I turned the dining room table in to a card-making factory this morning
Water colour worked a treat, until I discovered that although the stamp pad I used for test prints used waterproof ink, the actual printing ink was decidedly not! Colouring pencils will be the way to go. Something along these lines.
My 'bonus treat' when I am lino printing is to use up the last ink on the tray to make mono prints. I lay a sheet of A4 printer paper directly on the ink, and draw with a pencil. The pencils lines pick up the ink, transferring the design. You can get a more textured background by lightly smoothing the paper onto the tray. Next time I might skip the lino printing stage and go straight to mono printing!
On Sunday evening I finished the jumper that I started back in December. It lay untouched for several weeks at a time, sometimes because I had more urgent things to complete, other times because I needed to work out how was going to solve the problems I met along the way (wrong yarn and gauge for the pattern for a start!)
I have been wearing it all day yesterday and today.
Noah's Ark
Palm Sunday was always going to be a donkey! I learned an interesting fact on Sunday; donkeys were not thought of as such a humble ride back in Old Testament times; when kings arrived in a town they would ride a donkey to show they came in peace; horses were saved for war. If the king arrived on a horse then you could be sure his intentions were not peaceful.
"Lo, your king comes to you, triumphant and humble is he, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey." Zechariah 9.9
Monday - hares; "You shall not eat the hare, for even though it chews the cud, it does not have divided hoofs." Leviticus 11.6
Tuesday - "Spoil was gathered as the caterpillar gathers." Isaiah 33.4
So not a butterfly then!
The prints look good. What yarn did you use for the jumper?
ReplyDeleteI'll post a picture of the wool and the ball band with all the details.
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