blue day

It's a glorious day,   Blue skies, 20c and all in all a perfect day for the Blues.

Emptied the remains of last year's indigo cloth from the basket to try out a new recipe.
I usually use sodium hydrosulphite.   Lots of students are really not keen on the smell, I like it!   So with some Spectralite on the shelf I made up my vat with that.  Success.

Another good reason is that Spectralite is easier to obtain than hydros.

A rack full of over dyed indigo.   Love the richness of the dark blue with the 

contrast of what was white, now mid blue and zinging against the dark.

All sorts of shapes and sizes, and patterns.   A quilt in the making to

stitch in the sun.

The block printing workshop on Saturday was brilliant and such fun.

We cut potatoes, fun foam, tried various found objects, and raided the 

garden for greenery suitable for printing.

For once the camera was to hand.   I took one photograph, after which

the camera hid itself.    So here is very clever Babs working away and

producing fabulous prints.

wish I had pix of the other students work

wonderful prints all round

note to self - put camera in a safe place!

Hmm, the vat is still happy, perhaps another dip or two.

It's good to be dyeing indigo under a warm sky again,

never mind the fact that I have a blue hand due to 

a hole in one glove.  A small price to pay