Yesterday was simmering overripe bananas and starting an indigo pot to ferment
Last week was clamping a silk scarf with a dragonfly fold and dipping in pomegranate given to me by a dye buddy.
Today was checking the indigo pot for bloom & color & dipping some skeins to see how the banana sugar juice worked.
And finally “attempting” to refold the dragonflies somewhere close to the original, reclamping with detail side of wood block and giving it an indigo dip. 
It’s fun and you do have to practice acceptance of slight misslignments. But…it gives movement to the flight of color, don’t you agree?
debmcclintock 
This looks like it could be a bit tedious but a satisfying project. Just curious, are you still weaving?
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Still weaving but stuck at winding warps. Too many other problem solving opportunities in life that have dampened my weaving joy. But it is coming back. In the meantime there is always color!
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Color and it uses intrigues me more than weaving these days. You just get tired of throwing a shuttle after years of weaving.
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Love it!
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Me too! Thanks!
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Gorgeous and whimsical! Will you be bringing it to the CHT conference? I hope to see it there–
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Sure, I have a pile for comparison of the good, the bad and the ugly for the dry natural dye class I am teaching at CHT http://cht2015conference.wssaustin.org
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Very interesting. That deep copper color looks like some pictures I have seen from using eucalyptus leaves. I wonder if that was from the indigo or banana?
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Jeanette, that is the intersection of the indigo and pomegranate colors. The banana sugar juice feeds the indigo pot, no impact on color. Since I am dipping the bundle snd hanging it to dry before I undo it some color pooling occurs from gravity. Nature’s whimsey introduced into the color play,
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I love the slight non-alignment. “Perfection” is highly over-rated 😉
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA love it, misalignment or not: Wabi-sabi!
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I have lots of pomegranates in the fall and they are never very sweet so I used them for dye but my color is much paler than yours–almost like a pinky beige wash. What did you mordant with?
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I mordanted with alum sulfate. The pomegranates were given to me in Nov, they spent the winter in the freezer. I pulled them out and simmered them over a few days. Skin, seeds & pulp were simmered. I then strained the solids out and used that to dye with. Heat did seem to set the color better. I have many Texas persimmon trees so that is what I usually use for local yellow tones. But it was fun to experiment with the frozen pomegranate.
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