So I peeked last night …

Unfortunately, the center of the Inktense Shibori spiral wasn’t as defined as I had hoped. And because I unwrapped the cloth while it was still damp, a lot of the color washed out …

But I learned from that (which was the whole point). Then tried again, this time stitching with doubled thread, taking more process shots along the way …

I used just one color: Payne’s gray (or is it grey?) … which I love. But as it dried the gray began to look too uniform, so I mixed up a bit more and touched it onto the still-damp cloth.

Once again unable to wait any longer, I unbundled it this morning …

and methinks it made through washing and ironing just fine …

So now I’m pondering how best to work with complementary colors without muddling them together (the key word being “mud”). However, those trials will have to wait until we get back from our sojourn in New Mexico. For sure I’ll be looking for lots of inspiration while there.

Addenda: Shibori trials so far (for scale, the Inktense book is 2” x 3”)

And this is for Nancy …