Creation with loved ones around 總有你伴著

"Hey, how's going? Is it a sunny day?"

 

"Yup, close my eyes enjoying sunshine now."

 These two cats have never met, one is in the north while the other is in the south.  But I meet them and stroke them often.   Long hair Mogi is mine. The black&white is my studio neighbour's cat.  I adore both very much and found they're around my creations.

 

The prints from yellow flowers given by my studio's neighbour.  How can I not thinking of my good neighbours while doing creation.

That day I went solo biking passing the path in a village......

 

in the north of our region with undulating mountain.

 

Found the vinegrape and picked a few leaves for printing

 

Up to the mountain with herd of cows greeting

This is our stunning nature

 

Can you imagine Hong Kong - a facinating financial centre of high rises but just half an hour away we're into rural scenery with wild nature.

 

After the ride I back to the studio passing by my neighbour Ms F.  She's so nice to give me vegetables and the flowers for my experiments.

"Mum has good finds again.  Aroma of lemmon marigold is tempting."

 

This is video of the biking in our beautiful area

 

The other day I was in the north, next day I was in the south hiking with my team up to a mountain.

 

It's a cool day but not sunny.  Not too strenuous walking up and down the 1000+ steps.

 

In the middle looking back is Stanley where my studio was formerly there.  Now I rent out and moved to the north.  The seasonal flowers of camellia granthamiana are blooming.

We walked up and down along cement steps, then rocky path......

Can you see the flowers and the trail?  It's challenging but we can make it as we do almost every Friday hiking.

 

Lots of fallen flowers on the path..... in the stream....

How can I resist not picking some on the ground?

Friends asked what I am doing with the rubbish.  I said I make prints with the treasure.

 

Hiking in our mountains is interesting, sometimes with the well maintained bridges.

These two bridges in the reservoirs were built in the era of British colony

 

I'm home this weekend.

Mogi found it strange with empty floor.  Rare for me?

Creation is part of my life. Never ending and just done with the finds.

Prints of vine leaves, camellia, oxalis, nandina, lemmon marigold........

With proper mordant the fabric of silk and viscose printed so well.

In preparation for the upcoming workshop in NGO, I've to test the fabric they got from donor.  I don't know what the fabrics are but sure not synthetic.  After mordant I tested it with simple plants.  It works.

 

Yellow prints from tithonia and onion skins. 

 

Opening is always surprising, either pleased or disappointed.

Black&white, I don't know your name.  You're in my rural studio, so tame.

Will see you soon.

My home cat Mogi. He's always around me - my "work-centric".

Thanks for stopping by.  Hope you enjoy our scenery and my work.

My eco-printed corner 斗室一角

 

This is linen of eco prints made in Ireland while I was having holiday in Nicola Brown's farmhouse.  Back home almost a week but still can't adjust jet lag.   In the sleepless nights I was too addicted to make all those printed fabrics into home decor. One of the pieces is the wall hanging printed with cotinus, sycamore and eucalyptus.

身體時鐘仍未調適時差，夜半起來弄一杯香濃愛爾蘭咖啡，把在當地印染布料車縫成為掛畫、坐墊，為工作室添上一些旅遊的閒適回憶。

 

I was so glad to have made the eco prints with Nicola's tips on the vintage linen with her local hedgerow vegetation.  To make this a keepsake is to do something for my studio decoration.  I made the wall hanging and cushion covers with the prints.  My tiny studio corner is now enhanced with such lovely eco prints.

 

My tiny studio is away from my urban apartment.  I sometimes do small projects here or stay overnight after a hard day of work or hiking.

 

It's a small space but cozy with everything I needed.

Sofa unfolded to make it a tatami.  

Prints of "before & after" of the wall hanging.

 

I like to make something with good memories.  The day Nicola, Heather and I strolling along the long beach in Curracloe we picked some seashells.

 

 Nicola showed me the pretty little shell.

 

I got a few pieces home and embellished the small one as the wall hanging pendant.

The other linen prints are made into cushions.  Simple overlapped at the back without zipper or button.

 

Sounds Mogi likes it.

 

I also have another piece of silk prints with Japanese maple, oak, ginkgo and eucalyptus from my friend's garden in England.

Not sure if Mogi approves it but he occupied it immediately.

 

I sewed it into two chair pads.

 

The dining table with vintage cotton table cloth was my mother used to have.  I cut it into panels and printed with leaves.  Another post of the upcycled table cloth making.
 

 

The tiny studio is now decorated with my idea of eco prints with lots of good memories.

 

Be it a working studio or a space for a rest, it's my own space. 

How come I still can't adjust jet lag !  I woke up in the mid night to brew the Irish coffee.  Enjoy my coffee and the French linen printed in Ireland.