the fun

monoprinting is spontaneous,immediate and extremely hands on.your nails get dirty with the paints.

it's an ideal releif from / release of /stress. you are allowed to make mistakes with no significant loss of materials and that gives a lot of freedom.

so back again to it . last week started japanese clasess and tai-chi.in full swing now. just need to get a small silk screen to do the fabric printing.

ps. note the nice deckled edge of the paper.(´• ω •`) ♡

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this one in the we shall see dept.

because it is rather shapeless and i won't know until it's finally blocked. another exercise in we shall see.this one is silk bourette a rather pleasant wear. i bought  three 3 kg cones and it's not self  extinguishable. tried a mock rib on this one bcse i didn't want to transfer the knitting to the ribber, nor starting there and then tranferring to this machine.this machine was already set up not the other hence the act of reckless laziness.

however it still has to be dyed using alkanet  from which i have never obtained the promised lavenders and purples. alkanet according to maiwa gives beautiful colors provided the roots are previously soaked in alcohol.

we shall see the outcome. if blah i'm thinking of overdyeing with logwood with a ferrous acetate post modifyer.

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doing the penelope act

this one was unraveled and now looks promising. feeling chuffed 'with the neckline.it's a sort of tabard-lovely old fashioned word.not sure about the back neckline though and need to knit the rib wich will go on the sides.not sure whether to knit a long strip or 4 individual ones.the merit goes to the beautiful yarn bought at a shop victim of the pandemic.

the aqua will obviously disapear 

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