When I look out the window in the mornings all I see is grey drab winter weather, sometimes its frosty, the other day it even snowed but last week I was in Marsa Alam in Egypt and it was wonderful. It was hot, hot, hot ranging around 25 degrees and one day it even reached 32 degrees. This was the view from our balcony. A short walk away was the beach and a great photo opportunity. I am sure this image has been photographed many times.

Thursday, 25 October 2012. If you can spot the problems with this picture of some transfer paint, drying. Neither of them are huge problems, but this is not the best way of painting on transfer dye. Why? See if you can work it out. One is obvious; the other, less so. Good luck! Links to this post. Monday, 22 October 2012. Sunday, 21 October 2012.

Sunday, 29 March 2015. Apologies for the lack of pictures. The afternoon talk was given by Helen Farrar, Curator of Textiles at Bradford College Textile Archive. She shared with us a snapshot in time, 1900, and brought with her some of the students workbooks from this period. Again no photographs but there is a website. Yesterday saw the end of round one of the Travelling Book. Again no photographs but I can at least add photographs of mine returned.

Sunday, 2 September 2012. I chose two weights of white cotton to use for these techniques, most of my samples use the lighter of the two weights simply because this was easier to work with. I meant to photograph the fabric be.