The Inconsequential Blogger

Okay, here is a report on further progress in my growing flax for linen experiment. As previously posted, I grew some flax this past summer...

Over the past few days I've been working on a pair of knitted and felted clogs. When you knit something for felting, it has to be made ...

There are some aspects of language which convey a mindset. Take, for example, the word, nigger . A white person who uses this word can be ...

A little over a week ago I posted about hulling walnuts , getting ready to dye with the hulls. After letting the four pounds of hulls soak ...

A few months ago I spun this hand-dyed roving into a two-ply yarn with my drop spindles:       And recently I came across a cute ...

I've been thinking about using walnut hulls to dye with because I recently saw a picture of a gorgeous brown gotten from them. I happen...

My flax-to-linen experiment continues. A few posts ago, I wrote about pulling the flax I grew this summer in a 5x10 ft. plot. I let the bu...

Dyeing with tickseed flowers today. The flowers are yellow, but they make a pretty orange dye:     Here is some superwash merino r...

I pulled my modest 4x10 foot plot of flax today. I bundled it as I pulled it and then put it in the yard to dry out a bit before further p...

I just finished a pair of little knitted pants for my grand-niece, who is a few months old. The yarn is hand-spun superwash Bluefaced Leices...

A week ago, my husband and I spent a few days in Michigan on the shore of Lake Huron. Lake Huron is a beautiful, clear lake - in places alm...

I'll be signing books at the Howe Meadow farmer's market in Cuyahoga Valley National Park tomorrow, Saturday, August 18th! I'll ...

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I pulled a bit of my flax today. This is one of the two bundles I pulled: The two bundles represent about 1/8 of what I have grow...