There are so many ways to express yourself. Count our first two classes in August, Basketry: Covered Coiling with Lynn Schuster and Making Your Mark: A Fabric Journey with Stephanie Lewis Robertson among them!
By completely covering the core material with various yarns and expanding or decreasing the spiral core while constructing a basket was the method used in this class. As Lynn related to the students, the basket will tell you what it wants as far as its shape, rim and embellishment.
The students commented on the relaxed and meditative-type atmosphere that was inherent in the wrapping and stitching of their baskets.
Expressing yourself and telling your own story through fabric is the basis of Stephanie’s fabric printing and dyeing class. Experimenting with silk screening, dyeing, direct painting, shibori and more, the students put on a show of color and creativity.
(By the way, there are people in this class! They just didn’t happen to be in the scope of the lens at the time of the photos.)
Ice dyeing, discharge techniques, indigo and more make this class a beautiful journey indeed!
As the Making Your Mark class is in session for seven days, you’ll see more photos of what they’re working on in the next posting along with expression through beadwork in Diane Fitzgerald’s Beading without Boundaries. Until then, continue to express yourself creatively wherever you are!
It was so good to be back on the island again. Lynn Schuster’s coiled basketry class was so inspirational. I learned so much from Lynn and the others in the class. Thanks so much for Siever’s….my favorite place to spend a few summer days.
Thank you, Karen! It was great to have you in class and we look forward to seeing you the next time!
Please ask Stephanie what/how the dyeing for the first left hand photo and the last left hand photo. All photos and results are wonderful and look like such fun.
Liz Carpenter are hoping to sign up for next summer.
Hi Sally Jo! We missed you and Liz from last year! I asked about those two pieces. The person who made them said the orange-ish rectangles was a deconstructed screen print. The lime green long rectangle was also screen printing, using freezer paper. Hope that answers your questions!
Take care and hope to see you again,
Carolyn