downstaiars studio. Here I am, applying dye to a piece I had waxed. Try to ignore the mess in the background - LOL.
Linda Colsh, Helene Davis and I tripped over one another in this small space but somehow managed to make some fabulous pieces of fabric. It was a real collaborative effort: here is Linda adding wax with my tjap to a piece of Helene's hand-dyed cotton.
Here's Helene ironing her fabric, which is pictured below before she ironed out the wax.
We all took turns using some of the same tjaps and dyes but it is amazing how differently our pieces turned out. Linda left for home yesterday and I forgot to take pictures of her results, but here is my fabric from above combined with a piece of scrap I had lying around, to which I had applied some paint. Linda added some wax and mopped up with random dyes and I put them together for this result:
One more thing. Here is the piece by Linda Colsh that is now hanging on my studio wall.
Aren't I lucky?
The view from the airplane window, somewhere between Newark and Columbus. Got up at 5:30 for this view.
Landed around noon and spent the rest of the day meeting & greeting.
Today was setup day for the vendors: Judy Robertson is here with her fabrics, St. Theresa's Textile Trove is here; Friends Fabric Art is here with tons of books and lots of gorgeous paints, and Helene is here with her fabulous hand-dyes. Heaven. There are a few more vendors, but I am too tired to remember offhand who they are. I spent time catching up with Helene - and giving the cookies to Bob, who will use them as energy bars so he can keep up with all the customers.
Truly a feast for the eyes - and this is only the tip of the iceberg. Below, shirts that Helene has dyed just like her fabric, only to wear. Yummy!
Below, a happy camper. Do you think he's smiling because the chocolate chip cookies I brought to him are so good?
Goodnight Bob. Goodnight everybody. Tomorrow, alarm goes off at 6:30 and it's a class day.
