Feltastiks

Some of the beautiful flora and scenery whilst on holiday in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Different textures and patterns at the water’s edge!

While waiting for our next flight at Vancouver airport yesterday we saw this beautiful textile work by Heather Talbot. It was a combination of needle felting and stitch. More info on this artist in the last 2 pictures! It was a bit tricky to take photos through the glass cabinet!

Changing the colour! I had a lot of yellow wool left over from last year’s natural dye group, so today I modified some with copper sulphate (top 3 skeins) and iron sulphate to get different shades of green!

Wonga Wonga vine leaves modified with iron sulphate shifts the colour from yellow to green!

Cotton sateen fabric botanically printed with Wonga Wonga vine leaves,which is an Australian native plant!

HWSGV Natural Dye Group. At our monthly get together we had 4 different dye pots on the go- coreopsis, eucalyptus crenulata, scarlet black fungi and Osage orange! Our plan was to get 4 different oranges to go with our 2026 project ‘The colour Wheel’. The pinks and red shades came from madder a lac extracts from March’s dye day.

Eucalyptus bark in all its glory! Royal Botanical Gardens at Cranbourne!

Day 2 of the HWSGV retreat at Marysville. Today we dyed with Eucalyptus crenulata. Very similar dye colour as yesterday. Over the weekend we used the dye pot 7 times!
The skeins looked so vibrant all together.

An amazing day for HWSGV retreat in Marysville this weekend. I had my dye pot on all day with my favourite dye from the eucalyptus cinerea leaves produced the beautiful orange/red colour on wool, both home spun and commercial!
I get to do all again tomorrow!

Can’t think of a better way to spend National Eucalyptus Day!