two lovely days

Pfffffffft ........

Workshops are great !

( but you can get very tired )

Tonight I came back from

a wonderful eco-dyeing and felting workshop
with a bunch of very lovely ladies.

( The weather was lousy those two days and I had

a bumpy ride home through the storm and rain :

boy, what a summer at the moment ! )

The Australian felt artist Pam de Groot

was giving this workshop at Dorie's place.

For Pam this is the last stop on her European tour :

she's flying home to her family next week

after another workshop this weekend.

It was my first true encounter with eco-dyeing but I must confess :

it takes a lot of practice to make something beautiful !!!

The fun was bundling up silk and fre-felt with all sorts of plants,

letting it simmer in a dye bath pot

and unrolling it again ....

Only :

mine weren't very spectacular at all !

.....

I definately need to do a lot of reading about

plants, mordants and other stuff

and then trying again !

( Enough for now, the results I'll show later .... )