August 2018
Sadly, I have absolutely nothing to show for August - real life has taken over. I have been making plans though and have signed the paperwork to drop my days at work from November and am hoping to spend one day a week making and using my plant dyes. I have ordered some silk scarves online - which took forever to arrive, so I need to have a standing order set up for those each month so I never run out. I need to prep this fabric ready for colouring - and I now have some alum ready to do so. I also have a set of digital scales - received for my birthday from my sister - as the quantities I need of the mordants are so small that normal kitchen scales just wouldn't be precise enough. I'm actually going on holiday in a fortnight for four weeks, so have taken the decision that other things need to take priority before I go - shopping, packing, planning, etc - which means that plant dyes unfortunately have to take a back seat until mid October at the very ea...