Saturday 6 August 2011

Summer

Summer means green for me, August is when the plants really seem to take off. We had a hot April, and a damp May and June, it's taken the plants a while to work out that this really is summer!
There's lots of inspiration for colour at this time of year. I love Sweet Peas, not just for their delicate colours but also for their beautiful scent.

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The colours in these beauties, inspired this roving, unfortunately while I can capture colour, I can't work the same magic on scent!
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For today, how about some Honeysuckle?

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Or some Nasturtiums (which also taste rather nice in salads)?

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Or a Sunflower?
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Of course all this growth also means plenty of dye material, there's a few fresh braids of fibre that just need to dry so I can upload them in to the shop.

2 comments:

  1. That there fibre is pretty enough to make me want to learn to knit!

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  2. Roving with the nasturtium colours in would be wonderful too!

    (If I did that, and based it on my nasturtiums, it would have to include black - for the blackfly which are eating them up...)

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