Working in heat this weekend and the puppet seems a bit harder to assemble when M. comes around to see it for the first time....does bamboo expand in warm weather? We work the puppet using the head, which is now fixed correctly. and Db. experiments with movements. We find we have a whole range of very expressive things this beast can do. (There is now the film footage of the puppet in action on the updated 'elphant skeleton' post, from the first time we got it walking.)
The sunshine is very welcome because I have some dyeing to do, and things won't dry in the cool we have been used to. I notice the purple dye tones with my newly opened roses, but you can't see the roses in the image, because I have framed the photograph to avoid the junk mountain on the patio....Was I really wearing my woollen hat this time last week?
And finally, we transfer the making to the communal gardens at the rear of our home, where there is some dappled shade ( it is really too hot on the tarmac at the front). It's cogs all the way now as we fashion the quintessential components of a steampunk elephant.
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