March arrived this morning warm and cloudy with a chance of rain coming later in the day. I have been stitching along with K3n.clothtales and this is week 9: wonky 9 patch applique.
Week 8 was Pojagi aka Bojagi style, prompt was Both Sides now. In traditional Pojagi the piece is the same on both sides. This one was a bit of a struggle for me and a few others because we couldn't get the double stitched seams on the same side.
Week 7 was a stitched heart, I can't recall the prompt word but the heart turned out lovely.
Some time this week I will start the Woven Wreaths March block of the Kathy Schmitz SAL, I watched the video this morning while drinking a cup of coffee but my eyes were not ready to stitch.
I have been doing some tea dyeing using spent teabags and tea balls from the cups of tea I drink during the day.
I drop the spent teabags into a jar with some hot water and add scraps of fabric. The results have been quite pleasing. The top of the photo is before I dropped into the jar and the bottom piece are after.
I placed the fabrics into the jar dry, the next time I went the cloth and tied off in two places. I love the results.
I haven't taken a photo of the piece dry yet but I do love the look of the piece. Last night I decided to try red hibiscus tea.
This time I used 2 fresh hibiscus teabags and pulled out some vintage floss from 1973, a white and an ecru and a piece of old white cotton muslin about 20 years old. I wet everything, tied the fabric in 2 places and bundled the floss.
I will leave it until Saturday or Sunday. This is a small jar, just right for small scraps for slow stitching and other projects. I don't use any mordant and the color holds well.
I want to try Solar Jar dyeing in a few weeks.
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