Imbolc blessings, and some Wild Stitching

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