Some of my favorite memories from a difficult spring, early pandemic, were the weekly Skype calls between my Mom, brother…
Summer Knit with Onion Skins
It was the quiet tick in the early morning that woke me from a restless sleep. A gentle reminder from…
Black Hollyhock Dye
Black hollyhocks bewilder me. Each year I add more plants to my garden, amazed at their height, their voracious bloom…
Marigold Dyed Sweater
My little dye garden is full of coreopsis, hollyhocks, two small loquat trees, and lots and lots of marigolds.…
Natural Dye using Onion Skins
Onion skins are an ideal natural dye. This is one of those kitchen scrap dyes, like dyeing with avocado seeds.…
Avocado Dye (with video!)
My freezer is littered with avocado pits. My husband, who organizes our small, family of five freezer, (no easy feat)…
Scattered, a Lesson. With a Loquat Dye.
Saturday morning I stood at our table preparing skeins for a mordant bath, lost in thought, when my 12 year…
Natural Dye – Privet Berries
A considerate bird planted a privet bush against my fence a few years ago. This simple act created a food…
Spring Yellow with Acacia Flowers
Raising boys into men isn’t easy. Expectations from them, their expectations of me, setting boundaries, upholding them against young stubbornness…
Dyeing with Marigolds
Marigolds are one of the easiest flowers to experiment with due to accessibility and a simple dye process, yet here…
