Tuesday May 6, 2025, 10 am – 4 pm
Nicole Frost
Enhance your knowledge of fabric and yarn dyeing with expert colorist and dyer Nicole Frost. Gain a deep understanding of color theory. Create your own reference library of dye color recipes using just primaries. Learn how to reverse engineer any dye project to get the exact hue, shade, and tint each and every time. This one-day, hands-on color theory intensive is the first in a series of four workshops that Nicole is teaching at Textile Center and is the pre-requisite for the subsequent three workshops in the series: Watercolor Effects, Speckle and Resist Effects, and Ice Dyeing on Yarn and Fabric. All levels welcome!
Materials Fee: $50, payable to the instructor at the start of the workshop, includes a digital copy of the dye cards, 50 floss bobbins and 3 gram samples of everything made in class plus one full size solid shade in a color of their choice.
Register for two or more workshops with Nicole Frost this May and receive 10% off your registration! Use code frost10 at checkout.
Instructor Bio:
Nicole Frost (she/her) created Frost Yarn in her Father’s studio kitchen in 2008 with fisherman’s wool and food coloring. She was out of work in a recession and had learned to knit while she finished a degree to “wait out the joblessness.” Little did she know this was going to be her job and passion for the next 15 years! Nicole had a vision of vivid colors, ethereal cloudlike nebulas, crystals, opals and iridescent rainbows for her projects. But no such yarn existed. When she set out to create these colors, she was completely oblivious to the thousands of hours of research and development she was embarking on.
Nicole dyed yarn like a woman shipwrecked. She spent time knitting or spinning in her college classes during lectures, reading books on the history of sheep breeding, writing research papers on the history of knitting, spinning and weaving, and learning dye chemistry the hard way. Nicole’s goal for the last 15 years of teaching has been to demystify the ancient art of hand processed textiles, be it the chemistry of dyeing, the art of combining fibers on a drum carder, hand spinning or dyeing for a specific pattern. She has found a way to condense thousands of hours of research and development into short format workshops that cover all of the fundamentals with an excellent reference package that sets students up for success. Nicole believes that nobody should have to felt as many fleeces, fry as many skeins, and pollute as many kitchen appliances as she has to acquire this knowledge. Skip the frustration, leap frog the failures, and head straight to dyeing success!
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