wallhangings one for each family.
the are small but cute.

this is the same view taken on Oct. 24th

this is view of the leaves on the
trees across the road from us on
the hill

this is the same view on Oct. 24th on a
beautiful Saturday afternoon. quite a
difference in one week

the moon is just over the hill at this
point. full moon on halloween night

Lots more leaves to blow into piles.

Leaves in piles everywhere, big piles of
leaves.

a week ago these trees were full of leaves

persimmon tree in center is too
high to pick persimmons. they land on the
road

Halloween afternoon-only a
week ago these trees had lots of leaves

looks like 2 faces at the top of the blue

this fat 8th was folded horizontally and vertically. Orange
dye was poured on the fold and blue on the ends, then the
colors were encouraged to intermingle.

color run in 7 parts from brilliant blue to strong orange, both
pro chem dyes.

the lino cutter along with the stamp which is
about 8 " square

the lino stamp after use before being re"inked" with dye

these are the foam stamp letters I bought at Hobby Lobby,
the onion section, the apple section, the carrot piece, the
leaf cut from a foam meat tray, the brayer.

these are the letters, the onion, the apple, the leaf
cut from a foam meat tray, the brayer, and the
carrot piece used to stamp the fabric.
I used sodium alginate to thicken the dye. I added some
soda ash powder to the prepared mix to help set the
dye color which was a combination of blues.

this is the paper pattern that I used to cut the
design for the stamp. I used an exacto knife to
cut the stamp design but had to order lino cutters
in order to clean out the design to make it useful
as a stamp.

4th swap piece

another swap piece

piece 2 of stamp swap

leaf from foam meat tray, onion, round circles are carrots, an apple on the upper right didn't turn out right. letters from a stamping alphabet and the linocut stamp. the linocut stamp was hard because the fabric dye would not adhere to it in a total coverage but beaded up.

more fall foliage.