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Dyeing with Kitchen Scraps
About the Class
Discover how to transform everyday kitchen scraps—like onion skins, avocado pits, beet peels, and used coffee grounds—into eco-friendly dyes in this hands-on workshop. You’ll learn a simple natural dyeing process, boiling food scraps to create colorful dye baths, then soaking fabric to produce a variety of hues. Along the way, we’ll explore sustainable ways to repurpose food waste into beautiful, one-of-a-kind textiles. Participants will leave with unique hand-dyed fabric samples, practical skills, and fresh inspiration to keep experimenting at home.
Fabric for samples will be supplied; you’re also welcome to bring one new or used t-shirt (100% cotton) to dye as well.
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About your Instructor
Jill Valavanis
Jill Valavanis is the Visual Arts Director at the Sonoma Community Center and a teaching artist working primarily with fiber. She completed her graduate work at California State University, Long Beach where she earned a Master of Fine Arts in Integrated Three-Dimensional Media, utilizing skills developed in working with fiber, metal, and wood. Currently she is exploring free motion machine embroidery and relief printing on fabric.
Website www.jillvalavanis.com
Instagram @jillvalavanis
zero waste week 2025
For Fall 2025, we have partnered with Zero Waste Sonoma to bring you Zero Waste month and an October packed with free/by donation events and workshops. Zero Waste Week is a grass-roots approach to raise awareness about the environmental impacts of waste and ways to live a more zero waste lifestyle. Throughout the week, groups around the North Bay Area demonstrate how they are part of the solution through public education events and activities that focus on reducing, reusing, recycling, repurposing and composting.
Schedule
Saturday, October 11, 2025
3:00 – 5:30 PM
This Session
October 11, 2025 @ 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Ages
Adults & Teens 13+
This class is made possible by Zero Waste Sonoma
Class FAQ
We ask that you notify us at least 10 days in advance of a class if you need to cancel your registration. You may cancel by phone or email and we will gladly offer you a refund or credit toward a future class. If you cancel with less than 10 days’ notice, we will not be able to provide refunds, due to our contractual obligations and material purchases for each class.
Sometimes, the Sonoma Community Center has to cancel a class due to low enrollment or unforeseen circumstances, such as a natural disaster or health emergency. If this happens and we do not offer a reschedule date, you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee (minus the payment processing and services fee), or credit towards a future class. If we are able to offer a reschedule date but you are unable to make the new date, we will gladly offer credit towards a future class.
All credits must be used within 1 year.
You can view our full class policies and guidelines here.
The Sonoma Community Center is committed to creating an accessible learning environment. If you require any special considerations(medical, physical, learning) please share them with Sean Baskin, Program Associate, by emailing him at [email protected] so that he can forward them to the relevant Program Director and Instructor.
Late additions to any program, class, or workshop that has already begun will be allowed on a per-case basis depending upon the Program Director & instructors approval. Late additions will have to pay the full registration cost of the class, along with any materials fees, and will not be prorated for the time missed. You may reach out to the program directors directly, or the Program Associate Sean Baskin at [email protected] to request a late addition.
We are always looking for new instructors. You can fill out the form directly here.
