Back to life in the studio

Last post was on the 28 December 2012....Bunting for Amanda and Paul's wedding. I am going to view the photos on Monday and will plaster as many as I think tolerable all over my blog after that.  Feels like an eon ago but I have just been having a ball on holiday with the boys (and without them, when they went off with their cousins for a week and I was left all alone!)
AND that's when the seeds were planted....ripped the studio apart during the holidays and thought I might blog about it's revival but discovered that I hadn't the will after carting building materials up and down to make amends.

It looks the business now though and now I am up for a few more workshops.

Sunday 24 February

Sunday 10 March

Sunday 17 march

Sunday 31st March

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Bunting

You can never have enough...especially naturally dyed!

Christmas Eve

Well it has been said that women are great multi-taskers but I have never really found that myself.
However I would say that cooking and dyeing are almost one and the same.

Mum's family ham recipe and dyeing with red cabbage.
Careful when it comes to serving, Jude!

Seasons Greetings to one and all

Now Seven Days

I am still happily dyeing and producing...Christmas really is fitting around the wedding.

I have pre-mordanted this length of humble calico with soy milk and it's been stuck in a oniony/eucalyptus dye bath which was already a couple of weeks old, removed the science experiment from the top before immersion.
Used my favourite pieces of rusty tin as the mordant.
During the dyeing process, I went out to run some errands and completely forget about the calico.
When I returned the pot had dried up....


This will definitely make for a very interesting piece of cloth

A moment at 11 days

Busy in Belgrave getting flowers ordered and thankyous bought and then...a moment, just a moment.
One of the wedding waistcoats hanging in the window of the sewing studio

12 Days to go

Amanda and Paul's wedding is more my focus this Christmas and with my new birthday present iPad, I am attempting to document the run up to Christmas through my obsession with creating the best Naturally Dyed wedding in the world!

So, with correct apps downloaded and armed with photos on this beautiful new tool, here I go!

Featured are the calico backings from the little Lily and Arwen's dresses.
The technique is hapa-zome, taught to me by India Flint. This is the first time I have used it in my own work since the workshop and the results are scintillating.

The dresses are off to meet the girls and gain approval or/and await the tweaks which is every woman's perogative.

...and so it begins

As the date is 6th December, is seems appropriate that I am starting to post about Paul and Amanda's wedding which will be on 6th January!
Preparations, measurings, fittings, discussions, brain-stormings, not to mention coffees have been have been taking place for many months but now is 'the business end' of the project. A time to pull it all together, consolidate and relish the fruits of our labours. Amanda's 'team' assembled last Thursday for a walk through and I must SEW! Sew, like I've never sewn before!

I visited ZiguZagu and bought some delicious vintage kimono silk. A really big roll, tied up with string allowing beautiful purplish leaf prints to caress it's surface, thanks to a big bar of iron.

The Wedding Dress Angel