The Inconsequential Blogger

  So, this past summer I grew some flax for fiber. After rippling, retting, breaking, scutching and hackling, I ended up with 6.9 ounces ...

  A couple of years ago I found a pattern in a magazine for knitted flower fairy dollies. I thought they were so cute, and then one of my...

  An acquaintance had a friend who was ill and asked her to find a good home for her spinning wheel after she passed. My acquaintance tr...

   This year I grew about twice the flax that I grew last year. It was a good year and the flax grew well, it seemed a bit taller than...

EDIT: Please read to the end to see results and colors, I've included the not-so-successful results of this dye session, and added resul...

[EDIT: For more information on dyeing with these seeds, please see this later post Here .]   I've been growing Hope black sunflower...

I've been doing some dyeing with natural dyes lately, using roots, leaves, and flowers. Below is a dye pot made with goldenrod flowers....

I have a very tall sunflower in my garden this year, my daughter consented to pose for this picture to give it scale:   It's a H...

This is my second year of growing flax for linen. Last year I planted roughly half of a 10 ft. x 20 ft. plot with flax. The other half of t...

Out of all of my fiber work this past week, I allocated two days for dyeing. On Wednesday I collected my first Japanese indigo leaf harvest...

This is a picture of an antique flax hackle: I've been keeping my eyes open for old flax processing tools whenever I see antiques for sa...

I'll be signing books at the farmer's market in Howe Meadow in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park from 9-12 on Saturday, August 10th....

We are back now from a two-week trip to Turkey. I have to say that Turkey is a wonderful country with so much to see, and the people everyw...

It always smells so good!

I've been trying out some natural dyes on about 4 ounces of Teeswater wool roving I had in my stash of fiber. Teeswater is one of the l...

I really like babydoll Southdown wool for one big reason, it can be machine washed and dried without shrinking or felting. I have a pair of ...