Two destinations in New Jersey

Found this link on the Surface Design website: Textility, at the Visual Arts Center of NJ - that page has a slideshow.  It's located about 20 miles from the Quilt Fest of NJ. Both will be open March 1 - 4, so plan on going!

Radio show archive is available

You can now hear the radio show -  I am in the archive. It was interesting to do, and I'm so grateful for the opportunity! I'm not listening to myself tonight - too strange. Thanks for checking it out!

Talk Radio to start the New Year!

Wow – the time has flown by. I have some exciting news to share – I will be a guest on American Patchwork & Quilting Radio, hosted by Pat Sloan, next week, Monday, January 9, 2012, beginning at 4 PM EST. I have listened to several of the shows in the archive, and today I listened to it live. Pat has lots of great guests – I hope I do as well as they did. Pat sent me a list of topics to discuss – I’m sure we’ll have no trouble filling up the time slot!

Here’s a link:

You can listen live, or check it out later in the archives. Woo-hoo!

Somerset NJ Class posted

It has been in the works for a while now - I will be teaching a 3-hour Dye Boot Camp at the Quilt Fest of NJ VIII, on Friday morning, March 2, 2012. Here’s a link if you want to learn more about it:
http://www.quiltfest.com/workshop_detail.asp?id=1105

And my name is in their advertisement in Quilters Newsletter – woo-hoo! Hope to see you there!

A benefit from the Halloween snow

We got enough snow on the weekend of Halloween to enable me to make more snow-dyes. I used (Pro Chem names) Intense, Mixing and Navy blues, Mixing Red, Cerise (from Aljo), Strong Orange, Golden Yellow and Lemon Yellow. Without further ado, here are more pictures:

Thanks, Kay and Jan

Well, after seeing all the eye candy over on Kay Sorensen’s blog, I was inspired to take a pipe to a fat quarter. (That probably sounds very odd to the un-initiated!) Here’s the result:

Thanks for looking, and thanks for the inspiration. I hope there will be more to come!

Pipe Wrapping

Lots of recent discussion about pole wrapping, including on the DyersList and on Kay Sorensen’s blog, http://quiltspluscolor.blogspot.com/
Here’s a picture of my 9” long, 10” diameter polypropylene pipe, wrapped with 3 1/4 yards of silk broadcloth that was previously snow-dyed. It was folded lengthwise into 6ths – about 7 1/2” wide sections, and staggered so they aren’t all directly on top of each other. Then it was wrapped around the pole and string-wrapped. I was surprised that I could get the whole length onto the pole. Next step is discharge and/or vat dye and/or overdyeing with MX – pictures to follow. Oh, the black bands at top and bottom are lengths of rubber inner tube that act like giant rubber bands to keep the fabric and strings from sliding off one end as you push from the other.

OK, after getting Vicki's comment, I realized I missed a shameless commerce moment. I have the pipe for sale on my website, http://www.dippydyes.com/index.php/products/10-inch-polypropylene-pipe-for-high-temp-shibori, where it is priced by the inch. It's just plain expensive, but you should never need a new one, either. Right now there's about 60 inches remaining. Thanks.