A few weeks ago I taught my first class at Pioneer Craft House here is Salt Lake City. It's quite different from a shop setting, much more like art school. The level of the students that signed up was amazing, they were definitely seasoned seamstresses and produced many more bowls in our two sessions together than I thought possible. One of the student had even sewn her own machine to exhaustion and used the B 580 instead (lucky lady!)
In the forefront, the first basket made by P, in the back one of mine. Batiks make extremely sturdy and firm wall that fray less than regular fabric, notice how my baskets experiences more fraying.
The basket in the front can be either round or hand molded as shown bellow, while the one in the back is adorned on the last row with eyelash yarn:
Our happy pile:
I will be offering this class at least once a year at PCH, watching the students create such marvels was incredibly gratifying;those two evenings made me love teaching all over again.
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These are gorgeous!
Posted by: Addie Zierman | April 11, 2012 at 08:39 AM