Friday, November 1st
11am-3:30pm

Member: $55
Non-Member: $65
Limit: 12 participants
Ages 12+

Materials provided for vessel by instructor:
Materials Fee $30 (to be paid directly to instructor upon arrival).

Create your own unique Fiber Fusion Vessel in class using wool, silk, bamboo, Firestar, Angelina and other fibers along with tidbits of your choice, all included in the materials fee! You'll make a pattern and arrange your fibers on a screen. Prepare the fibers to open them up, then easily apply the art varnish that will hold those fibers together. (This is NOT labor intensive like felting - woohoo!) You’ll carefully lift it off the screen and place the wet fiber fusion on a vase that's suspended upside-down on a stand to dry.

Learn lots of tips and tricks that make it easy to get spectacular results! You’ll complete your vessel in class and either take it home to dry, or you can leave it at the Center and pick it up in a few days when it's completely dry. A detailed color handout and tip sheet will be your reference for making more vessels at home, and fairy lights are included in your choice of 9 colors.

These fiber fusion vessels make nice gifts, bet you can't make just one! Debbie will also demonstrate how to bond silk fibers to a glass vase permanently. See many examples on the Vessels pages at www.debbiejones.com/silkfusionvessels.html

Materials students should provide:

-Partial roll of paper towels.
-A few old towels to soak up water.
-Glass vase to use as a mold for your vessel, 9" tall or less. Vase MUST be smaller at the bottom than it is at the top, or same diameter top and bottom. No hourglass shaped vases. If in doubt, bring several.
-A stand to place upside-down vase on while the vessel dries (wine or olive oil bottle should do) to keep vase from touching the table. (Debbie will bring extras.)
-Box or plastic bin or 5-gallon bucket in which to transport your wet vessel home.
-If you wear long sleeves, you'll want to push or roll them up in class.

Questions? Call Debbie at 505-362-2675 or email debbie@debbiejones.com

Materials Instructor will provide:

-Many kinds of fiber, including silk, bamboo, wool and synthetic fibers -Sparkly tidbits that you can include in your vessel
-Silk sari threads
-Cheesecloth Screens, brushes, pattern supplies, sugar scrub, apron, chopstick, soap, plastic
-Fine art varnish Fairy lights, 20 strand, in your choice of 9 colors,
_A detailed color handout and tip sheet to take home with your vessel.

About Debbie Jones: Debbie Jones has been playing with fabric since early childhood, first making crafts and then clothes, quilts and fabric collage. Her passion and curiosity to try new things led her to discover fiber fusion, bonding wisps of unspun fiber together to create beautifully textured fabric that is stitched into many of her art quilts. She also shapes fibers while wet to make 3-D vessels that glow at night with fairy lights. These fiber techniques are similar to felting but with less labor and lots more fun! Debbie’s award winning fiber art has been displayed in galleries and at art shows, and is in collections around the world. Based in Albuquerque, she has been teaching her techniques nationwide for over 20 years, including at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu and the International Quilt Festival in Houston. See her artwork online or contact her with any questions at www.debbiejones.com.

Class COVID-19 policy: There are no COVID-19 restrictions for this class. Please do not come to class if you are feeling sick, and it is always advised to wear a mask if you are comfortable doing so.

Class cancellation policy: Class cancellations 7 days or less prior to first day of class will receive no refund. 8-13 days before beginning of class, students will receive an 80% refund. 14 days or more before beginning of class: Full refund.