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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.…

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Avocado Dye (with video!)

My freezer is littered with avocado pits. My husband, who organizes our small, family of five freezer, (no easy feat)…

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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…

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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…

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Dyeing with Marigolds

Marigolds are one of the easiest flowers to experiment with due to accessibility and a simple dye process, yet here…

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Avocado Dye: Skins and Pits

    Last weekend I was overcome with creative restlessness. That emotion plus rain usually leads to a new project.…

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Black Bean Dye

Beans. I’m not a fan. However,  black bean dye has the potential to make my favorite color – teal blue.…

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Creative Redoux

Hello again. Things have a changed a bit around here- in real life and cyber life. First — I let…

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Gymnopilus Experiment

These Gymnopilus sp. mushrooms sat on my new picnic table (built by my husband) for a few days before I…

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