Pride!

This Saturday was the Cape Town Pride Parade! This is third Pride I've gone to and I always greatly enjoy it. I've always experienced the atmosphere as very positive. Diverse people come together and there is a wonderful sense of acceptance, good will and celebration. It doesn't matter who you are, how "strange" you are or how much difficult cultures reject you based on your sexual orientation, sex or gender identity, the Pride community welcomes you. Members of the broader community also come support and cheer at the parade. I further enjoy how colourful it is at Pride and how vibrant the people are. Of course the experience was made even better because some of my best friends were with me. There were also some other fantastic people there, plenty of friendly strangers to chat to and even a few unexpected familiar faces.

You can see photos of pride here on Facebook.

Because this blog is meant to be about learning, I'll post about something I learned how to do because of pride: How to make tie dye shirts! Below are my two creations.

I can't find the tutorial I used (I had opened it on my phone and then lost the link), but this tutorial explains the steps just as well. I didn't quite follow things correctly, which is why the colour isn't very dark and the patterns are a bit blurry. The fabric also didn't take the dye well, and I only noticed afterward that it wasn't 100% cotton. It's all part of the learning process, however, and I think that for a first try I'm very happy with them! I hope the tie dye pre-Pride event I went to becomes a tradition so I can make a shirt or two each year. It's something I've always wanted to do!

For today's "awws", I bring you fluffy baby bunnies. <3