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Slater Mill in Pawtucket, RI is sponsoring their second annual knitting weekend on January 22-24, 2010. Vicki will be there representing PRO Chemical & Dye in the Mini-Marketplace on Saturday, January 23rd, from 10:00AM to 5:00PM.  Stop by and visit to see some of the latest kits and supplies available for dyeing your own yarns and fibers to knit and spin with. For those new to dyeing, Vicki will also be demonstrating how to paint skeins of yarn.

Just in case you have not visited our web site recently, we wanted to let you know that you will receive 10% off your online orders of $25 or more this month!!! It’s a great time to stock up on supplies for your studio. We also have a newsletter available that will inform you of the latest products and company news. If you have not signed up to receive our newsletter, you can go to this web page to register.

Happy Dyeing!
Your friends at PRO Chemical & Dye

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Continuing with our series of discharge fabrics, we decided to show you  a piece done on fabric that was dyed with PRO MX Black 608 using a low water immersion technique, which then had potato dextrin applied to the stretched piece of fabric. Once the dextrin was completely dry and crackled, we thickened bleach using Monagum and applied it with a spatula to the surface of the dextrin, allowing it to seep down into the crackle areas. We peaked under the fabric periodically to watch the black fabric discharge to a beautiful green, at which time we brought the piece to the garbage can and scraped the larger pieces of dextrin into the garbage. Once this was done, the fabric was given a really good rinse, removing the remaining potato dextrin. The last step was neutralizing the fabric in a bath containing AntiChlor. For more details on the processes used in this piece of fabric, please visit our web site for the following directions: Potato Dextrin Monagum Antichlor

“The Forest”

Detail of freeform quilting showing metallic thread

Your friends at PRO Chemical & Dye would like to wish you, our valued customers, a very happy holiday season!!! We will be closed December 24th, 25th and January 1st, so that our employees can enjoy the holidays with their families.  However you can always place an order on our website and orders will ship the following Monday. Also, please keep in mind that due to the colder winter months, UPS and FedEx can only ship liquids and paints from Monday through Wednesday, to assure that they do not freeze in transit.

The ladies of the Lab have been having fun again with discharge techniques. This time they used JoAnn’s black cotton classic and did several itajime pieces, discharged them in bleach, neutralized them with AntiChlor and then did direct application of the still-folded itajime pieces and then batched for 18 hours at 70F. We can’t wait to make something with these. The image below is a collage created in Picassa.

We wanted to share with you a discharge printed textile done by Nancy, in the lab. We love the graphic quality of her print. She used the Jacquard Discharge Paste and some Marcy Tilton silk screens for the patterns, on black cotton classic from JoAnn’s. This is a quick, fun, easy way to create one-of-a-kind cloth!

Now that Thanksgiving is over, everyone is in the spirit of the upcoming holidays.
Here is a great idea for you, using the Shiva Paintstiks and the Holiday Rubbing Plates.
Just set aside a couple of hours for yourself and you can create a wall pices very similar to this.

Stop by and say HI to Anne and Nancy this week. They are in Booths 1256-1258, in the Mixed Media section of the show. There are a lot of new products for sale, plus daily demonstrations. Quilt Festival opens Wednesday, from 5-10PM, then continues Thursday through Sunday.

Check out these gorgeous fabrics created by Carol Soderlund’s workgshop students, the week of September 22-26, 2009.