PRINT: Indigo Leaves

INDIGO LEAVES

History
This is what i did in my second class. I never saw Indigo plant myself but i choosed the name for the color.
If you are wondering about the “Class” part; I am attending some classes on fabric printing. So for the next few weeks you can see a bit of my experiments here . Don’t think i am keeping my yarn and needles away.. i have a cute(I think it is…) project to share soon.
Supplies: Too many things to list…
Notes:
After the introductory first class, we had to prepare a design for our second class which we can print and this is mine. The design is adapted from a Japaneese kimono. I mixed the color myself as i wanted a more ink blue than deep blue; you can see the color testing on the white fabric. I love the whole process but i hate cleaning up:-)

I printed it on a Calico bag which now follows me everywhere from library to market to knitting group.

I must say that i got a back pain preparing this design. I already wear glasses else i would have got those also But its worth all the effort, is’nt it??? I was literally jumping all over the place when i saw my first print. It is so much different to crochet and knitting where we can see the object evolve slowly in our hands…. Printing is more a “Zap” and its done… lot of time is spent on planning….process….and ofcourse after-cleaning. But when a mistake is done… you are back on the drawing board unlike a rip and knit.

Anyway next week print will be a far more simple but colorful because we will be attempting multicolor prints.

FO: PinWheel Doily

PINWHEEL DOILY

HistoryI almost forgot about this. A Lady at the knitting group i attend in Chatswood asked me if i can make her a jug cover, as i am not sure (i would have understood if she had explained to me) she got me a sample. As i had the option to choose the pattern… i choosed the pinwheel doily

Yarn: Pellicano by Coats (Given to me by the lady)
Hook: 2.25mm
Others: Beads from my stash
Gauge: mmmm…..
Size: 11”
Pattern: PinWheel Doily; it is a very popular one but now i couldnt find the link…Its there on Rav.
Notes:
i didnt string the beads before i started the doily so i had to break the yarn before 2 rows to finish and string the beads. The pattern actually says at a point to break the yarn and rejoin it at another point but i slip stitched it.
I didnt it starch it but wet blocked it.

Here is a funny incident(i thought it was funny ) that happened when i am crocheting it that i wanted to share. DH was on phone with his mates and i thought i would crochet in the balcony…and suddenly the ball of yarn rolled out of the lap and through the gap in the railings fell 5 storeys down onto the driveway that leads to the basement parking. I am there with WIP doily and the ball of yarn down on the driveway. I threw the doily down thinking that i will pickup both the yarn and the doily from the driveway, my bad luck the thread tangled with the potted plants in the apartment below us and my doily is there hanging in the air. I knocked the door of the apartment for 30 mins before an old lady opened it (i felt very guilty that i had to wake her from her afternoon nap) but by that time a gust of wind untangled the thread and my doily was on the driveway and was rescued by a neighbour. Luckly no car smashed it and it didnt unravel much.

If i make it again;
Probably i will make in a thinner thread… never crocheted with threads

Learnt: Nothing new…
Time:
Nearly 2 weeks

PRINT – Tee Transformation

My Plain Tee

After a few drops of paint and few strands of threads

Do you think some felted flowers will add a touch or is it fine plain???

Let me know what you think – leave a message.

Bushfires

For the last 48 hrs, i have been seeing various news footages from Victoria, Australia. The Menace/Damage the bushfires have done/doing is beyond ones imagination. When the map of state Victoria with the areas under the bushfire is on display, its like the whole state is burning!!!!!!!!

I don’t want to talk anything about the families who are suffering or suffered as i feel except for the people who are experiencing/experienced something like that, nobody can understand.

Whole towns are wiped out, Millions of hectares of forest is burned down, Properties destroyed, Lives lost….. It seems like an aftermath of a war than anything.
Natural Bushfires: Totally understandable, its nature taking its own way.
Accidental Bushfires: Unforgivable; when you are in a place which is under “Total Fireban” even smoking in your car is not permitted.
Deliberately Lit: Are you out of your mind ( considering the fact half the fires burning in Victoria and NSW are lit intentionally)
Deliberately Relit: Are you a Psycho???? (Just see it from a firefighters prespective, who had fought day and night in intense heat and smoke to stop it, only to be relit by a idiot????)

What is it with Pyromaniacs and Arsonists???
Do they get high when they see wall of flames???
Is it doing something against law and not being caught that gives that smirky feeling???
Or is it the satisfaction of recreating a natural disaster (you cannot easily recreate a Tsunami, a Snowstorm, a Flood, a Snow-storm, a Tornado…) that gives the dumb pleasure???

I don’t know what to say about them; heartless… unemotional… unhuman…Psychos

Note: I normally don’t post my opinions on my blog, but this time i couldn’t help.