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…
Avocado Dye: Skins and Pits
Last weekend I was overcome with creative restlessness. That emotion plus rain usually leads to a new project.…
Black Bean Dye
Beans. I’m not a fan. However, black bean dye has the potential to make my favorite color – teal blue.…
Creative Redoux
Hello again. Things have a changed a bit around here- in real life and cyber life. First — I let…