After finishing today’s pieces, I truly get the title of Jan’s class — Depth of Field Shibori. This piece probably is the best example.

Here is a detail:

This piece was shibori wrapped and dyed and then underpainted with a gradation of dyes and then shibori wrapped and dyed in a dark dye. Oh, I love this.

Here is more of the work.

This piece was first shibori wrapped and then dyed in bright orange. Today, I rewrapped it and dyed it in violet – yowza!!

Here is the chopstick piece from yesterday. Today, I wrapped it with chopsticks again and dyed it in chartreuse.

The next piece was the one I laid on top of an underdyed fabric while it was still wet and then I smooshed it. Today, I did the rope trick with it. Love it.

Here is a detail.

I just had to show Sheila and her mammogram quilt. She used CD clamps for this. Someone said it looked like a mammogram for a dog – LOL.

Here is the very talented and lovely Constance Rose, working away, rinsing dyed pieces.

I have more luscious work to show, but it will have to wait for tomorrow. I have to post my window quilt on the 12 X 12 site. Be sure to take a look through our windows.

Over, under, twist and turn. Where do I start? This class is so fabulous. Jan’s work is incredible. She showed us a few pieces today and did a slide show.

The circle is the leftovers from a series she just made for the Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital. So gorgeous.

First thing this morning, I found out why I purchased a roll of rope from Home Depot. I only needed 4 feet!

Jan demonstrates wrapping around the rope.

Here is mine, ready for the dye bath.

This one of my shiboris from yesterday. Today I painted a dye gradation over it.

The next three pieces were in yesterday’s post. I folded and clamped again to get a more complex surface on each.

The next two pieces were experiments to see the difference between dye painting on dry fabric versus soda ash fabric.  I painted identical gradations. Then they were pole wrapped and dyed in the same dye bath. The top is the dry piece, which Jan prefers – me too. The second piece will be shibori discharged when I get home.

One very valuable thing I have learned in this class is the under and over painting of fabric before and after shibori dyeing. It adds depth and complexity to the surface. Here is my two fer. I have underpainted a gradation and put another piece of fabric on top and spritzed it to get a mottled surface. Yum. These will go on the poles tomorrow.

This was a teal shibori which I have overpainted in a gradation.

This is a pretty ugly peppermint looking red shibori on the organic cotton. I overpainted this, but don’t have a photo.

This is the rope shibori piece which creates a honeycomb effect.

And here is the stitched piece dyed in black.

This piece was wrapped around several chopsticks with rubberbands and dyed in walnut brown. Tomorrow, it is going into a chartreuse dye bath.

Here are a couple of photos of underpainting done by class members

And here is a view of the very nice, state of the art, dye studio.

So, I had quite a workout today. It is not easy shoving that fabric down a pvc pipe several times a day — especially when you add string to it.