New Life

I couldn't 'resist' trying a natural dyed shibori egg. The blueberries I used created a lovely soft grey. I also heated a mixture of orange peel and cinnamon for another egg, which yielded beige and smelled delicious. And what else would I be stitching on Easter, but this piece? So many seed stitches rising out of the ground - the return of life. Now I have the somewhat tricky stitching below the wave of silk gauze, to solidify the ground - the getting to solid ground part.

I also made a list this morning of reoccurring symbols in my work and came up with over 50, although it's not comprehensive. Just thinking about my visual vocabulary.

Fruits of Labour

I've used blueberries and raspberries to over dye one of the arbutus bark silk pieces and one of the onion skin dyed pieces and I have some ivy and tumeric overdyeing the oak leaf, oak seed and seed pod silk pieces brewing right now... I like how little rinsing is required afterwards with natural dyes.