Plant Dyes for Fiber Arts

The Museum of Contemporary Craft has some great images from the past weekend’s workshop with Mackenzie on their flickr site.  Mackenzie and the class were kind enough to leave a fantastic bag of samples of their dyed fabric. It is amazing what colors they created using eco-friendly, sustainable and safe materials. Patrick spent the week prior collecting pots, minerals and burners; so a big thanks goes his way.

Update!  Also check out the wonderful pictures from student “well crafted’s” flickr page.

This and That….

Check out the Portland Modern Quilt Guild and PNCA Continuing Education Quilt show in gallery 214 at PNCA. We had a great time at the opening and hope that you have a chance to check it out! The show comes down Thursday the 21st (right before the next PMQG meeting).

CE Instructor, Craft Writer and PMQG member Susan Beal has two new books out!  Modern Log Cabin Quilting is an excellent look at the timeless technique that Susan will also be teaching at PNCA this Summer. World of Geekcraft is a collection of 25 kooky projects just published by Chronicle Books.

Seriously, this class will be great. Patrick is are already hunting for local plants for this fabric dying workshop (among other materials).

 

Lizzy at PNCA

We had a tremendous weekend with Lizzy House!  It was great to see our friend Amy Hodge and there was a great crowd, doing fantastic work.  We started out with a quick breakfast of Voodoo Donuts followed by studying how pattern design works and brainstorming. Days two and three were spent in the print lab hand printing, using lino blocks and screens. You can check out pics from the class.