Finally, I'm set up to do some natural dyeing .... its a wonderfully slow process
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Logwood, Persian berries and onion skins ... |
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Solar dying with avocado skins ... might be ready in July |
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I'm learning how strong the Logwood dye is even after several days |
I'm also doing more slow stitching, inspired by Hazel http://justtotheleftofthemoon.blogspot.fr from Institches Creative Textile Courses http://www.institchestextilecourses.co.uk
... this is an old, rust spotted chair cover (provence unknown) and, with some hemp thread that has proved useless for anything else, I'm learning some new embroidery stitches from several great websites including http://www.embroidery.rocksea.org/stitch/
and relearning some old favourites ... only one stitch a day mind, and only one length of thread.
Finally, as I'm at home in France a photo of the new dog kennels and the lime and hemp bricks that will soon be the walls.
Oh, and by the way last week the wonderful Reuben Woolly published one of my poems on I am not a Silent Poet.
Here's the link https://iamnotasilentpoet.wordpress.com/?s=hammick ... there are lots of other great poems there, so do visit the website and just in case the above link fails here's my poem.
Westminster, March 2017
The people who won't be going home today
are people like you and people like me.
This morning they checked their emails,
read another chapter of their book,
bought a coffee to go and, wrapped against
only the March wind, chose the pavement.
The people who ran towards the blood
are people like you and people like me.
This afternoon they took off their coats
to pillow an injured man's head,
blew their breath into a dying women,
put their palms across pulsing wounds.
All these people walked from the south
or the north, they were willing to cross over
and look east and west towards the other side,
the side with plenty of places for more bridges
if people like you and I make the space.
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