Come Try Weaving for a Day

The Michigan Weavers Guild offers the opportunity to try your hand at weaving.  They will show you how easy it is to do with two easily transportable looms.

Saturday, September 15, 2012

10 AM to 2 PM

Peace Lutheran Church

17029 West 13 Mile Road

Southfield, MI

Questions?  Contact MWG President, Andrea Anderson at 248-848-9880

www.michiganweaversguild.org

Opportunities - Not for Members Only!

Dye Classes with Susie Krage

Susie Krage of Surface Design Association - Michigan will be offering several fabric dyeing classes this fall.  All clases are held at her Detroit studio in Indian Village.  If interested, contact Susie at skrage2 "at" att.net.*

Indigo Magic: 1 day

Using only indigo, produce fabrics that range from pale to rich deep blue. We will do some

fabric manipulation to achieve variations in color as well as pattern.

Experience level: All, including beginners.

Limit: 10

Cost: $95 includes all dye and chemicals

Offered:   October 25, 9:30-4:30

Beginning Dyeing: 1 day

Learn the basics of low water immersion dyeing (LWI) using fiber reactive dyes. Both

batching and microwave dyeing will be used. Besides basics, a color gradation and some

manipulation will be included.

Experience level: Beginners

Limit: 8

Cost: $95, includes all dyes and chemicals

Offered: September 13, and again October 4, 9:30-4:30

Dyeing II: 1 day

Working with fiber reactive dye, learn to make  a 2 color gradation, parfait with many colors,

fabric manipulation and over dyeing.

Experience level: Beginning dyeing or equivalent experience

Limit: 8

Cost: $95, includes all dyes and chemicals

Offered September 20, and again October 11, 9:30-4:30

Dyeing III: Working with Thickened Dye,  1 day

Using a variety of tools, learn to create improvisational pattern on fabric. Techniques

include but are not limited to mono-printing several ways, direct painting, squirting, 

drawing, stamping and mark making on fabric.

Level: all skill levels with basic dyeing  experience

Limit: 8

Cost: $95, includes all dyes and chemicals

Offered: September 27, and again,  November 18, 9:30-4:30

*You may be asking, why the "at" instead of the @ sign?  Just trying to make it harder for scammers to pick up Susie's email.  

Another SDA Michigan Workshop!

The Michigan Chapter of the Surface Design Association (SDA) has invited us to a workshop.  The original sign up date was August 31, but spaces are still available.  So if interested, contact Susie Krage - skrage2 "at" att.net - right away!  



Arashi Shibori Workshop with MX Dyes

Date:             Saturday, September 22, 2012

Time:             10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Location:       Susie Krage’s Studio – 1731 Seminole St, Detroit, 48214

Class Fee:      $50

Materials:     $10 materials fee (due to instructor at class to cover cost of handout, and use of dyes and auxiliaries)

Instructor:    Mary Valerie Richter

Pole Wrap or Arashi Shibori is a Japanese fabric dyeing technique that creates a pattern that resembles driving rain; the word Arashi means “storm” in Japanese. The patterning can appear architectural or organic depending on how the fabric is manipulated around the pole.  Beautiful colors and textural surprises are revealed as the poles are unwrapped.

This hands-on workshop will cover many pole-wrapping techniques.  We will use small cotton pieces of cloth (think fat quarters), and fiber reactive dyes in immersion baths.  Please note: This is not an opportunity to make personal yardage.  Supply list will be sent upon enrollment.

To sign up:  Contact Susie, who will provide payment instructions.

Jim Hay Workshops

By Jim Hay

The Dennos Museum Center is presenting two workshops with artist Jim Hay this September.
For The Love of Cloth Quilters Workshop

Dates: Saturday, September 24, 2011, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

and Sunday, September 25, 2011, 1:00 – 5:00 pm
Cost: $75 for Museum members, $90 for non-members
To Register: Call Diana Bolander at (231) 995-1029, payment due upon registration. This workshop is open to beginners, intermediate and advanced artists.
Forget patterns, forget rules. Get your creative juices flowing.
"Give me your tired...yearning to breathe free" Statue of Liberty
This workshop will open doors to YOUR personal creativity. Each person's artwork will be an individual expression; your artistic vision, your interpretation of a subject, your use of materials. Making art is a path to awareness, a finding out who we are as individuals connected to all.

The Luck of the Sew Quilters Workshop

Dates: Monday, September 26, 2011, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm and Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 1:00 – 5:00 pm
Cost: $75 for Museum members, $90 for non-members
To Register: Call Diana Bolander at (231) 995-1029, payment due upon registration
Open to intermediate and advanced artists – it is recommended that you take the For the Love of the Cloth workshop with Jim Hay before this fun and challenging workshop, but not required.
A Game of Chance – Expect the Unexpected – Numbers being Actions
The Luck of the Sew is a play on words from “the luck of the draw” referring to card games.” Numbers beings actions refers” to 1234567, people, monkeys, dogs, etc. and actions are walking, running, driving, etc.

A little about Jim Hay...

"I am an artist first, a maker of quilts second. Cloth can be folded, stored and shipped. This is an advantage over other sculptural materials as well as large stretched canvas paintings. I taught myself how to use a sewing machine and have never attended a quilt class or workshop. The first time I went to a quilt festival was to accept a prize and I have been going to accept prizes ever since. These are not "Your Grandma's Quilts"; no maps, no patterns, no sketches. They are journeys of improvisation, full of energy, surprise and personal discovery. The sewing machine foot pedal is my gas pedal as I race around."

Diana Bolander
Curator of Education and Interpretation
Dennos Museum Center
Northwestern Michigan College
dbolander@nmc.edu
(231) 995-1029
www.dennosmuseum.org