I started the week working on another saved-from-the-bin piece... offcuts from my daily drawing gouache brush cleaning colour swatches last month made into a collage, then turned into a repeat pattern in photoshop. I’ve scaled this up to A2 so I can get some sheets of wrapping paper printed.

Whilst I was in a bright colour mood, I started to introduce colour to my hollyhock rubber stamp repeat pattern. This also may work as wrapping paper.

Interesting dye results from black poppies - these have self-seeded all over my front garden, and I gathered the spent petals earlier in the summer and froze them. They make a nice range of soft grey-greens similar to black hellebore petals.

Finally, some hidden hieroglyphics revealed themselves as I went to clean out a dye pot one morning... my favourite patterns and symbols are accidental ones.