Saturday

collaboration with discarded flowers



yesterday on the bike road home from a very emotionally challenging trip to the kindergarten i stopped and asked a lady who was cutting the pansies back if i could have her 'rubbish'.




i had seen what
india flint had made and i fell in love with textiles again.
patterns dont excite me like they used to.if i was to do textile design again i think i would find it really difficult.but to stain and colour cloth, thats joy.





who knows what i will do with them or how permanent they but i did just really enjoy the process.and as they fade and change maybe back to white silk i think that is just part of their magic.

14 comments:

Manda said...

wow! how much fun was that, making flower magic...so so beautiful...the fabric and the flowers afterwards

roko said...

Hi,How are you merinda?
You looking so happy.
I saw your beautiful flowers.

HANA wa genkidesuka?
Hiroko

anette said...

this is so BEAUTIFUL!
the best textile pattern ever!
thank you

wa_bandits said...

hi sis WaBandits will always rock butt....and i will have the angel living in THE WEST OF AUS !

hiki said...

how magical!!!!
it's really amazing what you can do with something you can find so close to you. flowers in my window boxes are calling me out now!

melindatrees said...

thankyou im so happy you like them too! i will make more.
no flowers are safe ;-)
and who is wa bandits?? dom??

melindatrees said...

it is you dom ♡

Jennifer said...

This is beautiful. I actually placed one of these photos on my Tumblr today not realizing at first it was yours :)
Lovely idea.

hannna said...

beautiful! you should work it into a fabric and send me some.

flowers seem so far away...

R.G. said...

this is so beautiful!

anna said...

wowee
this is such a lovely post!
there's something wrong with the word 'designer', hey? it just doesn't sound playful enough...
i like 'maker' better.

melindatrees said...

i like maker too anna.

m i l e n a said...

beautiful patterns, beautiful process
so inspiring!
... melancholy for sunshine and flowers

Hermine - Journal de jours said...

Wow, this is so beautiful !