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Carol Soderlund’s Dyeing Workshop, 2
So…what were my favorite things about the class:
Obviously, the class itself, ALL of it, and the dyeing and the color!
Meeting Fay, from Manjimup, Australia! We had met via the Dyers’ List (an online forum that sticks VERY closely to the subject matter, not any real chat there), when I asked if anyone else from the list was attending the class. Here we are at the end of the class.
Next time, I’ll have to visit her, and from the looks of the region, boy do I ever want to go there! Fay told me (if I remembered correctly) that Manjimup comes from the Aboriginal, meaning place of water. She was so impressed about our northeastern US as being so full of water: streams, rivers, ponds, lakes, seacoast. I did tell her that out west it is arid, more like most of Australia, but her astonishment at all the water was interesting…it shows what we take for granted here! To see pics of her corner of the Earth, click here and here.
Meeting Vicki Jensen (here’s her blog), who organizes all the classes at Pro Chem (and I suspect she does a lot more, too, for the day job), who is also an amazing artist in her own right. She was working on some felted pieces for which she had dyed the wool, done the felting, dyed the linen on which it was to be mounted and more…I was having severe lust! It also makes me realize that in time, when I actually have some time to think (and at the tail end of summer, it has been *months* since I’ve been able to do that with two haywire boys underfoot), I’d love to explore other fibers and textures to include in my art. That, and learn to use potato dextrin..check Vicki’s blog and scroll down a bit….yum!
Seeing 266 Third Street, Fall River, Mass. I had been there once before to visit my Aunt Mary M. in 1971—which was 72 years AFTER my dad was born in that house 107 years ago, on January 22, 1899
(no, that’s not a typo…he was that old! almost 59 when I was born). I didn’t recognize the house, but finally spied this foundation, and new it had to be the same house, split into two flats as before (two mailboxes, two satellite dishes!)
Seeing the work of the other women in the class. Sandra works with yarns and weavers, so instead of yardgoods, she dyed a t-shirt, which I would love to duplicate:
Sharon is an accountant in her day job, and equally precise (a trait I sometimes envy but seldom achieve–her folding was meticulous!) in her tie-dyeing “other” business:
Suzie K’s cloth…she makes art cloth, and am sure she will do more and more to this piece, 
which I also love just as is. And in the “it’s a small world” vein: she and her hubby were assigned to the US Embassy in La Paz, Bolivia, and left there at most two months before Paul and I arrived there in 1987! Who knows…maybe it was her Keepsake Quilting catalog I found in the Community office that opened the doors to the world of quilting for me!
I’m not sure who made this piece…Judi? It is FABULOUS! This came out of the dryer as we were finishing up day 5 and I’m so glad I got a picture!
I’ll do one more post in a couple of days, about my pieces (none of which are as “eye candy” as these pieces, but what the heck!)…. have a good weekend everyone!