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.

What a great week was had by all with Carol Soderlund in her True Colors workshop. After an incredible lesson on color theory and mixing colors by eye, among other dye techniques, students created an invaluable reference of value and hue gradations for future use. Then each student used a picture for inspiration and dyed 15 fat quarters to use in a project, once they got home. This slideshow will show the resulting fabrics from each student. What glorious color!!!

Transperse Violet TP08

Transperse Purple TP09

We added two purples to our line of Transperse Transfer Printing dyes.  Both of these can be used on their own or blended with any of the other Transperse Dyes to create a palette of transfer dye paints, for your work on polyester.

The workshop schedule for 2010 has been posted on our web site.  We’ve got a great line-up of visiting artists in all areas of surface design. Registration begins on October 1, 2009. Some of our workshops are in high demand, so early registration is recommended.

We also have three openings in Jane Dunnewold’s workshop, posted below, as well as 4 openings available in October’s Fundamentals of Dyeing workshop.

We have 3 openings available in Jane Dunnewold’s workshop on Water-Based Resists on October 7-11, 2009. This is going to be an incredible opportunity to explore several contemporary twists on the use of water-based resists. Participants work with water soluble soy wax, commercial water-soluble adhesives, and flour paste as means of blocking pattern temporarily so that coloration of the fabric can occur. Fiber reactive MX dyes are the colorant of choice. Stencils, silk-screens and hand painted application of the resists are the primary focus. Some experience with fiber reactive dyes is recommended.

Don’t miss out on this! You will have a blast!!!

Click here for more information and to register.

MagicStamp is a wonderful material that allows you to mold your own foam stamps from any natural or man-made textured surface. MagicStamp can be reheated and remolded again and again. The molded image is quite durable but will disappear as you reheat the foam. Click here for more information and to order any of the three packages available: sheets, blocks and assorted geometric shapes.

Here is a slide show of making your own stamps usiing Magic Stamp:

We have added 15 new gorgeous colors to our line of Sabraset/Lanaset dyes for wool, silk and other protein fibers. Check them out on this web page. All of these colors are in-house mixes, to supplement the color range of the Sabraset dyes. There are some beautiful combinations available now, that will add a rich color palette to your wool dyeing.

Here are the beautiful printed fabrics and papers created by students who studied with Kerr Grabowski at PRO Chemical & Dye last week.