Grey Day Dyeing

I've been out on the back porch dying some fabric. I'm trying to get a purple/dark blue/grey effect for some backgroung fabrics and have used Procion Navy (MX3R), Deep Purple (no number - it depends where I get the dyes; Kraftkolour do give the proper numbers which is excellent) and Black MX2R.

Underneath, I used purple, navy and Yellow (MX8G), so there should be some green there as well.

The weather is perfectly autumnal...cool crisp mornings and warm, sunny afternoons. A butterfly dropped by as I as taking a photo of the fabric:

About to send off another activity for Creative Quilting...

Ironing!

A gorgeous Autumn day outside, so what did I do? Ironing! Well, not the normal, run of the mill, type ironing, but the 'I've got some fabric for a new quilt that has been washed and needs ironing' ironing.

Much more enjoyable!!

Needless to say C&G is still going nowhere...it's like every time I have a go at a new activity, it goes horribly wrong and I don't know what to do about it. Went to the museum again, and the photos are very ordinary, again; pages bleeding into each other and spoiling the work that would've been ok, etc, etc. It would be nice to have some help, but I think that I'm the only one who can deal with it. I think that I'm kidding myself that I have any creative bones in my body at all. How did I ever do the Art for the Stitch?????