No sewing today...I spent about 4 hours in the garden weeding and puttering.
I pried off some gum from the cherry tree. It's soaking in water now and then I will filter it.
And I made some pigments.
I have a tea plant (camellia sinensis) that I harvested some leaves from last fall and soaked in water. It was for another project that got away from me. Today I realized I had about 1/4 of a cup of very concentrated pigment.
The brown is the tea, the green rose petal and the black iron/oak gall.
I also made paint with some of the ochre/clay that I brought back from California.
This is a special one for me. In an email I sent recently to someone I wrote, “It is a truly wonderful and magical thing to be able to hold on to a memory or a connection to place through pigments….”