Check out Bobbie's art at Galleries and Etsy Art Shop
Email her with questions and/or booking a workshop or class.
• Bobbie loves sharing her passion in textile art and design.
• She will construct a class especially for you or your group, 6th graders to 106 year olds.
• She can host an activity or meeting in her conference room.
• She can host an art retreat for friends or guilds in her studio or your facility. Women stay overnight or for a week. She has up to six beds with two full baths. And for the agile, there’s plenty of space for sleeping bags and BYO air mattresses.
Bobbie Helps Organize Your StudioHave a spare bedroom? Transform it into your studio. Or maybe you set aside studio space and it’s stacked with sacks of stash. Can you find your supplies and tools quickly? Good chance you have treasures you’ve forgotten, too. Bobbie’s organizational skills are so strong she enjoys helping others create a well structured and labeled work environment. Everything will have its place and be within easy reach.
TEXTILE ART CLASSES
Feet First
1 hr
Student brings a freshly laundered (no fabric softener) 100% natural fiber (cotton, linen, rayon) socks or purchase a pair of bamboo socks from Bobbie. Dyeing each additional pair $4.
Screen Play
6 – 3 hr classes
You can act up in this class. We will focus on using plain wooden framed silk screens for different ways of applying thickened dye on cloth. The discovery process will use stencils you make, masks, found objects, … that will produce organic and representational imagery. Homework is needed for personal imagery. You supply 2 screens and fabric. Let’s play with screen printing on fabric.
Screen Play
3 hr segments
Mono Print Mono
6 – 3 hr classes
We’re gonna mono print on fabric in many different ways with thickened dye. Left brains will be engaged and introduced to the right brain. Stretch, play, dance in this freeform dye play. You supply your fabric. Homework, yes, includes gathering ideas for mark making.
Mono Play
3 hr segments
Dye Together – Parent/Child
1½ hrs
6 years old and up
This is a date for you and your child to dye together. With one parent, their shirt, to one child, their shirt, Bobbie leads. While you learn to chemically bond dye particles to your shirt, you'll bond a bit more with one of the most special people in your life. And again each time you wear your shirts.
Dye Together – Husband/Wife
1½ hrs
Gather a few couple friends (or not) to splash color into your date night. Husband/Wife, both bring a white, 100% natural shirt top. No, it doesn’t need to be matching shirts. The only manipulation allowed is to the fabric in order to create patterning. Even left brains will enjoy this. Bonding guaranteed.
Youth Top This
1½ hrs
10 years and up
Nothing more fun than dyeing your own shirt, except wearing it. Bobbie has many samples and colors for inspiration. Create your own one-of-a-kind wearable art.
Adult Top This
1½ hrs
Nothing more fun than dyeing your own shirt, except wearing it. Bobbie has many samples and colors for inspiration. Create your own one-of-a-kind wearable art. Student brings a freshly laundered (no fabric softener) 100% natural fiber (cotton, linen, rayon) shirt.
Guild & Logo Shirts
1½ hrs & 1 hr
Have a guild that would like to dye a shirt and print their logo? I got ya covered. Individuals dye their own unique shirt and later print with a common logo.
I’ll Dye Trying
3 hrs
Love handdyed fabrics but thought them too difficult or just didn’t know where to start? Get a taste of how easy, safe, and fast you can dye your own unique, colorfast fabrics. You’ll create 9 one-yard piece of your favorite single and multi-colored fabric. With structure, this free-spirited method of low-water immersion dyeing comes from Ann Johnston’s Color By Accident and Bobbie’s 19 years of dyeing. (This is the first class in the Art Cloth Series.)
Silk Scarf Dye Workshop
1 hr
In this workshop, we will dye a silk scarf. It’s fast, easy, fun and around your neck or waist at the end of class. Dye a second one for a friend for an extra $10.
Dye & Bead A Silk Scarf
4 hrs
Amaze yourself and others by creating a unique and stunning art piece. Students will dye a silk scarf and then bead an easy and fast fringe.
Dye Study Course
7 - 3 hr sessions
Whether you’ve dyed for years or never, Bobbie has designed a structured seven week in-class exercise course to begin understanding fiber reactive dyes. Eight students will make a dye sample book that includes 8 different colors wheels, color ranges between two colors, value gradations and more. Less students require more classes. This foundational class will equip you to begin your own journey of experiments to enlarge your dye samples. Class recommended but not required for her Artcloth Study Course. Fabric Kit for Sample Book $30 for 8 students.
Artcloth
12 -3 hr Sessions (36 hrs)
It’s layers of colors, visual texture, and/or imagery on fabric that can be hung or draped in your home. It can be made into wearable art or used in quilts. Each class introduces you to new subject matter. You’ll create items for subsequent classes until the culmination of layered artcloth. You’ll dye, make stamps and silk screens, decolor, work with thickened dyes and more. Homework required.
DYEING FOR QUILTERS
Two Color Dye Run
2½ hrs
With eleven fat quarters you’ll choose two different colors (ei. blue and yellow) to dye the steps of gradations between the two. Possibilities are interesting and endless. If you choose complimentary colors (ei. blue and orange), you'll produce muted versions of your original colors and a few different browns. A dye run set works together perfectly in a quilt.
Gradation Dye Set
2½ hrs
Choose a color and dye eight values of it along with two muted steps. You'll create ten harmonious fat quarters. You might even want to do one session dyeing black to very light gray.
Hand Dye a Rainbow
1½ hrs
Dye two yards in multiple colors on one piece of fabric.
THEN THERE'S
Beaded Earrings, Bracelet, Necklace…
Learn to Knit
AND SEW ON
Artsy Purse
5 sessions or 2 days (15 hrs) with homework.
Some sewing experience needed.
Create your own unique purse that'll bring admiration from all. Bobbie will guide you through designing, paper piecing, simple construction, and custom interior pockets. We will also touch on options of surface embellishing like couching yarns and using your sewing machine's decorative stitches with decorative threads. By the end of class you should finish your first purse and won't want to stop with making more of these show-stopping Artsy Purses.
Art Quilt classes
Journal Quilts
Paper Piecing
Surface Embellishment via Sewing Machine
AND More…
Bobbie’s Studio Prices are subject to change
Private Lessons @ $35 hour
Semi-Private each student @ $20 hour
3-6 Students each @ $10 per hour
without kits and supplies
Classes currently available Weekday, Evening or Saturday, beginning 10 am ending to 9:30 pm
Email me to schedule and for information.
God Bless and happy creating!
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