I’m trying to get back into the swing of updating this blog regularly, and so I’m starting with a photo post. Enjoy! Beans and corn growing in our vegetable garden. They are both local Native American varieties. Yarn I dyed using Queen Anne’s Lace (the yellow parts) and onion skins (the orange parts). I call [...]
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Friday Photo Post
Posted in chickens, crafting, garden, natural dyeing, photo post on Friday, August 27, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Plant dyeing experiments #2 and #3: Black beans and Rooibos
Posted in crafting, Green witch, natural dyeing on Monday, March 8, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Blue is one of the more difficult colours to achieve with plant-based dyes. The ancient Celts used woad, and the ancient Asians used indigo, and that was pretty much it until synthetic dyes were invented. I’ve ordered some indigo seeds from my favourite local seed company, just for fun, and I will be looking up [...]
Plant dyeing experiment #1: Buckthorn
Posted in crafting, knitting, natural dyeing on Saturday, February 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It’s the time of year when I’m itching to rush headlong into a bunch of exciting new creative projects, but don’t actually have the energy to do any of them, because my SAD hasn’t yet retreated enough. One project I have started dipping into (pun entirely intended) is plant-based dyes for animal fibers (wool, etc.) [...]
