Welcome to Arts and Wellness Café. As the week comes to a close we look at the word Discernment and how it using it impacts not only on your life but your creative pursuits as well.
Here are some of the projects that I shared in the video up close. The first one is a stitched project, one of my first and I really enjoyed creating.
The other project that I am working on is trying to extract the pigments from flowers and using it to dye fabric. Here I have been using a mortar and pestle
This is the extracted pigment and the pulp from the flower
Here is the flower - the Clitoria Ternatea and the way it dyes the fabric. You can also use it as a herbal tea - tastes delicious!
For a herbal tea you place the flowers in the cup and pour hot water onto it. The blue color is then released. If you add a couple of drops of lemon juice it turns the water purple instead of blue.
I will be sharing more from the results that I have gotten from other fabrics that have been dyed. If you want to see behind the scenes of some of the work I am doing you can join me on Patreon
For supplies, if you are interested in creating using the same supplies you can check them out below:
Embroidery Thread - https://amzn.to/3mFeYLC
Hand Embroidery Stitches at a glance - https://amzn.to/2PSpxPy
Fabric squares - https://amzn.to/2PMxExn
Pestle and Mortar - https://amzn.to/3mBdi67
Coffee filter - https://amzn.to/3s8YVHa
Clitoria Ternatea Seeds - https://amzn.to/2QiJb77
Clitoria Ternatea Flowers - https://amzn.to/39ZlwzB
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