Dyeing + Shibori For Crafters
Thursdays 10:00 AM - 2 PM.
January 19 - March 8-
South San Francisco Parks & Recreation, 33 Arroyo Dr. (near El Camino)

It's easy to color up wool for your knitting, felting or crochet work and to create amazing shibori dyed patterns on silk and cotton yardage for quilting and sewing projects. Shibori is Japanese-style tie-dye. You'll learn several shibori dyeing techniques like wrapping, stitching, clamping and the "rope trick". We'll experiment with acid dyes for hot water, fiber-reactive dyes for cold water and natural dyes such as onion skins, brazilwood, madder roots, marigold blossoms and indigo. Natural dyes are full of surprises such as how some dye colors change when the water is more acid or more alkaline. Experience dyeing fiber is not necessary for this class. A sense of  adventure is a plus. Pre-registration required.
8 week class $111 (discount to seniors and SSF residents) +$25 supply fee that includes some white wool fleece or yarn and cotton yardage to dye.
Sign up online at http://www.ssf.net course code # 128075 or call 650-829-3800.

Carefree Quilting Connection
Tuesdays 1:00 - 3:30 PM
January 24 - April 17 (no class 4/3)
San Mateo Adult School, 789 E. Poplar St. Room 48.

Learn new quilting methods, try new tools, materials and techniques including how to use color in quilts, freestyle patchwork, applique and more. Enjoy the company of a friendly group of quilters of all levels. Try projects from Joy-Lily's new book Carefree Quilting or finish up your own projects. Bring sewing tools, projects in progress, your machine if possible.
12 week class $50 + $10 supply fee.
Call 650-558-2100, or register in class.
more student quilt photos

Quilting With Joy
Wednesdays 1 - 4 PM
January 18 - February 22 (Next 6-week session starts March 7. February 29 is volunteer day for both sessions.)
San Francisco Sewing & Quilting Collaborative, 2189 Bayshore Blvd.

Discover new methods, materials, quilting techniques including how to use color in quilts, freestyle patchwork, applique, and quilt finishing. Work among a small group of congenial quilters of all levels. Create projects from Joy-Lily's new book Carefree Quilting or finish up your own projects.
6 week class $48 + 3 hours volunteer time for SFS&QC. (see next listing).
Sign up: classes@joy-lily.com or call 415-826-8248.

Leap Day Free Class/Volunteer Session
at The Quilting Collaborative
February 29, Wednesday 11:00 - 4:00 PM
2189 Bayshore Blvd. San Francisco

Check out this beautiful new resource for quilters in the Visitation Valley district of San Francisco. Help us create some quilts destined for donation in the community. Learn a new quilt block and participate in assembling all the blocks made today into one or more quilt tops for this non-profit organization. All materials and electronic sewing machines are provided. (Note: The shop next door has a great selection of quilt fabrics at around $5 a yard. Volunteers are permitted to also shop from the vast selection of quilt fabrics in the sewing room.)

This class/volunteer session is FREE and open to all!
RSVP classes@joy-lily.com or call 415-826-8248.

Carefree Quilting Workshop
Sunday January 26, 10:30 - 4:30
at Sharon Art Studio, Golden Gate Park, SF.
Try out some "perfection-free" blocks from my just published book Carefree Quilts - A Freestyle Twist on Classic Designs and discover how easy it can be to create snazzy patchwork. Bring your sewing machine if possible. (A few will be available in class too.)

$82 ($72 for FOSAS Members.) Materials fee $20.

Sign up online at http://www.sfreconline.org course code TBA,
or call 415-753-7004

Faux-Batik Silk Scarf Workshop
Sunday February 19th, 10:30 - 4:30
at Sharon Art Studio, Golden Gate Park, SF.
Real batik requilres hot wax and multiple dyeing to get the dramatic effect of light patterns on darker backgrounds. This class offers a fast and fun shortcut to a similar look. In the morning we'll free-paint on silk scarves with vibrant permanent dyes. After the scarves are steamed to set the dye, we'll print more layers of design using patterned silk screens and a special bleach paste. The last step, steam ironing the silk turns these designs into surprising lighter shades, like magic.

