Gallery
As we have new class photos, fun new show and tell ourselves, or special projects our customers bring in to share, we'll post them here!
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Rios Afghan
Sept 3rd
Eileen, who summers here in Vt, always has a fun and colorful project going when she arrives each spring from CA. This last year it was this Rios Blanket. She had previously knit this from a kit she purchased online from some store in the midwest, and had started a second one in Rios before heading east. So throughout the summer she purchased various colors of Rios to complete her lively and beautiful throw.
Now she's onto the Chevron Wrap in Ito! Clearly color resonates for Eileen as it does for me! Thanks for sharing your journey, Eileen!
Silk Paper Origami Credit Card Holder
Aug 21st
I was so disappointed that the Silk Paper making class didn't garner enough interest to run earlier this month. I love having pieces of silk paper around to stitch on, bind note books with, and now.....fold into hearty and handy credit card holders!
But they are also great for notecards, wedding invitations, wall art and , I've even had some interior designers use the process to make lampshades for their clients!
Anyway, my friends and I started off the day binding notebooks, making folders and folding some credit card holders to help me use up some lovely papers I had. And this morphed into me switching over to using some sheets of handmade, 100% tussah silk paper (with reeled silk for embellishment) papers that I had laying around.
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Botanical Printing - Show & Tell
Aug 14th
Here are a few of the prints from the 3 day workshop here over the weekend. Each participant printed 6 small samples to learn about the different mordants and tannins. Then they printed 3 larger samples striving for more aesthetic layout and to hone their wrapping technique. And finally they printed one large piece using natural dyes to add additional color to the background...and while that steamed they had a chance to over dye a couple pieces from the first days in indigo or another natural dye. So there were 30 prints altogether from the class so I obviously couldn't share them all here, but at least this gives you an idea of what participants did while learning this technique.
