Imbolc blessings to all my friends.
Here is a solar dyed silk piece I started a few weeks ago, as part of a Wild Stitch weekly workshop during January, at The Nest just up the road from us.
Natural dyeing , placing materials on the silk
Rolling up the silk and tieing it tightly.
Then stuffing it into the Mordant jar (rusty iron in water) and placing the jar on a sunny window sill
I used the S facing lower kitchen window sill.
And now unravelled and dried out.
I think I either left the silk in the Mordant too long, or it was a bit too much sunshine, as there *should* be more colour differentiation.
However, progress not perfection is the object of this course, it was a very meditative, natural materials oriented four weeks, with lots of "let your fingers do the stitching" and tea and cake and laughter.
I felt very relaxed after two hours each week there, with women who became friend
Thank you Anna for the lovely safe space you created, for us to Wild Stitch
