First Day of Class

Well, yesterday was our first full day of class. The weather was beautiful, the food at the barn was incredible, and everyone worked their tushies off.

First some photos...

Here's a picture of the 125 year old barn that Nancy's family moved to their land and restored into a two-level classroom building/studio with a big kitchen and dining room. There is a dye studio downstairs and our class is upstairs. There are about 18 people in our class.

I couldn't resist a photo of Nancy's hand dyed stash of fabrics (below). She gets such rich and beautiful colors by dying and then over-dying the fabric a couple of times.

The last two photos show Nancy's house and my end products from yesterday's exercise.

She had us sew 12 strips of fabric. Six were white lines in the center enclosed by two black lines, and six were black lines in the center enclosed by two white lines. Then we cut those strips crosswise into varying sized widths. With those pieces we created two compositions. I finally finished at 9:30 last night, and when I finally got to bed, I could hardly fall asleep. I had visions and ideas keeping me wired.

Today we'll work in color, but first we'll have show and tell. Everyone in class has either brought slides or actual pieces to show. Should be fun.