The stars are there in the daytime even if we can't see them and the sun is still there at night.
I am up to date with my posts now and ready to frolick onwards.
in Shibori... 
Arashi Shibori has such glorious texture - but I was too eager to see what pattern I'd made to let it dry this way. Maybe next time - maybe :) 
This is the Maki Nui Shibori pictured in the top photo collage, now dyed and with stitching removed. A spotty, rather disappointing look. I have had very limited success with the stitched shibori, overall. 
These dye painting and dipping experiments are samples to see what's possible. 
The first one with Colorhue dye worked out pretty well, although the colours aren't to my liking. I repeated the process, this time using yellow Procion and when I removed the stitching, no pattern was evident. I'm not sure why - maybe the necessary longer batching time for Procion allowed the colour to seep into the crevices beneath the stitching? Maybe Procion and stitched shibori do not work well together. You can see the differences in the photo below between the plain moon, the pink mokume one, yellow Procion and the last one I used shaving cream and dye to pattern drifting clouds over.
When I was using the shaving foam, I noticed an interesting pattern of the dyes I was using on a lid and put this moon in it. I like the orange glow at the edges of these clouds.
I also experimented with creating woodgrain and a grid pattern with the lower right silk.
This one I swirled to look like a wood knot.
some stitched Shibori. As it seems with all things stitch-related, there is so much possible with this technique. This is Orinui, which is over stitched on the fold before dyeing - and I also tried Mokume, or lines of running stitch, but not very successfully, so will experiment further.
And here is an attempt at Makiage shibori overtop of some pale itajime I previously dyed. While my stitched pattern wasn't defined after dyeing, I do like the halo effect and variety of colours and ghosts of patterns. One piece of cloth can hold a whole history. I like how each layer adds complexity and depth and continues to spin a story.
With this Makiage, I unintentionally stitched one corner to the rest, but decided to leave it that way to see what would happen after I dyed it. A happy accident, in my opinion!
So - a start on stitched shibori that promises to add many more patterns, shapes and colours to my garden.