nemo ignorat

Shirt tatoo

left shirt has shibori on front

and back

I'm getting along with my goal to sew my own clothes. They are both made of some organic cotton sweat shirt fabric, stitched and dyed in my new indigo vat.

When I opened the stitches I spontaneously thought of tatoos. Shibori as a shirt tatoo - I like that.

And more roses from the garden. Mme Louise Odier is about done for now. She tends to bloom a second time later. But the Veilchenblau, Raubritter, Albertine, Alexandre Girault and my dearest Paul's Himalayan Musk are in full bloom now. O I love May and June.

Raubritter

Paul's Himalayan Musk

Paul's Himalayan Musk in a different stage of blooming

Albertine

Roses are my weakness. I love the old English Roses and I stuffed too many into my little garden. Especially since a lot of them are ramblers. Never a good idea. But in May and June I simply love them.

I'm not really into flowers or flower arrangements. My roses live a life on their own, I just occasionally trim them so that they don't overtake my garden or the neighbour's. Funny thing is when I was in Japan, part of our workshop was doing Ikebana. Everything is connected in Japanese art. As is flower arrangement. I felt a bit weird but in the end it was fun. Moving out of my comfort zone ;o)

"my" Ikebana arrangement

The little tits and the sparrows are almost grown now. Only a few days ago their parents were still feeding them on my balcony but now they are all on their own here dining.

 

woven doodle

When I'm focusing on one thing only, like dyeing right now because of the dye classes I'm teaching, sooner or later I will begin to get antsy. I NEED to do something different. And so this woven doodle came into existence.

woven doodle

I have a whole collection of diffeent linen and hemp threads for weaving. All so thin, I even use them for stitching and I always wanted to tinker with them on the rigid heddle.

silk mawata spun irregularily on the spindle with linen and hemp thread

A while ago a friend gave me some weird looking synthetically dyed mawata which I spun as irregularily as I could. From the beginning I wanted to combine it with the white linen.

silk and linen

I experimented with warp density and added tiny bits of twill to the plain weave.

And some other fibres as well.

And finally the chestnuts are falling and I can begin to make laundry soap.

Today we are getting our first autumn storm. Which is good. Tomorrow, when the wind will have died down, I will collect them for laundry soap making.

sampling white

Over at Jude's we're talking white right now. Although I am always amazed and in awe by Karen Ruane's white on white embroidery, white usually is just a base for me. For dyeing, stitching some other colours on it etc. Right now, I'm sampling in white and see where it will carry me.

I found a beautiful pillow case in my stash with wonderful embroidery. Just the thing to cut up and rearrange ;o)

distortion

through the glass

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Got myself a glass of water and happened to take a real look. And I thought, an inspiration for a new cloth maybe?

Mum had her surgery yesterday. A car accident on the highway changed the schedule on monday. She is as fine as can be considering the circumstances. Thank you all for your well wishing. Now comes the hard part, waiting till the leg is healed. Which can take between 6 and 12 weeks in her age.

Doodle Sunday