Place: The Hermitage at Daylesford [ about a 40 minute drive away on sunny country roads ]
The cast: the gorgeous Zoe from Purl's Palace which is my favourite YS [ can't be a LYS cos it's not really local ], and nine adventurous ladies some of whom I'd met previously. One of these was Pat who'd driven the 3+ hours from Apollo Bay last night. Oh, and moi of course.
The occasion: my first workshop for Purl's Palace... Shibori Dyeing on Silk
The specs: Gaywool Dyes on medium Habutae, 8 minutes in the microwave.
Here are some of the girls stitching serenely in the sunlit courtyard
The result: judge for yourself :]
Pole wrapping
and a happy face
and a happy face
Pleating, folding and clamping
Stitching and tieing and the latest in fashionable headgear
Just look at how saturated those colours are! I luuurrve these Gaywool dyes. 
It was a bit rushed towrds the end mainly because of the time getting them all through the 2 microwaves and I really didn't get to recap so maybe a slightly less leisurely lunch next time but otherwise nothing I'd change. Doing the much more labour intensive stitched and tied ones first was definitely the way to go.
2 comments:
Don't know which is warming me up more: the sight of the sun on this snowy day we've got going on over here or all those rich colors! I suspect it may be a combination of the two. In any case, it was a welcome sight!
Susan, the shibori looks wonderful... particularly drawn to the reds - but then I'm a red girl, I guess.
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