Studio Work ABOUT my art & others

I began here 3 days ago. Day 3 and the third pass. I am losing exactly where i am at as i am now mixing it up.  Some of the first lot of cloth i have kept as is, others i have taken from the onion pot into the avocado pot and then, some of that lot back into the gum leaves and many of all these cloths, including some dry ones have gone into a copper pot. A few pieces are also already stitched works mainly monocolour and/or white on white.  I am using a repurposed urn and interchanging the buckets to heat them up.  It is fast becoming a dirty pot but i am liking a lot of the effects and colours that are coming up. 

I grabbed an armful of WHITE cloths, scraps and a blanket, soaked 3 separate buckets, 1 with onion skins, one with avocado pits and skins and a third with gum leaves from the forest.  I decided to commandeer my studio coffee urn (i will get a kettle!) and started heating up a brew.  (above:  a table runner - onion skins) Planning now to keep going with more white cloths but also to see /experiment with citric acid (as a bleacher) and copper sulphate to adjust colours ... fun!  loving the woven cloth and how the different textiles pick up the colour. that cloth to the right of the woven piece is a lovely rich colour. more lovely rich colour- waiting to see how it dries this was an overdye but nothing seemed to have happened so it will go into another pot today this piece started out well but its got a bit blotchy from the onion skins - will look at another process to adjust this one loving the beige colour in the blanket and the rich oranges (onion skin) although i di...