Opening the bundles today …

 
After successfully eco printing with rhododendron flowers on rice paper last week, let’s see what happens on silk!

Luscious!

 
Some vintage silk, steamed for 1.5 hours after layering with red onion skins and the leaves of a local unknown bushy plant, and wrapped around an old trampoline spring.

This fabric has a few holes in it because of its age, but I’m sure I can do something with it!

Foraging

  
Enjoyed gathering materials for eco dyeing while Ian did some work on our house. Wild flowers, fungi and a marauding insect also make an appearance! A beautiful spring afternoon.

Eco chic

 
Eco dyed thrifted silk dress, to which I’ve added hand stitched appliqué circles using silk thread. I made the jacket from eco dyed cotton remnants; necklace made by Rosemary Harper.

New – online course

Recently I’ve been looking at developing some online courses, and have written one so far. I would like to write some more so people anywhere in the world can learn about the processes I use. If anyone is interested in previewing my first one, it’s a cloth book workshop called Hidden Treasures that I made from eco dyed fabrics (you can also see a short video here – http://youtu.be/Wa4K5CLppcM). I would love to know your thoughts – even better, please consider enrolling for the course!