The Cackling Witch

Brianna really likes her music teacher Celeste. She wanted to make something for her birthday so we came up with this. I dyed the silk ciffon scarf with KraftKolour's citrus colour and gave it to Brianna to put rubber bands up and down the length of it to create 'resist' areas. Once that was done, I overdyed it in Wild Raspberry to create the delicious dark fushia colour. Bri says Celeste loved it.


What else have I been up to? Well, Rae is at Halls Gap selling our wares at the annual textile event and so I have been cooking up clothes with the silver leafed eucalyptus we have in Warrandyte. When it's hot, the leaves become more silver and I seem to be able to coax more colour from them. I've put some fabric pieces in the shop today because I have SO MANY ! I didn't relize how much I put in the pots when I'm in the zone.




Also keeping me busy is the small piece I'm stitching at the moment out of the scraps from Venice I sent to TheThreadStudio. I'll post those results hopefully this week.

Shibori Painting

Hi to all. I am sorry for not posting for a long while. Of course the whole family has had a cold for a couple of weeks now. They take it in turns , not all together. Sick people are time consuming!!!! I, however, being a mother, resisted the germ because I am a superwomen.
I have been attempting to participate in an online shibori class offered by Shiborigirl. I have long admired her work and was pretty chuffed when I stumbled upon this class. Online classes I think are difficult to run well. Students need feedback to effectively learn. I consider feedback and the time it takes to give it one of the more important aspects. Otherwise, students might as well buy a book instead. Videos are also a great addition for those of us who are visual learners. Not necessary though if the person who runs the workshop has good pictures. I think Shiborigirl has done a great job, and even though I am unable to practise at the moment, I know that when I do, I wont be left feeling let down by lack of information. Check out her work!