Shibori

On the weekend (geez that sounds like a primary school recount writing starter!) I attended a workshop at Shibori in Sydney with the Spoolettes. I don't often attend creative or sewing workshops, as it's just a little too hard to organise babysitters on the weekend, but this was one I really wanted to attend.

The workshop certainly didn't disappoint.  Pepa and Karen taught us the basics of a few different shibori techniques, then supported us as we dyed away.

While we were supplied a few pieces of fabric to experiment with, we were also allowed to dye our own. Susan kindly offered to purchase us fabric for us and I'm pretty sure most of us took her up on that offer. Here Lizzy and I are wrangling our silk and trying to fold neat, straight concertina folds. Why not use the best when learning right?

Thankfully both of our pieces worked out. My silk piece is the front of the line with the triangle block design.

By the time we finished the workshop, we has a whole clothesline full of pieces and many that were draped across chairs and tables to dry.

Hopefully in the coming weeks we'll see some finished garments from these unique pieces. Thanks again to Susan for coordinating the day. As I'm not a big photo taker, I've also borrowed one of her photos and a few of Melanie's. Check out Susan's blog for more pics.