Vera was unavailable for our annual summer dye workshop, so we had it at Tracy's home. Meredith led our hardy group, but the temps stayed below 3 digits, with a nice breeze. Not many photos were taken since we were all intense with concentration. This is one of Meredith's ice dyes.
Meredith's husband was sent into town to get several bags of ice, so that was one of the techniques we used, sprinkling dry powder dye onto the ice, over a basket or wire shelf with scrunched up fabric.
Several of us tried a "Shibori" technique of wrapping fabric around this giant rope or PVC pipe. Meredith got the rope as a remnant at a marine supply store at the coast. Crystal did her shibori on the PVC pipe and got this beautifully patterned silk scarf.
Cheryl's ice dyed t-shirt as it came out of the dye bucket. We left the ice to melt as we had lunch, and at the end of the day we put the fabric into plastic bags to batch overnight. Then rinse, wash and dry the next day, at home.
Cheryl's shibori dyed silk scarf, what color, WOW!
The full view of Meredith's silk fabric, that was ice dyed. Peggy and Amy spent time doing "Parfait" dyeing, adding three layers of fabric in one tub with a different color dye added on top of each layer. We all had lots of fun, good friends, good lunch and good learning experience.
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