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    DYEING CLASS: Indigo Dye

    Explore the magic of indigo dyeing with fiber artist Melissa Galbraith of MCreativeJ. Learn how to fold and bind fabric to create patterns and designs with indigo dye. You’ll love seeing the dye change colors, and your designs come to life! Each attendee will receive four cotton tea towels to create their own patterns and are also encouraged to bring additional materials to dye. This class can get messy, so please wear clothing you don’t mind getting a little dye on.

    Ages 12 & +

    This class will take place at Monster. Our address is 1716 NW Market Street, Seattle, WA 98107. It's at the intersection of 17th and NW Market Street - kitty corner from Mighty-O Donuts.

    Please arrive at least 15 minutes before class begins.

    If you cannot attend class for any reason, we will offer an exchange to another class currently on our schedule up to 48 hours before the class. After that time, no refunds or exchanges are issued out of respect for our teachers who purchase and prepare supplies based on the number of attendees.

    Our current Covid protocol is that anyone attending an event can email us at Info@monstermonster.shop to let us know they prefer that people wear masks up to 72 hours before the event begins. Your request is anonymous to all the other participants.

    Attendees will receive an email before the class to let them know If we will be requiring masks.

    About the Instructor

    Melissa Galbraith is the fiber artist behind MCreativeJ. She was born and raised in the desert of Washington state, where her mother instilled a love of making things by hand at an early age. Drawing on her love of nature, Melissa creates whimsical and modern embroidery patterns and kits. She loves sharing how anyone can embroider with her embroidery kits, patterns, and virtual workshops.

    Melissa was reintroduced to hand embroidery after finding her desk job monotonous and needing a creative outlet. She loves that embroidery allows her to play with texture and color and is also a portable craft. Along the way, many crafty minded makers also wanted to learn how to embroider too but were daunted by where to start. So Melissa began to share her embroidery knowledge.

    Melissa's embroidery kits and patterns make it easy to learn a new craft for makers of all skill levels. She loves seeing makers fall in love with the needle arts and seeing that magical ah-ha moment of learning something new.

    Customer Reviews

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    Jtabooli
    have fun dyeing!

    The instructor, Melissa, is a great teacher, with a wealth of knowledge. We learned so many ways of fabric folding, clamping, twisting among other techniques, to produce such cool and unexpected designs. It was fun to see others' projects--all were beautiful and unique.

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    Jolene McKiernan
    Great class!

    I loved this class. I learned a lot of great techniques and it was fun to see what others created. I can't wait to do it on my own at home.

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    Ari Winter
    So much fun!

    This was my first class at Monster, and I'll definitely go again. Indigo dyeing was a fun date activity, and a wonderful way to learn something new!

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    LaVonne Harrington

    I thought the teacher was fabulous! I really wish I'd gone home with a handout of all the information she shared. The class was really too fast paced to be taking good notes.

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    Margaret Dolane

    DYEING CLASS: Indigo Dye