and last, but not least
will take a few more dips to achieve the desired depth.
i want to put my face in the vat.
i want to GET INTO the vat.
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maybe you could stomp with you feet!
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i’m feeling that ANYTHING is possible at this point.
it’s really a thrill.LikeLike
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great. right?
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Looks like you ARE getting into the vat…it is creeping in through your fingers and getting all the way to your heart.
Indigo dyeing is so exciting isnt it? I did my first dyeing this summer with indigo and I was well and truly bitten!!!! It makes me love the indigo colour even more after dyeing my own.
Enjoying your delight Grace.
Jacky xoxLikeLike
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well…it’s really
magic.
i am a little uhhhh, hmmmm, spaced out by it.LikeLike
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it’s quite amazing
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It is like magic….how everything changes once the oxygen gets to it…right before our eyes!
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jumblie joy!
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I always think of the Smurfs when I am sitting next to the vat. Last summer one of my gloves sprung a leak. It was extremely hot, so I didn’t think anything of the damp feeling in my glove. I had a blue hand and forearm for over a month. I kept trying to think of a way to create tattoo ink with the indigo or a stencil so I could decorate my body for the summer. Have fun with the magical elixir.
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Magic BLUE hand, beautiful BLUE cloths, so many hues, so much blue, the sky has fallen in a little home in Polvadera. You managed to dye a lot of cloth…Good for you and happy that it turned out so well for you because I know you wanted this. Can just see you creating a maypole in your backyard, attaching all of the strips of Indigo to the pole then dancing, weaving in and out with your indigo cloths and your indigo hands, echoing the sky…
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There’s an urge to put everything in the dye pot, isn’t there? 🙂
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I so much know the feeling!
Grace sorry it took me so much time to find you here on typepad. I was so stubborn to go back to blogspot again and again.
Here to never forget again (thank you so much for your comments on feathersfromheaven)LikeLike
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oh how I love your blues!! and the spirit tree, how beautiful is that!!? I have been busy (in the office) and with our African visitor and started dyeing with black beans, oh so much going on…good things, but not a lot of visiting you Grace and so I am late with my comments….it is so lovely to see your house and read what you’re up to, hmm seems like the Wind is important over there, here we have to deal with Water, too much too little, and Mud; it is what it is. The first blossoms here are the willow catkins, a vibrant lime green and full of nectar for the bumblebees who have decided to move in to one of the birdhouses on my studio, how wonderful is that!! They are huge and make a lot of noise as do all the birds in and around the garden, I LOVE spring.
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You will begin to look like one of my forefathers covered in blue woad!
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talk about immediate gratification…..
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now for the green head
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aren’t tattoos routinely done with indigo???, i think so.
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Marti…you imagine such wonderful things for me…
actually, it was just a few pieces. there’s more in
there today.LikeLike
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yes. i’m looking at the dogs out of the corner of my
eye……..have you ever tried a chicken feather???LikeLike
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Yvette!!!!!!!!!!!! i am just HAPPY that you are here
today. i love the feathersfromheaven a lot. we will
be going back and forth a lot i think.
love to you……….LikeLike
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yes…the river willow has those catkins…and when
the globe willow was living here it wore a robe of
bees……
Me too, SPRINGLikeLike
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well…i DID get some woad seeds….they will go into
the earth here soon.LikeLike
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No, I haven’t. I’d think the barred rocks are so dark that not much would pick up? Might have to get a feather from the neighbor-they have a Buff (rather blonde in color). Next time I see one maybe I’ll try. Now I have this magnolia leaf that has skeletonized…I’m going to toss that in soon. 🙂
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Beautiful bues…Does look inviting….can’t say I’d want a blue face though!
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all those shades of indigo look so very yummy!!! am reading a great book, “Colour: travels through the Paintbox” by Victoria Finlay, she spent several years traveling the world discovering the history of colour, just finished her chapter on the colour Indigo, such fascinating stuff!
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Hi grace those blues have got me pulling out my indigos and blacks. When I visit you I always come away enriched with words or images. Love this space.
