Coloring, Candles and Cocktails
A new workshop, planning for May and Craftcation
I am just back from Craftcation in Ventura where I was teaching, selling and participating. I taught a new workshop, “Totes to Baskets: Transform Too Many Totes into Beautiful Baskets”. I think it’s safe to say that we all have too many totes. I swear they multiply in my closet, and thrift stores are full of them. What if you could take a tote and make it into a basket with handles. What would you use it for? To hold all your other totes? Bread rolls at the dining table? Face towels or toiletries in the bathroom? Picnic supplies for the park? Here are my original samples plus the ones made by attendees.
And yes, of course I am going to teach this virtually for each of you. Click the image below for details.
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I was also selling at Craftcation - candles, lip balm and various sewing amusements.
The few that were unsold are now in my online store and are limited edition! I don’t plan to make more after this.
As for participating - I am now in love with Ice Dyeing, as well as the indigo and natural dyeing I was doing before and teach. Here are my items just after sprinkling. Note socks in the colander (what else does one use a colander for?) and in the corner surrounded by a tin foil moat.
Now note socks rinsed and laundered on my apartment’s old school laminate flooring.
It really is an amazing process where the dye has time to separate into its constituent particles and so you get all these amazing blends and bleeds of color. I am going to do some further experiments then add it to my repetoire of workshops I teach.
I ventured down to Ventura with a Partner for the first time and so there was a little celebrating after I’d taught my third and final class.
This is a sweet potato cocktail from a bar called Strange Beast, where you can find a neon axolotl on the wall. My Partner had never heard of the axolotl, which is an aquatic salamander from Mexico and critically endangered. I don’t know why I know these things. The cocktail was delicious though.
Finally, plans progress for when Global Quilt Connection takes H&H Trade Show by storm. Anyone involved with a Guild who is going to F&F (the consumer show open to the public in Chicago the week before) should look out for a GQC meet-up run by my colleague Susan Couch. I did a little try out our H&H booth activity…
I now have 2 yards of this fun fabric which I’ll be making into a quilt and inviting people to color in during the event. If you are enamored you can find this design and other coloring in patterns on Spoonflower’s site.
That’s it for this time. Let me know if you enjoyed the newsletter in the comments below.
Bea
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