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SUMMARY:Indigo Dyeing with Bea Byrne
DESCRIPTION:Join Bea for open dyeing at WorkshopSF. Guidance will be available for those new to dyeing. Experienced people can dive right in! \nThis is a bring your own fabric/items workshop\, although some blank bandanas and tea towels will be available to purchase. Fabric should be pre-washed and cut to 1/2 yard lengths or smaller. A maximum of 8 items (4 yards of fabric) can be dyed although you may only have time for 6. Cotton and silk ONLY. Synthetics will not dye. You can bring clothing to dye as well as yardage\, and items do not have to be white. \nNeed fabric? Bea recommends Dharma Trading in San Rafael who also have an excellent mail delivery service. https://www.dharmatrading.com/ They have blank tops\, skirts\, bags etc as well as yardage. \nWorkspace\, gloves\, dye vats\, rinsing space\, aprons and items like string and clothes pins will be provided. You are welcome to bring any specialised items you might want to use in your dyeing. You will go home with your damp items in a plastic bag. \nIf the afternoon session sells out (max 10 people) we will add a morning session 10am-1pm. Join the waitlist if places have filled up. \nThe venue is WorkshopSF is a local SF institution that has been teaching people to sew\, dye\, weave\, mold\, embroider and more for more than 15 years. The venue has a bathroom but no kitchen. Attendees are welcome to bring drinks and food with them plus there are local coffee shops and a bodega across the street. Parking is limited street parking and mostly paid\, with fines heavily enforced\, but the area is well served by public transit (address 1310 Haight St). \nThe Teacher \nBea Byrne is a local artist and teacher who teaches Shibori classes (traditional japanese dyeing) at WorkshopSF at least once a month. She is a past President of SF Quilters Guild as well as having co-chaired the 2023 Quilt Show. She is the current Workshops Chair and contributes in other ways to current Guild activities. You can find her at beabyrne.com and on Instagram. Bea is available to teach classes and team building sessions around the Bay Area. \nBea is donating her time and knowledge for the afternoon session. \nTickets \nBuy tickets here. \nTickets are open to members of the SF Quilters Guild ONLY until June 30th. Any remaining tickets after this date will go on general sale. Think about joining today! \nSFQG operates an equity ticket program to help those members facing financial difficulty be able to attend events. No one will know if you buy an equity ticket other than the Workshop Chair. Details about the program can be found here. \nCancellation\, Refund and other policies are here. \nFAQs\n \nDo I need to be a quilter to attend? No\, definitely not. You can dye fabric and clothing or household items for any reason/usage. Bea will instruct anyone not familiar with the technique. \nCan I do batik dyeing? You cannot put anything except clean\, damp fabric in the vats. No wax or any other resist methods as this will create a mess for other dyers.
URL:https://www.sfquiltersguild.org/event/august-2026-workshop/
LOCATION:WorkshopSF\, 1310 Haight Street\, San Francisco\, 94117\, United States
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SUMMARY:Finishing & Binding with Lorraine Woodruff-Long
DESCRIPTION:Join renowned artist and teacher Lorraine Woodruff-Long as she helps us get ready for the SFQG Show\, 2-3 April 2027\, with a class on finishing and binding. Lorraine will take us through multiple techniques to ensure your quilts are finished to a high standard. \nGet ready for your next quilt show! Binding is often a quilters least favorite part of quilting. Never fear – it’s possible to love the process and your result! In this workshop I’ll show you: \n\nHow to create\, attached and sew-down well-constructed double-fold binding to protect the edges of bed and larger quilts.\nHow to face a quilt (not visible from the front) for floating wall and art quilts.\nWhen to use and how to create bias-binding.\nHow to easily make a hanging sleeve to ensure your quilt hangs easily and falls straight cleanly when mounted to a wall or frame.\n\nThe venue is the rear classroom at St Anne’s. There is ample parking at the rear of the church on the basketball courts. \nSupply List \n\nStudents must provide and know the basics of their own working sewing machine\nFabric (I’ll teach all three of these)\n\nFor on-grain binding: ½” yard\nFor bias binding technique: ½” yard\nFor sleeve: Fabric or sheet that is at least 9” x (width of your quilt) Or bring a sheet as a\nsample to learn.\nNote: I’ll provide quilted samples that you can use to attach binding to learn to bind and\nface a quilt\, or you can bring your own quilt to bind. But bring fabric for binding and a\nsleeve.\n\n\nThread for machine\nSharp fabric scissors/shears\n45” or 60” Rotary cutter\n3”x18” acrylic ruler (or other favorite size that is long-ish)\nPortable cutting mat\nSewing pins/pincushion or magnetic pin catcher\nSewing pins & needles\nGlue stick or Elmers glue\nToilet paper or paper towel rolls to roll up your binding\nBring a water bottle and snacks\n\nThe Teacher \nLorraine Woodruff-Long is a San Francisco quilter with a primary focus on color\, improvisation\, and recycled/repurposed fabrics\, who is passionate about creating quilts as political and social commentary. She is familiar under her quilting name @quiltinginthefog. \nRaised in Houston\, and educated at University of Texas/Austin\, Lorraine served in Peace Corps Kenya and afterwards moved to California as a “bucket list” dream to temporarily experience living in a progressive urban city. She fell in love with San Francisco and never left. After a career in marketing and advertising\, Lorraine later worked in the nonprofit sector while raising two city kids with her architect husband before spring boarding into a fiber art practice prompted by the pandemic. \nLorraine’s work has been juried into art exhibitions at the de Young Museum/San Francisco\, the California Heritage Museum/Santa Monica\, Slate Contemporary Art Offsite Exhibitions\, the Sanchez Art Center/Pacifica\, Muzeo Museum & Cultural Center/Anaheim\, TAG Gallery/Los Angeles the Drawing Room/San Francisco\, and the Bedford Gallery-Lesher Center for the Arts/Walnut Creek. She has received numerous awards for her quilts at local\, national and international quilt shows. Quilt exhibitions include the International Quilt Festival/Houston\, QuiltCon\, Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA)\, and Quilt San Francisco among others. \nTickets \nBuy tickets here. \nTickets are open to members of the SF Quilters Guild ONLY until July 31st. Any remaining tickets after this date will go on general sale. Think about joining today! \nSFQG operates an equity ticket program to help those members facing financial difficulty be able to attend events. No one will know if you buy an equity ticket other than the Workshop Chair. Details about the program can be found here. \nCancellation\, Refund and other policies are here.
URL:https://www.sfquiltersguild.org/event/september-2026-workshop/
LOCATION:St. Anne of the Sunset\, 850 Judah Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
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