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jodi s weblog skip to content jodi s weblog drinks diary 18 february 2014 drinking tea on the patio of big city bread in athens georgia with mary jessica on a very warm day glorying in baring our legs before heading back home to cold canada this wonderful sunken patio is lined with concrete planters with huge bushes of rosemary in them during my second year of grad school when i lived in normaltown i d occasionally grab a sprig while biking past on days when i wanted to roast potatoes here in cold canada we have to plant new rosemary every year black blue green red ballpoint pens markers author jodi green posted on may 23 2026 may 22 2026 categories drinks diary 2014 sketchbook leave a comment on drinks diary 18 february 2014 indigo diamonds after two sessions of my weekly sewing circle spent untying and removing the tamarind seeds from this cloth it looked like this i half wished i could keep the bobbly texture forever but it wasn t going to be all that practical for the flowy summer throw i want to make pattern link cris wood sews throw jacket so here it is all pressed flat blowing in the breeze in the cherry tree time spent on this project measuring and marking the grid 2 5 hours tying in tamarind seeds 10 5 hours dyeing washing out neutralising 2 hours untying and removing seeds 4 hours total time 19 hours not as bad as i d feared because limiting the tying to just during sewing circle made it feel like weeks author jodi green posted on may 22 2026 categories dye indigo leave a comment on indigo diamonds a little blue update here s that cotton shawl from the other day after three dips in a strong indigo bath as i d hoped the myrobalan tannin that was already in the fabric shifted the indigo in a teal direction here it is hanging in the cherry tree since i did all the seed tying at my tuesday night sewing circle i m saving the unwrapping until i m back at sewing circle the suspense is killing me but i haven t even taken out one single seed to have a peek author jodi green posted on may 11 2026 categories dye indigo leave a comment on a little blue update the sweetest girl two years ago my beloved skeeter got cancer and died i never mentioned it here or anywhere else online because i was too sad because the world is too shitty because i was sick to death of the internet and putting anything personal on it then maybe a month later a friend told me that her relative whom i ve never met made a comment to her that i didn t seem too broken up about my cat dying that comment received at a time when i was pretty broken up about my cat dying actually put me into a slow simmer that eventually ended in my taking myself off all social media forever and i m a lot happier and healthier for it so thank you shitty person i ll never meet skeeter was the most difficult cat we ll ever live with sweet loving and stupid crippled by anxiety and a bully to our other cat who wasn t too broken up at her disappearance from our home we gave her a safe place to be herself and we loved her and tried to keep her off the other cat s back skeeter was a great lover of textiles so here s a little collection of her coziest moments here she is blocking a shawl she s helping sew a heraldic banner vairy gules and or casually slipping her claws into a crocheted afghan my mum made for my gramma in the printmaking studio drying rack she loved this rug so much i had to take off its fringe and stitch a clear vinyl binding strip over its edges to protect them here she is basting a quilt her last picture author jodi green posted on may 10 2026 may 11 2026 categories kitties leave a comment on the sweetest girl future blues today i refreshed the indigo vat with a new jar of starter solution and while it was reducing i took today s projects to be dyed out to the backyard to document the before the first is this old dress from a former life i made this some time in the early 1990s and despite its ill fit i wore this thing a lot i even wore it to someone s wedding although i can t remember whose it was ankle length then with long sleeves but i eventually shortened it a couple of years ago i found it up in the attic it s going to get overdyed with indigo then i ll cut away all the fabric leaving just the seams behind these seams will be stitched down onto the two sisters portrait quilts to draw their garments it ll make more sense i hope once the pieces start coming together is a garment made in the early 1990s considered vintage because it feels awfully weird to have a vintage dress i made myself the second piece going in the indigo today is this tie dye cotton shawl a project i worked on over several weeks at my sewing circle it s a beautiful very large cotton mull shawl from the maiwa shop link maiwa natural dyes that i mordanted with myrobalan tannin and alum before deciding to use indigo which doesn t require a mordant but that s okay because the parts that don t get dyed will be this soft myrobalan yellow instead of bright white i marked out a staggered grid over the whole shawl and tied a tamarind seed in at each grid point i kept track of the time while doing it this is 10 hours 20 minutes of tying seeds into cloth this piece looks so beautiful just tied like this so i took lots of pictures here s a closeup of the tied in seeds and here s the back side i love how the staggered grid pulls it in to look like some kind of glorious combination of smocking and sashiko author jodi green posted on may 6 2026 categories art dye quilts leave a comment on future blues red transom these diamonds are worked like darning but employed as embroidery on cotton fabric i m using embroidery floss which as you can imagine is a real pain in the ass i m constantly having to pull out and redo rows of weft because of failing to get the needle over or under a single strand of the 6 strand floss i think the final product will be worth it but wow this is tedious i work at it a little bit several days a week and it s going to take months to complete this is part of a six quilt series i m working on for my upcoming two person exhibition with lisa sylvestre link asil in september the works are in part about memory and comfort as all quilts are in a way about memory and comfort these quilts will depict a particular space in a particular room drawn and stitched from memory in different states of abstraction i ll write a lot more about these over the coming months this panel of diamonds is just one method i ll use to illustrate a red transom