moving forward

back to the old normal

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while I spent time talking to the flowers

the miniature rose is adding sunshine to a rather dull start to summer

often overlooked the hosta flowers are delicate, like fairy gowns

before the deer got in and ate them

fresh peas almost every night – until the deer torn the vines down

once again I’ve strengthened the fencing

so on to making good use of the indigo vat

several years ago I bought a large, unused, linen table cloth (52″ x 110″) at a charity shop

and had the brilliant idea to shibori stitch and dye it for a summer bedspread

well, you know what happens to some of those ideas

stitching was almost completed on 36 inches – I use extra strong upholstery thread

and then it ended up in the “to finish later” pile

last week, looking for fabric to dye

I finished the pattern, cut it off and tightly gathered up the shibori stitching

hard on the hands!

then dyed it in the super indigo vat – only 5 dips

carefully cutting/pulling out the threads took several hours

but it was worth it

not sure where this will go from here but it has given me some ideas

and look Kate, it even has a hexie!

finally Kate’s envelope from Australia arrived

with lots of beautiful “scraps” to add more hexies to the blue and white piece

thanks, Kate – maybe I’ll get some done for Scrap Happy July

better get to work…

p.s. – I should add, I only finished/dyed a 36″ x 54″ piece of the fabric so it is not the bedspread I started