Day Two with Elin Noble

 It was an absolutely beautiful day here 

at Arrowmont!

The sun was shining,

the sky was a beautiful deep blue,

and we were in our workshop with

Elin Noble!

All was right with the world!

I began my day by discharging the black shirt

I had worn to class

yesterday:

Most of my 'work' shirts are 

the Faded Glory brand,

and you can see how the black tees 

discharge in Thiox.

One of our classmates lives on a ranch

and they castrate animals occasionally.

She brought in a castrating tool....... 

and a bag of about 100 heavy duty rubber bands.

I used said tool and bands to enclose

styrofoam peanuts

on this piece of hand-dyed red rayon:

It came out looking like this:

I also used it on this piece of hand-dyed linen:

and got this out of the bath:

and then this after unfurling:

I also tried resisting on this piece of hand-dye:

and after a second step,

I ended up with this:

This is a piece of folded and stitch-resisted linen:

after the discharge bath:

after removing stitches

and unfolding:

and here is the piece I held between my toes

yesterday:

(it's the large piece in the center -

pardon me, I'm too tired and it's too late

for cropping!)

thanks for dropping by

PEACE to YOU!