The Inconsequential Blogger

Here is the latest installment on my growing flax for linen experiment. It all started last spring with the planting of the flax. Over the s...

The mail brought a wonderful thing to my doorstep yesterday - this raw Paco-vicuña fleece:     Well, that's really just the bl...

I finished the Gryffindor scarf and have begun the Slytherin one - ten points to me!!

My son asked if I could knit some scarves for him and his girlfriend for Christmas. Specifically, a Gryffindor scarf and a Slytherin scarf. ...

I recently read the excellent book, Code Name Verity , by Elizabeth Wein. It's set during WWII, and mentioned in the book are a pair of...

1. I'm having a sale in my Etsy shop , and two of my books are discounted with coupons over at Smashwords. Follow the links for more in...

My Etsy shop is back up and re-stocked. The shop had been in vacation mode since mid-summer, but it's back now. I only have one herbal ...

 On a walk this morning I found a small piece of lichen that had fallen off of a tree. Knowing that lichens can be used to dye with, wit...

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 ...