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Hi Grace. I was awarded the
Liebster Blog Award , and now I offer it on to you, as one my favourite inspirational artists
that I follow. Check my post out at
http://stitchingalways.blogspot.com
Regards PhillipaLikeLike
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well…i was excited.
i am really looking forward to it warming up enough
outside to see what happens when i put some of these
in with other things outside….i’d like to get
some with a more greenish tingeLikeLike
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colour
this has been really great….and for me, is the way
to learnLikeLike
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i’m coming over to see what you are doing!
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Oh wow, Grace! I am such a chicken – the whole thing of dyeing intrigues me and I love the outcome so I don’t know why I keep hesitating. I LOVE indigo and it must be so tempting to just throw everything in – poor old dogs, that really made me laugh, thank you.
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Sorry, forgot to ask – any news on Mary Oliver?
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Phillipa, Thank You so much for this, but i haven’t yet
learned how to add things to the sidebar OR to even
link. so i’m not ready. But i DO very much appreciate
your thoughtfulness…
THANK YOU and thank you for coming byLikeLike
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re Mary O, no, not since word was that she was doing well
and full recovery is expected. i still don’t really know
what IT is. but it all sounds good.
yes…i was really nervous about the Indigo. anything
that takes measuring does that for me. but i really
is great…EASY….
i think if you want to attain a repeatedly reliable
color it would be more complicated, but i’m happy with
whatever comes out.
i dyed more today and the vat was warmer and the color
was more intense. i think on Tues i’ll add more of
everything and see if i can get really dark.
then, just back off a while. i love the indigo but
can only use so much, in small bits with how i work.
but yes..the temptation is to just keep going and going.
it would be an improvement for the dogs i think. something
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Lovely blue clothes Grace. I found your blog via Jude’s. I’ll be taking the next class, and you? The area around your house looks a lot like where I live. I’m living in the Chama River Valley, are we close?
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Margo!!!!!…closer than anyone else, so i think that’s
CLOSE!!!!
NEW MEXICO….GREAT!
and SO BEAUTIFUL up where you are….this is great!!!
i am down just a bit north of Socorro…straight down
I 25.
and YES…am doing the boro class. i will take everything
she offers into eternity. it’s been a wonderful 2 years
learning with her.
oh…this is so good……..
what kind of stitching do you do already??????
THANK YOU for coming by here….LikeLike
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🙂
This made me happy!LikeLike
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then, this made ME happy! and i love your post on
The Secret. i just tried again to comment and it won’t.
i am going to have to find a different time to comment
than Sunday evening it seems.
xoxoLikeLike
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We have blue-tongued lizards, you would have blue-tongued dogs from trying to lick it off.
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Well, the way things are going around here, spring has sprung and not just in terms of the equinox. It was 80 degrees in the town where I teach today!!! Goodness me its about two months early.
It must be sooo exciting to get all those different, sumptuous blues, definitely.LikeLike
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Wow!!! Fabulous…looks like you had a blue St. Patrick’s Day 🙂 Lovely blues, I can understand why you are excited.
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sure….I don’t understand why we didn’t before!
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Heh heh heh…
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Every new mother should be so proud of her basketful of blues! I have been likening the vats to babies, too – having to take their temperatures, feed them, keep them warm – and clean up after them – all so worth it!
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you’ve created some beautiful blues–a good thing, to have those blues. now, waiting to see your blue face–your blue hand gave me quite a chuckle!
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Grace,
I feel so sad for Jude. I have an idea, for I feel quite helpless, for she does so much for us and I would like to do something for her. So what if we all make a circle of lights for WAS and Jude? I lit a candle and put it on my blog. Perhaps we could all do this. As many people visit your blog will you help me spread the light? (please don’t mention my blog, for it’s for Jude and WAS)
By the way, I do love your indigos!!!LikeLike
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Hey, Mo’a! there’s more now. it’s Wednesday when i’m
typing this…LikeLike
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you can say that again………..
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i was thinking about how we take endless photographs
of them.LikeLike
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GLAD you are home!!!!!
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sandra…i think things are quietly how they might
need to be?, i don’t know, but i think it’s ok the
way it is now….
i don’t know.LikeLike
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