I'm currently working on a project for my textiles degree where I need to dye small amounts of fabric and roving with natural dyes. I have tried dyeing with plant material before with limited success, and it was the right time to give it another go! Yet more research on the internet means that I know more now than I did, and it seems to me that there is no one right way. This suits me just fine. I'm not great at following instructions, ... Read the Post...
September Thoughts: Summer, Christmas, and Shiny Shoes
September can feel like an in between kind of month. In early September, it's usually like summer still. The new school term often seems to coincide with a heat wave, which is especially annoying if the weather during the summer holidays wasn't very good! But once the schools are back, Christmas things start appearing in the shops. We can start to feel that we ought to be thinking about Christmas, even if we don't really want to because the days ... Read the Post...
Lake Skadar Colour Schemes
At the end of July, we went on holiday to Montenegro. To be completely honest now, when I agreed to it, I didn't actually know where Montenegro was. I think I might got it mixed up with San Merino. The extent of my geographical knowledge is limited to watching Eurovision with an atlas on my lap, and I would need a few minutes to find even countries I have visited! As well as not being entirely sure where it was, I didn't realise that ... Read the Post...
Using Limits To Our Advantage: Mixing Greens
Recently I wrote a post about limits and limitations. The world we live in tells us that we don't enough. We need more, better, newer. If there's a problem, all we need to do is buy a thing and that will make it go away. There are so many difficulties with this idea! Not least that more stuff usually causes more problems than it solves, and knowing exactly what is enough is vague, so we don't always know when to stop. Especially when not ... Read the Post...
