Indigoing

More blue dabbling today with some larger stitched pieces as well as small ones. I like how there is an implied motion, here - like the bird figure is moving it's wings.

And I especially like this linen with it's varied lines:

And here is one on wool:

Small experiments that continue my learning, because that's what I love to do!

Blue Miracle

This dip was the 'star' of the day. There is just nothing like opening a carefully prepared and lovingly tended indigo bathed bundle and meeting it for the first time - love at first sight!

It's completely overcast and raining outside, but I still got in some moon watching. And why not an indigo shibori doily?

This cotton is folded and tied.

Tomorrow can't come too soon :)

Unpredictable Blues

I've been trying out a few more ideas with indigo. The ombre was part of our last class lesson and I was trying for a nice even gradation of values.

I had plans for this one that did not work out, but I will try to get what I'm after using another method.

And a cloudy moon - not quite what I was after, either!

I also dipped this leaf print the other day after not using the vats for some time and got a mixture of turquoise and green - although what's pictured here is wet and more vibrant than the actual colour. The leaf prints really darkened after dipping, too.

The unpredictability of the vats ensures my ongoing curiosity about what will happen next?

Wrapping Up

The wild lilies are blooming everywhere and Easter is over. I used coffee, tea, onion skins, plants, fruit juices, spices and silk scraps to dye eggs with this year.

Only a few blue dips to share - this one has indigo dropped on it from a squirt bottle:

And here is one I folded and tied:

I also tried other resists with indigo but it's been over a week since I've used the vats and I'm more interested in stitching right now.

Something Boro-ed, Something Blue

More eggs - it's that time of year. I got this book in the mail last week from Japan,

so I thought I'd make an egg using a few of my indigo fabrics with other snippets. I have further stitching I want to do on it, but the surface is covered - a little challenging because of the uneven shape of an egg.

And here's one of the other pieces from the vat today - not sharply defined but I can fix that another time:

Making a whole basket full of cloth eggs might be nice...

Blue Beginning

I couldn't wait any longer to use some of my indigo dyed fabrics, trims and yarns.

Photographing an egg takes more than one shot!

Speaking in Blue

Constellating

I decided to focus largely on indigo stars today and this is a close up of my favourite dip of the day: A few more:

And not all the experiments worked out - here is one I folded, stitched and tied, hoping for multiple stars shaped like the thread ones.

After dipping into indigo here is what I got:

Still a lovely pattern - and now you know the stars are there, too, but obscured by clouds :)

This last one is another stitched shibori.

Blue Muse-ing

Still horsing around with the indigo vats...

Indigo Tale

Walking on the indigo road by the light of the moon

through a forest of ferns

I came to my favourite fishing hole and pulled up a

blue blossom!

So much to discover on this indigo path...

Stars, Moons and Flowers

I backed, sandwiched, and machine quilted this table runner top I started two years ago and realize I'm out of practice! I like the back better than the front - maybe I am needing some pink to offset the recent flood of blues!

In the online Indigo class, we received our third lesson and the theme is Moons and Stars - which fits right into and builds on - some of what I have already been doing. Here is an eclipse I tried on wool:

A linen star:

And a moon on cotton sky dyed fabric: