a little progress ..

it takes slow time to begin to see the cloth – the spaces between…

 

dandelion..

Walcot Chapel working studio week with the Bees Knees

gathering dandelions for solar dye

 

the jar was so warm to hold – alchemy…

vibrantly singing colours

a little bit of help from…

..done SO well… two beautiful part Bengal cats… Adjusting gently to living here with us after the death of our beloved friend .. Tentative strolls outside and lying in the sun today for them, finding routines, rhythms, healing..

Preparing for Walcot Chapel working studio next week, this panel has been hanging on a door frame in the bedroom between  sessions of working on it.. I had a bit of help this afternoon with a fascinated cat catching the threads, watching the needle intently, and doing a bit of wrapping! Before that look how I found him…

rosemary cloth

October last year – a solar dye experiment.. Rosemary gathered from a friend’s garden and then solar dyed. The sun wasn’t powerfully strong but it’s light was enough – a sun moving towards the shorter days, lower in the sky, precious in the Autumn

I have been stitching small studies on soft warm pale yellow cloth.. remembering, as is the nature of this aromatic plant and its mythology.