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This class will thrill the textile designer in you!

Create your own fabric with cyanotype, an old photographic process that produces blue and white images on cloth when exposed to the sun or other ultraviolet light source.  The print of the waves and moon shows one of Sylvia Pippen's fabric pieces combining cyanotype and sashiko.

Sylvia Pippen is a contemporary quilt designer, author, and teacher who combines cyanotype prints, hand sashiko and appliqués in her glowing quilts.  She comes to the Pacific Northwest from Hawaii.  Her love of the ocean, tropical plants, and gardens are reflected in her stunning quilts.

You have the opportunity to take one or both of the workshops that Sylvia will be offering the weekend of August 12th and 13th.

The Cyanotype Printing Workshop takes place Saturday, August 12th and will focus on the use of light to create striking images on fabric.  For cyanotype printing, you will use pretreated fabric.  Imagery such as leaves, paper silhouettes or designs drawn or printed on transparencies are placed on top of treated cotton fabric. The fabric is then exposed to ultraviolet light, rinsed and dried, revealing your design. Images can be very graphic or more muted by controlling exposure time and how much contact the imagery has with the cloth.

You can also take Sylvia's Sashiko Workshop on Sunday, August 13th (Register for that class here.)  Sashiko is a traditional Japanese technique that uses simple, yet elegant, stitches to create intricate designs. Sylvia provides more detail about the art and tradition of sashiko on her website.

If you take both workshops you will  create the fabric design on the first day and combine it with sashiko on the second. Take away enough fabric to develop a quilt top or clothing and the skills to easily create your own fabric at home.

Material Fees: $28 for 1 yd x 60” Kona Cotton treated with Cyanotype.  (Optional: You can order more treated fabric, including different colors, from www.blueprintsonfabric.com.)

• A check or money order for $28 made out to Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network.

• Sack lunch
  
• Small sharp cloth and paper scissors
• Ruler or tape measure
• Mop up cloths (such as handi-wipes )
  
• Gloves
  
• Small-headed pins for pinning down botanicals to your boards
  
• Several old towels to lay out your wet print
  
• 1/4" - 1" foam boards that fit the dimensions of your glass; include a board at least 18" x 24". You can get a foam core board from an office supply store or you can use a piece of foam insulation.
  
• Quilt batting to cover the foam boards (helps make better contact when under glass
  
• Clear thin picture frame glass, non UV protected. Bring several sizes such as 12"x 12" for small experimental prints and larger glass approximately 12" x 18". Exact dimensions are not important! Please wrap the edges with electrical tape for safety. (There will be extra glass available for use)
  
• Permanent magic markers to trace designs onto acetate sheets. (The acetate will be provided.)
  

• Bring leaves, grasses or flowers. They can be fresh or pressed first. Look for feathery grasses, finely cut leaves such as Japanese maple, pine, spruce or cedar, or any herbaceous leaves of  poppy, columbine, bleeding heart, etc. that have interesting shapes.  If you have any paper silhouettes, feathers, doilies, or lace, bring them. Anything that is intricately cut works well.