Book an OPEN STUDIO Appointment

Book Your Open Studio Appointment

  • Drop-In Fee: $40 (Limit 5 people per session, 1 per large table)

  • Materials Fee: Charged per session

    • Indigo Vat Refresh for existing vats: $10 (Freshen existing vats or make your own. Bringing a pre-reduced Indigo kit is recommended if a vat isn't available.)

  • Propane Use for Dyeing and Eco-printing: $8/session

  • Dyes & Mordants: Available for purchase, pre-measured by the gram

  • Bring Your Own Materials: (string, threads, dyes, indigo, etc.)

  • Studio Equipment:

    • 1 person per 4’ x 8’ table

    • Use dye pots, dye equipment, Shibori supplies, and sewing machines

    • Clean and return equipment at the end of your session

This is independent studio time. You are responsible for mixing your own dyes and cleaning up afterward. I will be available for questions but not teaching. Future attendance depends on cleanup.

Payment Options: Pay online or reserve your space and pay at the studio.
Hours:

  • 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  • 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM

 

MATERIALS + EQUIPMENT

The following materials are available during Open Studio:  

 Dye: Induction burners, propane burners, and dye pots are available for your use. Fiber-reactive dyes, dye chemicals, and mordants for both natural and synthetic dyes are available for purchase. If I have an indigo vat, you may use it; however, you may need to purchase additional materials to refresh it or even to make a new vat. If you are ECO printing, I have iron and gallnut available for purchase, propane for steaming will be an additional $10 fee ( please call ahead if planning to use a propane stove to see if there is propane available) bundle poles available

 Sewing: 3 home sewing machines (1 Singer Heavy Duty, 1 Older Singer, and a Juki lightweight, 2 sergers; 1 Baby Lok and 1 Bernina, cutting and sewing tables, sewing thread, general-use and scrap fabric, irons, ironing boards, pattern-making tools and rulers.

 Single user Equipment: Yardage table, Cricut machine, Silhouette machine, Heat Press, Stove Top Steamer, Washing machine

 Please pre-reserve single-use equipment

 Not included in Open Studio:

 Specialty and class-specific materials are not included in Open Studio access unless a student is currently registered in that course and I have extra materials. not limited to indigo, natural dyes, marbling size and paint, mordants, auxiliaries, yarns, roving, book arts papers, leather hides and leather hardware, block printing rubber, and embroidery thread. If you have a question about available materials, email suzanne@ayafiberstudio.com

Please let me know in advance if you are dyeing in the indigo vat. Since a 3-gallon vat will dye only about 2.2 Lb of fabric, please be mindful of other people when bringing multiple items to dye.

 Materials for sale: subject to inventory

  • Indigo Kits to make your vat; bring a bucket with a tight-fitting lid

  • Sashiko needles and thread

  • premixed Katazome Paste

  • Shibori and Surface Design DVDs ( you can watch in-studio)

  • Mercerized cotton fabrics

  • Silk habotai

  • Linen ( Black/ white)

  • Silk Noil

  • Viscose Jersey

  • Scarves

You are responsible for ALL Clean-up and pot washing/ table cleaning etc….


Cutting Table and fabrics

Sewing Machines, Sergers at sewing table