cochineal

is beyond awesome.  less than five minutes in the dyebath and the printed mordant has already taken lots of color.

my cochineal is of the vinage sort  (￣ω￣ ) got a whole kilo a long time ago  when husband-san had a project in the canary islands and traveled every week. after some research a producer was located and he sent me a kilo!! w /out even including a bill!! goes w/out saying i contacted him and transferred money. those were the days.

anyhow as it takes so little to get saturated color that i still have a lot. the bugs were plump when i got them , now they are like currants, but still operative.

this background will be cleaned along w the other pieces. i really have to plan the use of electricity because our bill has doubled. i rather eat than dye-mind the spelling-if i need to choose.

turning a page i started tai chi yesterday. was really looking forward to it but getting up earliish and not being able to have a leisure breakfast has always been hard on me.i need bround three hours to  do the stretching and  wight exercises eat,read the papers,now include wordle both in english and spanish, now i have to rush out of the house.it's a good thing is  just one street away.

neki desu