Eco Dye

I recently unwrapped my erosion bundle after about six months of  its swinging from a branch on a fir tree in my yard. ( Actually, I was politely asked to remove it as the pink and shiny present could distract potential house buyers with its quirkiness.)  Sadly, it didn’t change much.

This week I was stopped in my tracks at a blog of   lotta helleberg and her beautiful nature prints on fabric.

I proceeded to dive into this new process(for me) – because I love dying fabric, anyway – and bought India Flint’s book,

India knows her plants and the photos of eco-dyed fabric and garments make me want to dye. So I immediately dead-headed my pansy plants and gathered various other leaves from the yard in a totally experimental effort.

Lots of bundles - first round

Onion skins wrapped with my selvage scraps

Yummy selvage strips from another project. Wish I could get this color!

pansy prints

I have so much more experimenting and reading to do.   And over-dying.

And see what Jude did this week.  I think the residual ash in her ash pot/dye pot helped matters.  Her results are gorgeous.

Threads of Meaning

Friday evening, sixteen women convened at the Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield for a workshop that guided their personal stories into telling stitches.

We examined painting by Hope Gangloff.

We wrote.  We read.  We talked.  We stitched.

what happens on the back

I  hope I shared everybody.  All the stories are important and they will continue to be told.

Turtle Soup

The rain does special things to wild creatures, like bring them out when they don’t have to hunt for water.  Look what I saw this weekend!

I am inspired by the pattern on his shell.  I was a bit giddy all day, splashing my Wellies in puddles on purpose.

I am inspired by his deliberate procession at his tortoise pace.