'If you make happiness your goal, then you're not going to get to it… The goal should be an interesting life."

Dorothy Rowe

Thursday 24 December 2009

The only creative thing I managed today …

was some ironing. Which is not one of my favourite activities – but this was the snow dyeing.

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This is some silk organza – lovely stuff. I had one dyebath with blue and red dyes, one with blue and yellow, and one with yellow and red.

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This is a heavier silk. The red and blue has rather a lot of white left, but the others came out well.

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This is cheesecloth – I had intended to use it with the dyed felt.

 

 

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This dyed felt. Maybe not.

 

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This is needlepoint canvas – or was until I washed it. I inherited it from my mother, but it was musty, so, knowing no better, I washed it. Not a good idea if you want needlepoint canvas, but a better one if you want a soft even weave fabric with relatively big holes. And even better if you then dye it. For some reason the blue/yellow piece is almost entirely green.

 

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These are some cotton and viscose threads I dyed as well. i always forget about threads until the last minute, so they didn’t get as long in the soda soak as perhaps they needed, so they are a bit pale.

 

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And this is a piece of calico I used the left over dyes on. For some reason it is mostly green but there are some interesting areas on it. It is darker in reality than it looks here.

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These Mondrian inspired trees from my C&G sketchbook go rather well with the calico! I scanned the prints I showed yesterday, printed them and then coloured them with water colour.

 

 

 

 

And that is it for the next few days  - for obvious reasons! Have a very happy celebration of whatever you celebrate – and I hope to be back after Boxing Day.

2 comments:

Julie said...

Some lovely results Celia. Have a very Happy Christmas.

JP said...

lovely colours - very subtle