Dreaming in Blue

I awoke this morning with an image floating in my mind from a dream of what to try next with indigo and here it is after the dipping. I will be working further with this once it's dry. And I got a vat that I'd used to dye with blue glue gel resist up and running again, so I dipped a few more:

Words, patterning or any drawing is now possible - although the vat does exhaust quickly so I will continue trying other resist methods as well - but I am able to get it back to a useable state.

And another experiment - masking tape! The patterns all showed up but it works best when the tape is on both sides, as it was with the bottom piece.

I will keep wondering along...

Home is Where the Heart is

Some of us in Contemporary Woven Boro are making hearts to hang outside in February - scraps of colour to beckon spring. Mine is a soft flowering heart with roots - like a prayer flag for growth. And this is all made from used clothing or garage sale scraps. I dreamed of making a weaving that had these half circles as part of the design. I'm not sure it's quite how I want it, but this is where it's at so far.

I am so enjoying myself and have a deepening sense of home.

The Invisable Becoming Visable

My dreams are sometimes easily translatable to fabric and stitch. This morning I woke with a dream of a doorway with a second black square entrance beyond it. I wanted to bring that further to light, so I discharged black cotton, but while I was waiting for the appearance of the colour change, I realized that black velvet felt like a better match, so I embossed velvet with a diamond shape and I love how it is both there and not there - you could miss it if you didn't look closely and from a certain direction. Anything or nothing could be hiding in the dark. I illuminated this with extra light so that it's visible here: Each time the needle goes down it brings up more light.

Women's Ways

'Women's Ways' is complete, now - my dream cloth come to life. It is an honouring of the feminine - both archetypal and personal. It speaks to deep truth - that inner knowing at the bottom of the well.