Prep for Sue Benner's Dye Class at the Crow Barn

I'm so excited to be going to Nancy Crow's Barn in Ohio on Sunday to take Sue Benner's five-day class, BROAD BRUSH: DYE-PAINTING AND PRINTING WITH PROCION DYES. But getting ready -- yikes! We (my Sea Ranch and Art Quilt Group friend, Barbara, and I) are bringing 25 one-yard pieces of fabric, plus some silk scarves, washed and then soaked in soda ash. The problem is . . . you aren't supposed to do the soda ash soak too far in advance, so I left it to do this week, and all it's done is rain this week--gale force, no less. You can't dry the pieces in a dryer, and it's best to soak the pieces outdoors in a tub rather than put it down a drain into the septic system. So these photos show Batch One out on the line to dry in the fog -- fat chance -- and then the same clothesline transferred indoors, where it goes from the living room drapery rod to a kitchen drawer handle, then back out to the hinge of the master bedroom door.

Meanwhile, I am working on the piece I blogged about yesterday, ducking under the clothesline each time I go anywhere in the house. (No studio here--yet.) Two more batches to do tomorrow. Hoping for some sunshine!