knitted by mum
worn to tatters by dadfelted ,chopped and rebuilt by me for mum
So this gives you an idea of how my dad wore his at-home comfortable clothes. This was actually the only before shot, of a dark brown cardie that didn't felt very well as it was washable wool......his at-home shoes matched as well! held together by bits of string.......
On the play-day i just cut up the cardies: the dark royal blue into strips and the 2 beige and 2 brown into blocks and started to piece the bits together......
and finally (with some assistance by Nikki) i arrived at:
so now i am in the process of the stitching it together. people seem to like the effect of the large tacking (just see-able as the lime green). Mum was doubtful at the start of the project whether she would like it, but now she is pleased and will use it as a throw at her new abode-in-the-mountains.
and here is the update on the eco-dyeing project where i pleated bus-sticks into the silk and buried it in compost for two weeks (actually in a plastic box on my hot dashoard that got so hot the plastic box started to melt one day....)
maybe less than two weeks for the next trial........the silk is shredded and very fragile, but the colours and textures are lovely
