Capture the Moment, April #26

Posted on April 26, 2013 by nuvofelt

This is what was waiting for me after last night’s rain.

Rain Art! Now all I need to do is capture it. That’s the start of one of my techniques!

Capture the Moment, February #19a

Posted on February 19, 2013 by nuvofelt

I
dyed
inside

Too
frozen
outside

Weekly Photo Challenge – Surprise

Posted on December 21, 2012 by nuvofelt

The wonderful thing about natural dyeing is that you never quite know what will emerge from the pot!

Full information about the challenge, and lots more entries can be found here.

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RUN! Weekly Photo Challenge (graysonqueen.wordpress.com)
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Surprise (flickrcomments.wordpress.com)
Weekly Photo Challenge: Surprise (chttp://kattermonran.com)
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Surprise, Surprise! (playamart.wordpress.com)
Surprises around the world (thirdeyemom.com)
WordPress Photo Challenge: Surprise (December Day 21) (ayearinmyshoes.wordpress.com)
SURPRISE: A GIFT FOR THE BLOGGING COMMUNITY (cardinalguzman.wordpress.com)
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Surprise (windagainstcurrent.com)
Weekly Photo Challenge: Surprise! Monkeys! (rarasaur.wordpress.com)
WPC: Surprise (shareandconnect.wordpress.com)
Weekly Photo Challenge: Surprise (betigaklaten.wordpress.com)
Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Surprise (managuagunntoday.wordpress.com)
WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: SURPRISE (mothergrogan.wordpress.com)
WPC: SURPRISE (eljaygee.wordpress.com)
Weekly Photo Challenge: Surprise (tomotherearthwithlove.wordpress.com)
Weekly Photo Challenge: Christmas Surprise Triage at Grandma’s (humbledpie.wordpress.com)
Weekly Photo Challenge Surprise – Primrose, Jester and Family Arriving Any Minute (mybeautfulthings.wordpress.com)
Winter Wonderland (rainbowbakery.wordpress.com)
Weekly Photo Challenge: Surprise (mytropicalhome.wordpress.com)
WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: SURPRISE (francineinretirement.wordpress.com)
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The Proof of the Pudding

Posted on July 30, 2012 by nuvofelt

Do you remember my sleepless night? Well I won’t hold it against you if you have forgotten, but as a result I produced these

They should have stayed bottled for longer, but we opened them on my recent course. Here are just a few of the results.

These are rose leaves that have become imprinted into the fabric,

and these are from nothing other than paper fasteners. They worked, that was the important thing, and now they can be developed further. If you would like to try some safe experiments, maybe with a child under supervision, let me know and I’ll give you the ‘recipe’ for something that will definitely work.

Oh, and do you remember the ‘Crumbs‘? Here’s the result

Weekly Photo Challenge – Purple

Posted on July 27, 2012 by nuvofelt

Goodness! Purple!

Having just returned from a few days teaching dyeing, you have no idea how appropiate this is. In fact, once the photographs are fully downloaded I will probably have enough pictures of purple for one a day for a month!

This one was taken earlier today. After dyeing we decorated the flora in an attempt to dry as much in the sun as possible. These two ‘got away’!

Full details of the challenge, and lots more entries, can be found here. Other photographs taken during the same dyeing session can be found here and here.

Crumbs!

Posted on July 24, 2012 by nuvofelt

Yes, they do look like crumbs, don’t they, but they are in fact the contents of a teabag!

Just one of the things I’m happily playing with while I’m teaching at Urchfont. I’m there for the last time, so my camera will be as hot as the dyeing water. Back soon with more pictures here and on Just Snaps.

What’s cooking?

Posted on July 15, 2012 by nuvofelt

So, what did you do at 2am this morning?

Well, I couldn’t sleep. I didn’t go to bed until after midnight, but I had a recipe going round and round in my head, and I knew that it would carry on like that unless I did something about it. All was still and quiet, so I could concentrate, and that’s what I did.

A little bit of this, a little bit of that – and quite a lot of the other, you know the sort of thing I mean. By 3.15 it was all bottled, and now we just have to wait.

Now you didn’t expect it to be edible, did you? It’s a wait and see recipe, so that’s the cooking part. It won’t be opened until my dyeing course which happens in just 10 days. It will be quite exciting to see what has happened.

That’s all I have time for now, you see the milk is just about to boil over…….

……… and I need that for my calico!

Weekly Photo Challenge – Hands

Posted on May 18, 2012 by nuvofelt

Today’s post from Just Snaps
Today’s Weekly Photo Challenge from Just Snaps
Lots more entries to the challenge, and full information too.

Tulips?

Posted on April 21, 2012 by nuvofelt

I tppk this photograph earlier today

The colours remind me of this collection of threads that I have listed on Etsy

Do you agree?

I’ve Got My Eye on You

Posted on January 29, 2012 by nuvofelt

It’s surprising what you see when you are quietly working. I was in my studio, dyeing as it happens, when I looked out through the window.

Apologies for the piece of paper that’s in the bottom right, but I needed to be quick. If you have been following my other blog you will already have seen this wood pigeon, it’s Hilda! She and Howard often visit for a drink, but this is the first time I’ve been able to actually catch one of them ‘in the act’, as it were.

I moved, very carefully and was able to get a much better view, but still through glass and with reflections. However, from this view I could see that I wasn’t the only one watching!

I watched for several minutes. Neither moved, then the cat saw me, turned and sloped off. I tried to creep outside and take a better photograph of Hilda, however, the door creaked and she was off in a flurry of wings. Howard came a while later, but I was up to my elbows in dye by that time.