Map

Progress on the stitched map. Another section finished today but I now realise that to continue out from here I need some different colours of fabrics. More research necessary to find what is supposed to dye blue, grey & green & see if I can give them a go. That's the trouble with natural dyeing - it is so unpredictable!

Teatime recycling

I used recycled cooking water from teatime to get these lovely golden yellows. The salad recipe called for cauliflower florets to be blanched in hot turmeric water. The colour looked so intense it seemed a shame to just tip it down the sink so, after draining off the cauliflower, I put some wool & cotton yarns in & left it for about 36 hours.

Solar dyeing

Solar dyeing threads on a sunny window cill. From the left nettle roots, nettle leaves and red onion skins. Both the nettle jars had a little alum added and are supposed to give green but seem to be the usual murky pond colour. The onion skins are giving a surprisingly nice pink at the moment.

Stitched map

I'm working on a stitched map of the walk we take each morning round the fields. I found a piece of pink fabric that I'm using as a backing fabric and the threads are mostly old ones that have been handed down to me.