window in that remembered room it s going to be the slowest part of the whole project which is why i m working on it every day this will eventually be pieced together with other fabrics including the linoblock printed brocade which is the wallpaper in that room of memory and quilted along the lines that separate the diamonds the real life red transom did not have a diamond pattern it may have had a floral diapering pattern or it may have been plain red glass but i can t remember and every time i try to call up the image in my memory it shifts which is all part of how memory works and also why the window will be drawn many different ways in the quilts some but not all of these will have portraits all of them will have plants author jodi green posted on may 4 2026 may 6 2026 categories art quilts leave a comment on red transom in progress dogwood quilt this is a fun project peter and i have been working on together it started when i was sitting on the porch watching some neighbours hanging out their rugs to dry over their porch railing i thought the tile pattern on the rugs looked like a fun quilt block design so i grabbed my notebook and sketched it out of course as a printmaker i was stuck in the usual rut of a grid like small pattern repeat until peter took the pencil and started shading the tiles in the shape of a large four petalled blossom then he said this is the quilt i want on our bed he later sent me a photo of a dogwood tree on campus with the blossom colour we re putting in the quilt here is the colour sketch of one full repeat with a map to the blocks that make it up these blossoms will be quite large at least the size of a vinyl record and tumble in a repeat over the whole quilt on a background of mixed indigo fabrics and here is a test block i made just to try out the scale for the blossoms i ll try for better precision in joining the pieces on the real quilt these pieces were torn in rough strips rather than cut carefully i tend to prefer simple variations on basic blocks like snowball and log cabin so this is probably the most fiddly quilt i will ever make the actual quilt will be mostly indigo with a slightly off white achieved by simmering the cloth in coffee and a hot pink from cochineal and sappanwood author jodi green posted on may 2 2026 may 6 2026 categories quilts uncategorised leave a comment on in progress dogwood quilt two sisters i m finally back to working on those stitched portraits i was playing with a while ago making up a couple of small quilts to test out some processes i m hoping to use in some bigger work later this year these two small studies will be part of an upcoming exhibition to accompany a jazz festival at mackenzie hall this summer the larger quilt works that these are serving as practice for will be exhibited in september i ve got a lot of quilting to do this spring and summer i m hand stitching the portraits onto a colour blocked background of various naturally dyed cottons and some of the white on white brocade i printed recently these will be composed like formal portraits and each figure will be holding a potted plant no conceptual reason for the plant it s just an exercise in making stitched plant portraits again practice for those larger works to come for which there is a conceptual reason for the plant phew despite the blue hair this isn t a self portrait author jodi green posted on april 30 2026 may 6 2026 categories art quilts leave a comment on two sisters dye printing and painting workshop at asil studio here is some of our student work from a fun workshop i taught last week along with lisa sylvestre at her studio link asil we ve taught this before but this time we ve really nailed the tricky business of drawing loads of intense colour out of our dyes and getting them thick enough to work with easily with no bleeding we made extracts from nine different dyestuffs buckthorn osage sappanwood himalayan rhubarb lac madder eupatorium with iron added cutch with soda ash and cutch with iron i have some ideas for expanding our palette for next time but just look at what our students achieved with this beautiful range these are all a combination of printing with round felt blocks and painting with brushes on cotton bandannas pre mordanted with gallnut tannin and aluminum sulfate these two above were done by the same person and i love how one is like chemistry and the other biology this one has a lot of nice blending that we weren t sure would come through the steaming process intact but it did we were all very excited at how much of the texture of the original drawing came through in the final product in that central area here there were a few more we didn t get photos of but hopefully i ll be able to show them to you soon spoiler alert they re gorgeous lisa made up a few samplers the first simple blocks of each colour we used and the second a chart of colour combinations to get a sense of how they might blend there s still some dye left over so later this week i m going to do some screenprinting with it on plain mordanted fabric and on some that s already been dyed stay tuned and keep an eye on our class listings at asil ca if you want to try this yourself we ll soon be adding a few more sessions for spring and summer this post is cross posted to my studio weblog link levigator press author jodi green posted on april 27 2026 april 27 2026 categories dye teaching leave a comment on dye printing and painting workshop at asil studio drinks diary february 17 2014 ballpoint pen and marker dinner at transmet with brian a lovely person i knew in grad school coffee the next day at the waffle house in 5 points which i think may not be there anymore author jodi green posted on april 25 2026 april 27 2026 categories drinks diary 2014 jetset sketchbook leave a comment on drinks diary february 17 2014 posts navigation page 1 page 2 page 16 next page search for search recent posts drinks diary 18 february 2014 indigo diamonds a little blue update the sweetest girl future blues categories 2025 daily stitch accidental art capitalism drinks diary 2014 dye favourites food found garden home renovation indigo jetset kitties knit listening overheard papermaking printmaking projects quilts reading sewing sketchbook sketchbook blue 2012 14 stats studio teaching the park throwback uncategorised urban wildlife wardrobe windsor recent comments sandy on back to colour indigodreams on perpetual dyebath anna on books i read in 2025 jodi green on 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