The Joys of Rusted Fabric

with Beth Wheeler

Dip it, wrap it, spray it, slosh it, tie it, scrunch it—any way you look at it, rust dyeing is fun fun fun! Join Beth Wheeler as she walks you through her exclusive techniques to treat natural and synthetic fabrics with rust, using materials you probably already have at home. Imagine painting or stenciling with rust, overdyeing commercially printed fabric, printing words or photos on rusted fabrics, then stitching and using them in wonderfully creative art quilts. The class is available as a pdf file so you can download it to your hard drive and work through the exercises at your leisure.

Supply List

• yard white cotton

• 1 yard muslin

• Fat quarter of white-on-cream print

• Steel wool pads (not the kind with soap)

• Salt

• Vinegar

• Several heavy plastic garbage bags

• String

• Masking tape

• Things that rust (we'll cover this in class 1)