One thing I haven’t mentioned is how well and happy I felt during this workshop. I have been working hard and stuck at home, chained to my computer with too little time to be in the studio. This workshop was such a treat for me.

These are the remaining pieces. Remember the ugly candy striped organic cotton? I under painted, over the red and then shibori wrapped it and put it in a bath of dye mixture from left over painting. We didn’t know how it would read. It was green. The chevron design is created by folding the fabric and twisting it on the pole. The organic cotton muslin is very dense so you cannot get the finer shibori lines.

Here is the back side, if you want more subtle.

Here is a detail:

Here is another beautiful shibori piece that was underpainted with a gradation.

This piece was first folded and clamped with jar lids and dyed. Then it was folded in larger folds and clamped with CDs.

I had four sort of square pieces of fabric. I layered them and folded them and clamped them with blocks of wood that Mr C had cut for me. They were dyed in one of the blacks. These will definitely get more work done to them and perhaps appear in a quilt together.

These last few pieces (above and below) were quickly folded and tied or clamped pieces that would not take up a lot of space. With 16 students, you could not always get a pipe in the dye bucket. In fact, I brought an underpainted piece on pvc home with me. I hope to mix up some dye tomorrow and finish it. This piece was folded with rubber bands around it and dyed in the violet.

Here is a detail – yum.

I have spent the rainy day at the computer, again. I had a pile of registrations to handle. I think I am caught up for a few days.