Class with Tone Haugen-Cogburn

My quilt guild - the Smoky Mountain Quilters of Tennessee finally offered a workshop. It was taught by my friend and fellow guild member, Tone Haugen-Cogburn. They held it at Jerry's Artarama. I love that store! An artist dream shop. It was the perfect place. They have a large area in the back with a concrete floor and since we were working with dyes, it was okay if we made a mess. I have taken several classes from Tone. A couple of quilting, but most wet felting. She is a marvelous teacher. In this class, we mixed up dyes and used the dye to paint plain 8 1/2 x 11 inch white paper. (like the paper you run through your printer.) Then we would press the paper on our fabric. The fabric had to be part polyester. The biggest the percentage of polyester, the better the dye adhered to the fabric. We used leaves as resists. The leaves would pick up some of the dye as we pressed it with our irons which made the leaf transfer that color to our fabric. My favorite pieces I did occurred on ribbon. It really captured the color. It was a great two day class. So much fun. One woman brought in her press, like the one you use to press things at the dry cleaners. It really transferred the paint. It is always fun to learn new things.