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Look at all the amazing things happening at Penland Textiles on Flattop Friday!! #blacksmithing #penlandschoolofcrafts #penlandtextiles #flattopfriday #surfacedesign #thebigtable #color #play #textiledesign #alchemy #faerie #makers (at Penland School of Crafts) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqAs7KgDPTN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=fv8w9vatmoju

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Natural dye, lac, and Katazome resist on silk crepe. ❤️ #penlandtextiles (at Penland School of Crafts)

[penlandschool]

A little belated, but the best nonetheless! We just came across this sweet spring concentration class portrait from “Weaving: A Dialogue” with Tommye McClure Scanlin and Bhakti Ziek on Tommye’s blog. You can read more about her time teaching (and see lots more photos) here: http://tapestry13.blogspot.com/2017/04/week-six-is-over.html

[penlandschool]

This is our favorite artist/artwork portrait we’ve seen in a long, long time. Well done on all fronts, Sarah!

miss_sarah512: Messy bun meets artwork! Thank you to the sweetest (and insanely talented) @sarah.a_a for getting beautiful photos of this piece! I will post some detail shots soon!! 💕🌈 #weaving #pinkhair #penlandschoolofcrafts #sarahmakesartthings @weaving.a.dialogue

[indigofibershed-blog]

Hand embroidery on quilt top. Needed to anchor down the walnut dyed cheese cloth. I'm loving learning embroidery from an impressionist artist's point of view.

[indigofibershed-blog]

Back in the Textiles Studio at Penland School of Crafts. This time my class is embroidery from an impressionist painters point of view. I'm excited! This will be the wild card for my hand dyed improv quilts.

[indigofibershed-blog]

My analysis of the process is to think music. Listen to the electric Blues guitar of Jimi Hendricks perform Hear My Train A Comin’. (Web Link) Problems to Solve. Fabric puckers. Because we are cutt…

Expect problems and anticipate successful solutions when disregarding the natural grain of fabric.

[indigofibershed-blog]

My Recollection of Verbal Explanation of the Process

5th Summer Session, Upper Textiles in Lilly Loom, Penland School of Crafts: Improvisational accidental geometric piecing as explained by LUKE Haynes.  Process begins with a shopping trip to a Thrift Store.  Collect fabrics with multiple textures in lights, darks and an accent.  Collect a wide range of materials, bed sheets, jeans, dresses including prom, shirts, tablecloths etc.  Wash all garments in hot water. Dry.  Cut up garments.  Cut strips of cloth in irregular curvy line shapes from a light and dark contrasting fabric.  Don’t sort or organize strips.  Place strips in a 5-gallon bucket, mix up, randomly pull out strips and sew them together.  Press from the top.  Cut the created fabric three times and sew the four sections together in a different order. Press from the top.  Repeat the process this time adding a bling accent color in small amounts.  Continue the cut, mix-up and sew fabric process three or more times. Press from the top. Now use the created fabric in a quilt pattern.  You should have an accidental geometric pieced quilt top.

Use spray adhesive to affix quilt top to batting and backing fabric to batting.  Machine quilt the fabric sandwich.  Square up and trim quilt sandwich.  Cut bias strips for edge.