Starting to crochet up small squares of dyed yarn to create a sampler
Results of dyeing with Hypericum (St John’s Wort) – a good range of colour, much stronger on wool
Finished my stitched fabric collage - bit wonky but good to see what colours go together
A welcome injection of colour – cranberries in the dye pot
Printing my woodcut
February’s daily drawings complete… a month of line drawings with flowers starting to make an appearance towards the end
Felt like the start of Spring this week… mornings are still cold and frosty, but sunshine and blue skies during the day really lifted the spirits. Quite a bit of dyeing going on in the background - should be able to show the results next week… I’m hoping some of the vibrant pink from frozen cranberries left over from Christmas will remain after rinsing. I’ve enjoyed making more rubber stamps to experiment with pattern - I’m going to try to do at least one of these each month so I have a set of patterns by the end of the year. I finished stitching onto my collage of fabric offcuts - it’s pretty rough around the edges, but I quite like the mark making of the stitches, and it’s good to start working with some of the dyed materials and see how the colours work alongside each other. I’ve also started crocheting some small swatches of the dyed yarn (remembering to label them as I go!) so that I can eventually put together a sampler. I completed my month of daily line drawings… it was interesting to see more flowers appearing by the last week of February, so that should bring more inspiration for future months.