Bright colors

I recently bought a curtain at a thrift store, it was probably from the seventies but I liked the brocaded pattern and though it was a bright lime green:

Synthetic as it is, I had some success in the past, giving a similar fabric a date with some black dye, so I thought I'd try it again. Tossed the curtain in with the black dye, hung it out to dry and this is the result :

My camera does not give it quite the right color, but it is now a more olive tinge and noticeably darker, which is what I wanted. Now I can continue with the next stage of the jacket I want to make.

Thrifty tunic

I bought a linen table cloth a while back. It had a nice pattern:

 It was roughly 1,4 m square, so just barely enough for a tunic. I picked the hemmet edges to gain the extra centimetres, and then I cut the fabric and made this:

I will add a bone bead as closure but that will have to wait, since I didn't bring it to Gotland. Right now I'm in the process of getting my kitty Jameson used to being outside, so I can go travelling while my parent have the care of my furballs.