Got the blues?

Well, I don’t. This was just a day where everything seemed to flow towards mysterious shades of blue, lilac and violet. Lets not forget black either, my favourite foil against just about any colour.

I’m just about done cleaning out the odds and ends … or so I thought. I decided a while back that I wasn’t going to bother working with 5 momme silk anymore — it’s pretty, but much too flimsy for my taste — but what do you know? I find 65 (!) yards of it that I didn’t think I had. Good grief. How, may you ask, does one not know that they have 65 yards of something laying about? I asked myself that, but I found no answer. What’s even worse is that it’s 54 inches wide. I have absolutely no intention of making half circles out of this stuff, so that also means that I must cut it down to 45″ wide and then hem all four sides. I’ve mastered the perfect hem, but this is still a pain in the you-know-where.

So there’s going to be another batch of 5 momme veils coming up, whether I like it or not. Such as this little pretty :

Pretty, yes. But not like this:

It’s particularly nice if you’re going to dye something black that it has that extra substance that 6 momme has for the dyes to bite into. No iffy black. Real black.