a love song

 a completely hand-sewn cotton dress, 'tis in fact 'the Curlew dress' from the Merchant & Mills workbook I bought on holiday in Edinburgh last summer; it went from being pure white all-over to mauve waves at the bottom of the sleeves and the hems of the actual dress part after a night of having been partially plunged into the aluminium pan with avocado-peels, and I think an old walnut remnant plus coin-clamps, the clamps are all still in place around the neckline which is itself still submerged, so there's no telling what that looks like for the moment.
The Curlew dress is as I type, further developing in two pots: the lower half is now dipped in the copper pot, with apple twigs plus tea/onion fluids......I want to add depth to the first stains....this is all very exciting for me, I can hardly wait to take the dress out and let it reveal it's true colours. I'm hoping for what I like to call a landscape feel, and wearing it I will be walking in my self-created earth inspired attire. 

I couldn't be creating like this if I hadn't met the man I am now married to, as I wouldn't be living here with my own personal space, the studio.
I sometimes ask him 'oh my, what would you do if we hadn't met?'

'look for you' he says

so this song is for him