Something About Nothing

For many years my quilt guild, Quilter's Holladay, has had an annual Dye Party. It's been my pleasure to be in charge of the party for a few years now. Sadly, Covid kept us from partying last year, so we were even more excited to all be vaccinated and able to party again this year! There were 15 people participating in the dyeing, and another 5-8 people who came just to visit. One of Betty Jo's beautiful trees in her amazing backyard. I do love a good tree. The sun was shining in to the branches in an amazing way. The photo does not do it justice. Jan painting on dye Andrea showing off her spiral shirts Ruth (left) checking out the ice and Patti headed to the dye table with her rubber banded dress This is me enjoying being with people again. Behind me you can see the field which is rented out for some miniature horses, and the tennis courts. (L to R) Patti, Becky, Wendy's back, Mitzi and Barbara Shaving cream marbling Helen creating some yumminess And here are a few of ...

Over the past 10 years (maybe more) our guild has been having a dye party every July. Batik artist, Anne Munoz, started out as our leader in this endeavor and then somehow or another I got put in charge. hahaha I love it. It's a great party. Each year we will have a few newbies, but for the most part everyone knows what they are doing and they go at it. Andrea trying to decide on a color. This is always the hardest part. Paula creating fabulous designs. Wendy trying her hand at abstract dye painting. Shaving cream marble printing is always fun. Someone added a second piece of fabric to see if the dyes were still good after marbling. Gorgeous! I found these drops of dye from the ice dyeing beautiful. Everyone has come up with interesting containers for their ice dyeing over the years. Ruth protecting herself while shaking on some dyes for ice dyeing. Jill creating a Shibori piece to dye. Someone sprinkled some Urea over a beau...

Every July my quilt guild has a dye party. For some members it is the only time they get to dye, and even though others dye often, it is always fun to dye as a group.  More colors, lots of great ideas shared, and just fun to be together. Betty Jo (back left) has let us use her lovely yard for the last ten years. Not everyone dyes fabrics during the party.  Some sit and stitch, or just visit, and some bring wonderful show and tell projects like this one made by Ruth.  Anne and I mixed the dyes in a very heavy concentrate. We have two junior members in the guild and this is one of their favorite nights too. Betty Jo has property in the back which she rents out for grazing.   This year it was these beautiful miniature ponies.  The group likes to do ice dyeing so I set up a "station" which allows them to dye without the powders flying. They place their bucket or bag in the box, then don a mask and glasses before applying the dy...

 Every year we have a dye party with a quilt guild.  I was in charge of putting together the party this year and sharing my knowledge. We had 23 dye colors, sodium alginate, shaving cream, ice, ziplock bags, and lots of stamps to play with! Everyone brings their own table, table cloth and containers to create with. Andrea (on the left) has done this a few years and brought take out containers to dye in so that she could cover them up and take them home to continue processing.  Smart woman!  No wonder she is president of our guild.  Not everyone comes to the party to dye.  Many come to stitch and visit and. . .  . . .eat snacks.  This year I decided to create a color chart. I wrote the color names on a piece of soda ashed pfd and then painted on some dye.  It was interesting to see how some of the colors have a tendency to break down as they spread. There was a lot of beautiful shaving cream marbling going on. ...