Every journey begins with one step. But usually there are already several steps behind you, some places you come from when you decide to begin your wanderings.
I'm already knee deep in hand sewing. Equipped with a great dislike of machines, I used to hand sew shirts and skirts and even trousers many years ago during my frugal time at university. After some time without much time for texile crafts, I returned to my fibery interests one day in december about a decade ago when I ordered a handspindle and some fibre. I began spinning, dyeing, knitting, weaving the usual stuff and then, I some years ago, I returned to sewing.
I feel content when I stitch.
Several years ago, I dived heads on into natural dyeing and sometime later I realized I'm a natural dyer with a day job. And then I realized, I love dyeing fabrics. So my love for fabrics, for sewing and for natural dyeing intertwined.
I am far from being a master or something like this. I am learning, wandering among fabrics and experimenting with possibilities. And since I seldom have the opportunity to travel, I enjoy online workshops and online classes.
Last weekend, I enrolled in several online classes over at Jude's. Since my other blog is (mostly) German and a hotchpotch of all possible fibre crafts, I wanted to start something new, English only and only about my dyeing and my sewing.Let's see how this works out. As I said, I'm experimenting here.
And since no blog post is complete without pictures, here are some of past and present stitchings:
into the woods, neo tribal art cuff
into the woods 2 - neo tribal art cuff with encouched horse hair
buttoned up - the desert series
A coat I am working on now for several years. It was finished at one point but I didn't like to wear it. During the last two weeks I added some changes it feels better now. Come summer I will see how it actually wears.
Well, this is a small view into my past endevours. I'm working on some new things, I will see what path they will take.
I haven't done much modern boro like weaving and stitching yet. Up until now, I just dived into the online classes and immerged into the texts, videos and whisperings. Just listeining was inspiring and I have some ideas for larger cloths. Maybe another jacket, something different than the above. And then there are some old beginnings I found yesterday while cleaning the bedroom. Really old beginnings. Maybe I will rip them or incorporate them into something new. I don't know yet.
As I said, it's the first step of a journey.