The Inconsequential Blogger

I don't like it when people tell me I under-value my own work because I price it too low. They tell me, "A handspun, hand-dyed skei...

For Christmas my husband gave me a couple of bundles of cotton stems from a florist. How exciting! I've spun prepared cotton, but I...

At the Great Lakes Fiber Show this past summer, I bought two bags of alpaca seconds (the part of the fleece that's not first quality)....

  Inspired by a yarn featured in Rebecca Burgess' book on natural dye plants called, Harvesting Color ,  I dyed up some wool with thr...

 Rebecca Burgess's book, Harvesting Color , is one of my favorite dye books. Because of this book, I've added pokeberries, bidens f...

This year's flax crop is retting in an inflatable kiddie pool that I got on clearance this same time last year. Last year's cro...

  My neighbors had an enormous, beautiful box elder tree in their front yard. Recently, with heavy rains, a large limb came down. A large...

  Last year at the end of the gardening season, before the first frost killed off my Japanese indigo crop, I harvested a bunch of stalks ...

Rose of Par Kluhnd has a new map at the front of the book. The original was my own, but the new one is professionally done and looks terrif...

 Qiviut is the warm, soft undercoat of the musk ox. It keeps the musk ox warm in its native habitat of the arctic regions in places such as...

  The milkweed plant produces a fiber that can be used by spinners. Fibers from hemp, flax, dogbane, milkweed and nettle have been used f...

I'll be signing books at Old Trail School, nestled in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, this Saturday, March 22, from 10 AM to 1 PM. Th...

About 1 1/2 pounds of merino, washed, dyed-to-order, and  carded into bats. Next up, grouping it for spinning, and then... Spinning! It'...

  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...