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Learning About Indigo
Learning about INDIGO with Elin Noble was a delight at Honeychurch Antiques/ Tyee Arts and Outdoor Education Center. She gave us some background on the dye and we were shown pieces from around the globe… indigo and surface decoration takes many forms. Our focus was the dye method and creating patterns with knots, thread, blocks…
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Whatcha going to make?
Now the adventure of making something with the fabrics I printed in my workshop excursion. I got right on it! My initial thoughts were that I would make a tote bag with the Seaside sketches print and a lightweight raincoat from the Jardin print. Here is what actually happened in my sewing salon… Now to…
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Engineered. Sublimation. Repeat.
Those are three words you will know more about in three minutes as you read through this post.As a bit of context, in January I set my artistic learning goal for the year as ‘surface design’ and in February discovered Susan Lazear at a SewExpo near Seattle. While in a class I learned she was…
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Lyon Silk
We spent a few days in workshops and learning more about the textile history of Lyon. The two rivers, the Rhône and the Saône, divide the city into an old medieval section where the textile trades started and the hills where in late 18th and early 19th century the weavers moved and where today some…
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