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