WHAT COULD THIS BE???

What is it? Yes siree!  It's that fabulous FELTING MAGIC with SILK HANKIES WORKSHOP!

JOIN US!

Felting Magic with Silk Hankies 
Date:      Mon, Feb 09 & Tues, Feb 10
2-day Class...MUST attend both days
Time:   9:00-2:00   1/2 hour lunch
Cost:   $190.00 PLUS materials

Surface design fun in this workshop using silk hankies, eco-prints, silk saris, pre-felts, hand-dyed yarns, hand carded wools, found items, you name it!  This 2-day class will give us time to explore several felting techniques as well as surface design elements such as dimension, texture, color, flow, and balance.  Set yourself free and join us!

520-873-7388 Susan or Sally

Nature Prints in Progress!

Nature Prints in progress!  Spirited Hands Studio is starting off 2015 with a wonderful workshop that incorporates your feltmaking with eco-dyeing...Make 4 wool samples using 4 different dye baths and a variety of plant specimens.  Choose one of your samples to transform into a lovely Nature Print Wall Blessing embellished with stitchery, sari silk cords, and upcycled beads and bits.

Nature Print Wall Blessing Workshop

2-day class    Monday, January 12 and Friday, January 16

9:00 - 2:00 each day

Held at Spirited Hands Studio in Tucson, Az

Cost:   $190.00  includes materials

REGISTER at www.spiritedhandsstudio.com

contact:   feltingmagic@gmail.com

Grand Opening Eco Dye Jacket!

After 2 hours and 15 minutes of "cooking" in the pot, one day resting in the pot, and one day resting out of the pot we finally got to open our eco dye jacket bundle!  Needless to say the anticipation was at fever pitch! Hope you enjoy this video of the opening process.  We still will have a day of drying, ironing, rinsing, and more ironing before our piece is ready for a final unveiling...

Adventures in Eco-Dyeing

Hope you enjoy one of my first attempts at a video production!  It chronicles some of our adventures in Eco Dyeing...this time a wet-felted jacket that Sally made awhile ago.  We have used 2 types of Eucalyptus leaves and bark, African Sumac leaves, Blossoming Plum leaves for the botanicals.  The mordants are vinegar, iron water, and maybe some input from the aluminum pot!  Now to wait a couple of days and see what magic happens!

Look what she did!

She...Sally...was at the old dye pots again this time with eucalyptus. She conjured up this lovely color for this nuno-felt top. Quite enchanting.