Posted on November 14, 2018 in color, natural dyeing, season/change | Permalink | Comments (31)
Posted on August 31, 2018 in components aka loose patches, natural dyeing, season/change, transition | Permalink | Comments (26)
Cloth Weaving with plant dyed scrap.
Dyed here. This place.
A kind of Home Base then. For the shop. And then not. Because it became a place to be for a while.
Nine. Nine dujour. I think it's a habit work keeping.
Dots. Like an excavation. This is turned reverse applique which you find in the Applique Lesson of Spirit Cloth 101. Here.
Cloth Weaving makes the the layering element(a kind of alignment) in the weaving process more apparent. When you weave with thread or yarn it is hard to notice how it is the process of appearing and disappearing that creates the structure as well as the pattern possibility, the magic. And with the cloth method, the layers can be manipulated in a different way. I like this built in layering of cloth. Being able to sense it, it lures me into playing with it. There is new form always waiting when a technique is reconsidered.
I have a bit of work to do, to put the process index back on track for Feel Free. But it will be ok. Just tweaking things and keeping it more simple and less ambitious (that disease that has to be kept in check). The Feel Free site will be back up in a month or so. As simply a methods index. A Glossary. Just to make things easier to find. I'm sorry, this stuff takes a while to settle. And again thanks for kind donations to those folks that I never seem to find by responding through Paypal. Love you all.
Posted on August 26, 2018 in 9(forever), alignment, cloth weaving, considering/reconsidering, dots and circles, Feel Free, holes, layers, natural dyeing, nine lives patch, ninepatch | Permalink | Comments (26)
Just thinking how I feel lately like there is no time for anything.
Nothing is getting done.
But in the course of a day, so many things get done. It's hard actually, to find the time to count them all.
The surroundings are doing a lot of the doing at the moment. I'm drinking it in.
This is the ninth trial. So guess I can say, yes, avocado leaves print green. On old silk, wrapped around a can and steamed for about an hour. I'm not seeing any fading or color change. I'm going to do another round. My avocado tree is now 11 feet tall. From a pit! Too big to put outside this season. It drops leaves now and then. Thank you.
Posted on May 05, 2018 in green, impressions, natural dyeing | Permalink | Comments (25)