Frustrating week

Everything this week seems to have gone not quite right. Firstly I have finished framed and hung on the wall , nine felt pieces.  These pieces originated from a felted jacket that did not fit too well.  They are simply framed in wood box frames. I am very pleased with them but unfortunately I can photograph them in situ , due to reflections .  Well I can but they don't look so good,   Perhaps non reflective glass is the answer , but that's quite a bid deal to change them all. Here is the best I can do.               So I have come up with a bit of a cheat.                               All individually photographed and then added here one by one.   On my screen this is a square , not…

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Stocking up 

Over the last few months I have been foraging and collecting and stocking up on materials I can use for dyeing in the future.  Whilst walking I have been picking up lichen that has been washed off the trees by the rain and now have a small collection of two varieties.  I have still to research what colours these will yield. I found some fallen down tree branches and collected some silver birch bark .  I am hoping this will give a beautiful pink colours. Both in the UK and in the Netherlands , I have found is very easy to collect alder cones especially after all the heavy rain we have been having.  These can be used as a mordant , or a dye.  Only a few months ago I don't think I really knew what these were. ! I harvested some young bracken shoots and some dock leaves , which…

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