Embroidery Hand Stitching

      I love fabric dyeing! I was looking at the fabric I have for sale on my ebay shop and the fabric that flew off the shelf and knew I had to replace....woohoo!! Which colours was the question, as I'm walking my dog through the wildflower meadow in my local park!  Ah yes meadow colours! Buff no brainer!   So here we go kitchen and diner transformation...ta da....chemistry lab! No really everything has to get covered by a cover, as the dyes get everywhere!     My complicated and expensive tools (!) Although the metal measuring spoons and the thermometer are essential and a brilliant buy as they make ME more accurate in my measurements!    I use 100% cotton calico PDF ready to dye fabric.  The fabric is steeping in warm water to open the fibres to take the dye.   Keeping an eye on the temperature of the water, it should be around 110 degrees to add to the powder dye.    Yes...

Other things that get made as experiments! My ideal work life would be to teach part time and fibre make for the rest of the time.  I'm probably the same as most people who make things it would be the dream to make a living from those makes! Well it happens for some so why not for you or me?   So while we wait....what do you do to get through the reflective non productive times? Me......I love just making fabric.  I just make a piece for no use or reason.   This little number has a rectangular pottery vase/plant pot inside it, not in this foto tho!  It sits on my en suite bathroom window ledge.  I loved every stage of creating it just for the love of creating!       The base fabric is unbleached RTD calico.  I wet the fabric and added silk paints in semi random blobs. I then hand stitched straight stitches linearly in various yellow colour threads, thin/thick/yarn across the whole piece. The next step was to ...