Snow queen on her way to Denmark

Finally posted my work for the exhibition in Odense connected to the Felt in Focus week in July.I seem to have been working on this for a long time ,on and off and it felt strange to go into the studio the next day and not see it hanging/lying there.

The studio has sneaked into this picture.

This is the story roll which has digital images,screen printing and lace cut out techniques and ,as you can see, is Looooong.I'm never pleased with things i do, but sort of like this.
I'm now using the weld i grew in the meadow to dye anything and everything-there is so much of the stuff.Given that i don't much like yellow,it's a problem, but i can always overdye.The smell of weld in the slow cooker is all pervasive and this year, the yellow seems very bright for some reason.Never mind,woad will knock it back and also some of my rust liquid will go in there this morning. 

More in the kimono saga

These are the two fronts of my piece de resistance so far and i am now well into the back, which of course is the same size as two fronts, so is taking more time & thought.It really is an interesting challenge,getting the balance right,added to the fact that I think my devore liquid may be going off in the heat,which has finally come back to our corner of France.
Alonside this work, i am thinking about a piece i have to make for Felt in Focus in Denmark  next year, based on Fairy tales Some of the techniques used in the lace will carry over to the Danish piece,which is going to be based on Hans Christian Andersen's Snow Queen, mainly because the story terrified me as a child,so I wanted to face my demons!

Finally,i am harvesting some glorious weld,which is defiantly growing at the front of my flower bed,where i hastily planted it last year before we left here for the uk,thinking it would never survive.How wrong was I?