Bundles of joy

After dyeing the fabric, I chose coordinating fleece from my stash. I laid all the fibre out and made up colourful packages that I can open up and begin the felting process with. One package contains the ingredients for up to three scarves.

Excited!

immersed in colour

I've begun dyeing and felting some more scarves. It's exciting how it's all coming together. For this batch I used Procion mx, a fibre-reactive immersion dye. I dyed a couple others using Osage Orange and Cutch - two lovely natural dyes I picked up from Maiwa. I'll be posting more process shots as I go.

undersea rosegarden

A nuno-felted scarf I recently created using a cochineal-dyed canvas.

Lake Akan, Hokkaido

Little green felty balls in fishbowls pretending to be a species of filamentous green algae, also known as marimo in Hokkaido. Random.

Wee sprout

That autumn
where it was said
"For seventy-five years nothing will grow"
New buds sprouted
In the green that came back to life
Among the charred ruins

A photo I took of an old photo a couple of Julys ago. The idea of renewal and re-growth (in the face of what can sometimes feel like charred ruins) sparks motivation.

Framing

I've decided I'm going to start drawing attention to random photos I've taken (both for your pleasure and my inspiration) by sporadically plunking them here and writing a little about what they bring to mind.

This one I called "Rust to frame the sky" back in 2008 when I took it on a day out in Hachiman (north of Sapporo). When I glimpsed at this recently I started thinking about perception and how we often think we see it all, when really our views are encased and delineated, yet evolving. Sometimes some of the rusty bits fall away and we get a better view; other times obstructions get in the way.

At this angle, there's a little poky bit that sticks up and looks like a tiny human on the edge of the world.

Nuno Felting happening.

Here are a couple of the scarves I've been working on. More to come.