The Inconsequential Blogger

So, three years ago I started growing flax in the hopes of processing it into linen yarn and then making something with it. This is somethi...

 I planted my flax a few weeks ago by strewing the seeds. I had 13 ounces of seeds, 5 oz. of my own that I saved from last year's crop,...

 I have finally begun knitting with my homegrown, handspun linen - the next stage in my flax-to-linen experiment/project. If you wish to se...

When this book first came out, the few things I heard about it made me not want to read it, and I thought I never would. I thought it was ...

Today I have been working with a beautiful Icelandic fleece I got at the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival. I didn't get it at the fleece...

  I had a great time at the 2015 Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival over the past weekend. I scored some really lovely fleeces, saw lots of...

  When processing flax, most of it becomes tow flax - the shorter fibers that stay behind in the hackles when hackling the flax. So you h...

When I first started growing flax, I bought my flax-for-linen seeds from The Hermitage . They sell Marylin variety of seeds from the Netherl...

  I finally got all of my 2014 flax crop broken, scutched and hackled. I was late in planting last year, and therefore late in harvesting...

  Our library has acquired a 3-D printer. They held a class the other day on how to design things and submit them to the printer. Printed...

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...