Fire at Judith’s Studio
Remains of Judith’s Studio
As many of you have heard, Judith MacKenzie’s teaching studio burned down in the early hours of Monday morning. She has lost all weaving and spinning equipment. There is now a website to help her rebuild her studio.
If you are able to, please consider donating to help this wonderful woman who has been so generous with her time and knowledge. I personally would not be the person I am today without her help, in more ways than just spinning and weaving.
I just realized that I never posted about the wonderful Katazome Workshop I took with Karen Miller. Tien did a nice write up here and here because I’m too lazy to cull through my pictures and put words together. Instead, let me show you 2 of my finished items from the workshop.
Paper Cranes
As you can see, I didn’t ensure clean contact when I applied my paste and the paste “leaked” under my stencil and caused some blotches. This was about 6 or so layers of indigo paint (powdered indigo in soy milk). The center had a few fewer layers of indigo but additional layers of red pigment painted on.
Chrysanthemums
I had fun layering on colors. I started with the pale yellow/gold as an all over color before adding the layers of purple, orange, red and green.
I plan on making pillow covers with these.
And just for fun, I’ll leave you with a different sort of cranes that Lyn made in class.
Lyn’s Cranes