A walk

I cant believe how much less walking I am doing since stopping work at RCH
I used to walk to and from Kensington 30-40mins each way every day

Now it is just one day a fortnight and the regular walks with Spencer gone I am relatively inactive
So need to start up
So I went on a walk to the Cliff walk on eagle Rock Parade and wound my way back
I even got hot!!

Arashi Shibori workshop

I enrolled for a workshop with the Louis Joel Centre's Summer series 

I booked for this one which whenever I referred to it as a dyeing workshop I got a blank look so and to rephrase to Fabric dyeing 

I was expecting it to be indigo blue colours but was actually more like tie dyeing 

Not what I planned but still interesting and educational 

I even got a book from the library 

Botanical Inks Babs Behan 

There were 7 women in the workshop and all the stuff was provided except for plastic bottles to holed the pipes 

So our set up was a bucket each 2 pieces of white fabric and plastic pipes and rubber bands and some gloves

the wrapped fabric

We started by rolling the fabric diagonally (I did the second one horizontally) around the pipe fixing with rubber bands then lightly wetting in and twisting it around down to the end of the pipe

They could stand in the bottles in the bucket (tidier than ziplock bags)

Celia was pleased to hand me a fistful of runner bands from her collection

Then we squirted about 1Tbs of dye (premixed in tomato sauce bottles ) down the sid of the cloth then added water to cover the fabric and left it for an hour

Then we added a fixative Soda Ash solution about 4 Tbs down the pipe and swish it around

Leave for another hour hen rinse off 
Leave to soak overnight in soapy water (wool mix then hang to dry  

The red one is a bit gaudy but the blue an orange is Ok 

I will look at some alternate was to wrap so the effect is different
But enjoy the group very much

New Year's Day

With Wendy and Celia at Aireys Inlet we had a lovely repast for lunch!