indigo

2 cotton scarves

                                       I am experimenting with indigo.

scarf detail

various blues possible with successive dips

binding 

When dyeing indigo in a cold rain I think about Japan.

one of a kind length

This is the fabric I showed you here
I may list it on on my etsy store in the near future.  It will be my most expensive fabric yet!
It is in my West Branch store on Saturday's 11-4.

spring runners

runner or curtain or wall hanging here

I finally got these runners listed on etsy

runner or dresser scarf or wall hanging here

things I've been working on

This is a length of linen I have loosely printed in 2 colors.
It turned out great, I will have pictures soon.

These are some shirts I am printing.
They turned out green.

These are the shirts rolled up to steam.

This is a scarf I just listed on etsy

I will also have some new printed clothes in the shop Saturday.

first flower

an oldie

my first flower this spring

but most of my world still looks like this

luckily I like bark

purple things

 some things I worked on last week

little lavender sachets that you can hang on a doorknob

purple scarves

finding pieces of dyed but not printed fabric

I also cleaned the studio a bit, which is a miracle if you know me.

windowsill and another flower

Here is another of my flowers

I started out trying a white, "bride" type flower.  It turned out really stiff and weird so I pulled it apart and painted some parts of it and reassembled it .  I had to add stamens because I love stamens.  It still seemed blah, so I tried some vintage brooches on it.  All it needed was some sparkle.  You can't tell from the photo, but the plastic pin (which makes me think of a butterfly) has rhinestones!

What is on my windowsill:  a little pumpkin from last year, one of those plants that don't need dirt, a forsythia sprig, and a piece of silk dyed with some bark off my old grape vine.  It has a nice color, but I want to see how lightfast it is so I have bound it and placed it in the sun.  I also wrote what I dyed it with on it with a sharpie.  Dye samples are really unhelpful when you don't record what you used.

But they will make nice flowers!