Wool - Tribulations of Hand Spinning and Herbal Dyeing

It is now Sunday night and tomorrow will be the big reveal.  Naturally, I stumbled upon good instructions for contact dyeing  only after hav...

Last week, I was singing of summer in full-throated ease, yarrow flowers leaping out of  the grass.  This week, as the season of mists ap...

Yarrow, arrowroot, knight's milfoil, staunchweed, woundwort, bad  man's plaything, devil's nettle or death flower. Officially,...

These hollyhocks are Double Maroon, now blooming in my garden.  Pretty stunted, compared to the ones growing in a thin strip of dust besi...

Anyone following this blog could guess I have a considerable stash of test dyed skeins of wool squirreled away.  The palette so far is limit...