We gathered at the home of Betsy for Show and Tell, and an experience with ice-dying. We have pictures only of tubs of fabrics covered with ice, and sprinkled with dye – since the tubs had to be taken home to cure for 24 hours before rinsing, washing and drying to reveal our creations. Catch our results on subsequent posts!  First, Show and Tell:

Patt:

white-on-white, unfinished samples of saori weaving

felted

scarf

held

vertically

reverse of scarf, finished with lavender edge

Gloria and guests

Betsy

Displayed several articles of interest obtained on travels. The item pictured is an animal horn decoredated with tiny glass beads.

Kaaren

Showed us one of six large cotton napkins begun recently with wax resist and elements from nature. She added drawing with pointed permanent markers.

Elizabeth

Constructed from a recent two-meeting project in which we (step 1) dyed nine different fibers with personally chosen colors, and (step 2) displayed them on felt of our choice, thus creating in most cases scarves. The photo shows a simple sampler, embellished with found and created objects, resulting in a wall hanging.

and of course – some tubs:

In this, a silk scarf has been placed on TOP of the ice-and-dye

layers, in order to see whether some or all colors would seep upward, as well as trickling downward with the melting ice.

This program plan was for each attendee to bring several samples of weaving “around the house”, anything from a mass-produced dish cloth to souvenir craft weaving from another country. We divided into two manageable groups, passed them around, and shared our individual understandings. The results were interesting, surprising and sometimes mysterious to the max, so for fun we are posting some photos from that evening:

BARBARA S.

GUDRUN

ANGE

LINDA H.

GLORIA

ULLA

BARBARA

GINGER

MARILYN                                                   GUDRUN

ELIZABETH                                               DONNA

Paula, open market bag made from castoff Levi’s

Paula, Handbag made from castoff Levi’s

Ruth, examples of sprang

Marilyn, botanical dye work

Tien Chiu

Gudrun Polak

Melanie

Ann

Barbara Shapiro

From time to time we get to see new creations by Barbara Shapiro, so here is a page dedicated to her. Be assured, this is a work – and probably also a title – in progress.

Shared Aug. 18, 2016, from June workshops attended:

Many people were pleased with the mystery gift they chose.

While others played “Steal Your Favorite Gift” this year! You should have been there!

First, somebody has to choose a gift.

Then, OPEN it!

And finally, face the commentary as the crowd cheers wildly!

During this program, we were invited to Show-and-Tell our own adventures in Overshot. From these, plus a couple of her own, Barbie launched into her teaching mod for the remainder of the program.