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Chad Alice Hagen
9 - 4:30
Saturday

H129 - Hand Felted Bark Scarf

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$ 125  

The Bark Scarf - beautiful Art for your creative body. When you have this scarf around your neck, everyone will know that within your soul lives a beautiful and interesting spirit.
Join us for a busy day learning to transform instructor-dyed fine Australian Merino needle punch batts by felting them into soft but durable textiles.  Next, design and stitch your scarf using an  
ancient Japanese resist technique called Mokume, which means 'tree bark'.  Then we will learn the basics of setting up a safe at-home dye kitchen and we will dye the scarves in fabulous deep, rich colors. The best part comes at the end when you will start to clip open the stitches and the bark-like pattern emerges. It will be like opening presents at the holidays!
A fabulous design plus to this scarf is the special quality of felted wool which - when stitched tightly and placed in the hot water dye bath - retains the texture of the stitching, so you get a scarf with the 'bark' pattern both in the colors AND in the texture!  What can be more wonderful?  

$25 Materials fee payable to the instructor includes:

All hand dyed fine merino needle punch batts

All dyes and dye equipment

Felting soap

bandaids

Heavy cotton string/needles

Handouts

Plastic for table covers, markers

Supplies Students need to bring:

2 old hand towels

waterproof apron or large plastic bag

Kitchen type rubber gloves

scissors

plastic bag to take scarf home

CLOSED - CLASS FULL