Friday, May 9, 2025, 10 am – 4 pm
Nicole Frost
Experiment with ice dyeing on fabric and yarn in this one-day intensive workshop with expert colorist and dyer Nicole Frost. Move beyond the luck of the thaw to reverse engineer the magical (and often mysterious) process of ice dyeing to create your own splitting color for any ice dye project. Explore several ice dyeing techniques: under/over ice platform, under/over ice muck, solid shade with salt, and mottled without salt for a textural color experience. Learn how to precisely measure dye and mix colors that will give you the splits you want each and every time. Due to the melt time and processing time required for Ice Dyeing (24 hours) the instructor will bring pre-dyed yarn and swatches for participants to use to create their libraries. All participants will go home with their experiments to rinse out the following day after they have cured for 24 hours. Prerequisite: Color Theory Scientist with Nicole Frost, offered on May 6, 2025 from 10 am – 4 pm.
$112 materials fee, payable to the instructor at the start of class, includes 3 yards of mercerized combed cotton fabric, 33 floss bobbins to wind samples made in class, laminated color study and technique workbook, and syringes/dye/coin holder/binder.
Register for two or more workshops with Nicole Frost this May (Color Theory Scientist, Watercolor Effects, Speckle and Resist Effects, and/or Ice Dyeing with Yarn and Fabric) 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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