$82 ($72 for FOSAS Members.) Materials fee $20.

Sign up online at http://www.sfreconline.org course code TBA,
or call 415-753-7004

Indigo Dyeing with Shibori Workshop
Sunday March 11 10:30 - 4:30
Sharon Art Studio, Golden Gate Park, SF.
Discover how easy it is to mix up and use and maintain a dye vat of pre-reduced indigo. Watch your cloth turn blue in the air, like magic. Create dramatic, colorfast, indigo blue and white patterns on your fabrics and clothing with a variety of shibori (Japanese tie-dyeing) techniques including: stitching, clamping, tying, pole wrapping and "the rope trick".

Class fee $82 ($72 for FOSAS members) + supply fee $15 for indigo. Bring natural fiber fabrics, T-shirts, socks, etc.
sign up online at http://www.sfreconline.org course code TBA,
or call 415-753-7004

Easter Egg Batik Workshop
Sunday April 1st 10:30 - 1:30 and second session 1:30 - 4:30
Sharon Art Studio, Golden Gate Park, SF.
Gorgeous one of a kind Easter eggs are easy to make with several layers of dribbled wax and multiple dips in dye. The edible results will look more like Jackson Pollock's work than Peter Cottontail's. Accompanied children 10 and up are welcome, one to one with adults. Bring your own dozen hard cooked eggs to dye.

Class fee TBA, supply fee TBA
sign up online at http://www.sfreconline.org course code TBA,
or call 415-753-7004

Nature PrintingWorkshop
Sunday April 22nd 10:30 - 4:30
Sharon Art Studio, Golden Gate Park, SF.
Creat organic art prints and cards on this Earth Day by inking up combinations of leaves, twigs, feathers and other natural objects. Print them on the studio's new proof press.

Class fee $82 ($72 for FOSAS members) + supply fee $15 . Bring natural flattish found objects..
sign up online at http://www.sfreconline.org course code TBA,
or call 415-753-7004

Intro to Felting: How the Impressionists Felt! Sunday May 6th 10:30 - 4:30 at Sharon Art Studio in Golden Gate Park.

Blend colorful, wispy bits wool fleece together to assemble a felted wall piece. For your design adapt a segment from a work by a favorite Impressionist, perhaps Monet, Van Gogh, Matisse, Degas, Gauguin... or even your own impressionistic art. Plenty of images of familiar Impressionists works will be on hand to use for guidance. After putting together your fleece picture, learn to felt it and shrink it into a solid piece of fabric that will be suitable for framing or for hanging directly.

$82 ($72 for FOSAS members.) + supply fee: $20.
sign up online at http://www.sfreconline.org course code TBA,
or call 415-753-7004

Make Your Own Class!

Shibori Scarf Party

Get a group of your friends to get together in your home and create beautiful, original scarves with this fascinating, goof-proof textile technique. Make gorgeous silk scarves while learning a new art form. (Fiber art experience is not necessary.) With 8 attendees paying $45 each including the first silk scarf, you, as host get the class free.

Call me to schedule a Shibori Party: 415-826-8248.

Shibori photos!

Get the Blues with Indigo Party

Get a group of your friends to get together in your back yard or kitchen. Discover how easy it is to mix up, use and maintain a dye vat of pre-reduced indigo (a natural dye). Create dramatic, colorfast, blue and white patterns on your linens, quilt fabric and clothing with a variety of shibori (Japanese tie-dyeing) techniques including: stitching, clamping, tying, pole wrapping and "the rope trick" Watch your cloth turn blue in the air, like magic!

With 8 attendees paying $45 each including a first silk scarf, you, as host, get the class free.

Call me to plan an Indigo Party: 415-826-8248.

For information on any class, or to register, (unless otherwise noted) contact: classes@joy-lily.com 415-826-8248.

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