More iterations of the garden map (whiat this doesn’t show is how very steep it is!)

Cranberry dye results - the colour won’t be very stable, but I liked the range of colours

Really pleased with the greens extracted from ivy, especially on the woollen blanket squares

Experiments with aluminium foil tape printing plates

Learning new skills in making cordage and weaving

A week of recording results, mapping and learning new skills. I spent my evenings collating the dyeing results from February… a lot more browns than I realised at the time! Fortunately I’ve been dyeing with cranberry and ivy this week which gives a welcome break from the earthy colours. I liked the green of the ivy on the woollen blanket squares so much that I dyed a few more, but second results were all yellow instead of green, even after adding more ivy leaves to the dye bath. I made a start on mapping the garden - first using homemade inks, and then abstracting it down to solid black shapes and outlines. This is definitely work in progess. I tried out printing with plates made from aluminium foil… not much luck with sandwiching leaves to print as the chlorophyll squidged everywhere when it went through the press, but early results with paper shapes were encouraging. Finally, it was the last of my Place Making online workshops with Alice Fox (very sad these have come to an end, they have been very inspiring) - this week we learnt how to make cordage. I can see this could become a bit addictive, and there are so many possibilities for working with natural materials as well as fabric and paper. The following day I had my first online weaving lesson with Bristol Folk House - I really enjoyed setting up my loom, and I’m looking forward to learning some new skills that I can hopefully combine with the cordage at some point.