It doesn't seem much

I don't seem to have much to show for my week away

 but how can you measure experience.

All that art,

all that friendship,

all that laughter.

I only get to catch up with these fellow artists once or twice a year

but it always feels like no time has elapsed.

On Monday morning we started with dyeing small batches of our fabric.

I used some on my old kimono fabric.

It took the dyes beautifully.

Monday stretched into Tuesday then Wednesday

(the plan was to get it all done Monday morning)

 and still we played with our individual dye pots.

We were supposed to make books

but my fabric seemed to crying out for the individual....

or maybe a set.

Lovely time.

I have been having a lovely time this week.

 I find it a bit  tricky in workshops.....

loving the tutors work

but finding it's much more difficult

than it looks.

So I decided to do my own thing

after we dyed all this beautiful fabric, that it.

But I had a bit of a dummy spit this morning. 

How early is too early to have a shower?

With ceiling fan going full-bore?

But then when the hair dryer started

and all this before 5.30 am....

I lost it.

Making things

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have been away at "tafta".

I have been having so much fun learning Eco-dyeing and stamping and printing....

just look at my shawl!

Time to put my feet up now.

 

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Remember

 Remember last year when I posted about this ?

Well, I have gone back to do some dyeing.

Some of these samples are mine, some aren't.

I am sorry to say that this clever tree was not mine but I love it!

I did mostly spots. We are supposed to be saving them as samples but I think I will have to make something!