I left home at about 7am heading north to La Conner for the Exquisite Bead Book Workshop with Gail Harker.
I arrived a little early even though I stopped several times including at Starbucks for breakfast and coffee.
The workshop was in the Civic Garden Center, which is right across the street from the Quilt Museum.
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The Pacific NW Quilt and Fiber Arts Museum |
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The LaConner Civic Garden Club |
The first day we dyed the fabrics we prepared and brought, wool and silk organza. Each reacted differently to the dyes. The wool took a lot of dye while the organza needed very little, but it didn't spread very well for either. So, we massaged it to get the dyes to move in interesting ways.
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Dyes prepared. |
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Gail explaining to us how we'll do it. |
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And we dyed some perle cotton thread that we'll use on binding our books. |
Here are some of the others fabrics - we set them out on plastic to leave them overnight. |
And my fabrics. |
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