Luis and Eugene, Galgael volunteers, preparing the plants for dyeing and watching the big pot between the boats
Eugene bundling the yarrow
Luis extracting the seeds from the sorrel
the yarrow in nice bundles
Eileen finally at the dyepot!
and that is what the sorrel dyes wool (alumn mordant) looks like now
a sculpured sun in the making: with onion skin dyed wool
the sun from the back: left 'raw' as it is for a wall hanging
flat felt sheet for stars with birch leaf dyed wool and with silk strands
sheet from the back
cutting out the stars
Luis 'sculpting' the hat model
the 4 heads of our German friends are all shiney and to be filled with plaster!
Alison came to carry on working on the felt portal
Sarah-Jane makng the perfect stone felt with Shetland blues and other features; felt-slab arch in background on florr
the wool noils are perfect for the stone felt
Eugene building up muscles
my goodness what hard work!
come on, says S-J, you can make it!
