Sand Dollar

 I love the ocean and the peacefulness it gives. My dad made these stencils for me and I love them! Depending on how I situate them they look like sand dollars or oranges. I need to branch out and do some different colors.

Mom and I

This is my mom

 My mom came to visit for a week and a half. We convinced her to stay because of a science program my husband and I do at the school. Thank goodness because we got 2 awesome days of Indigo dyeing in.  I should post about the science program, I love the idea of art and science together but am still trying to mesh the two into a program for K-5th.


This was the beginning----->

Getting ready for the results 

Boom! Looks like barbed wire!

Stitching Shibori

Pics are from last summer..

Dish Towel

Stitching and stitching, my fingers will never be the same...Sometimes I think that its not worth the time to make so many stitches just to dye it all and have to rip the stitches out. Anyone who sews will tell you that ripping stitches out is a heart wrenching thing to do...so much time and work just to be rendered lost. My thumb joints are not ever going to be the same. I am constantly thinking please oh please let me have complete use of my hands the entire time I am living. I truly appreciate them so much.   Multiple dye sessions on a fabric always make it worthwhile to me though. Fold, stitch and fold again. Sometimes with different colors, sometimes the same. That layering look that we get as we age, something good something more beneath the surface. Pulling wet stitches though? Still the pits.