slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: dyeing
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Somehow I left these out of my post yesterday and they were the best ones! The pair is printed from plum leaves.
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I decided to try my hand at dyeing with natural indigo powder this weekend since I missed my weeklong workshop at Arrowmont where I would have dyed with a fresh (fermented) indigo vat. Following instructions on the Dharma Trading website, I soaked the natural indigo powder overnight and ground it in a blender. I added…
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An aphorism: “If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill A naturally dyed print on cement by nature: Woven words: First peppers: Surprise! I think that I remember tossing some unidentified seeds here. Cucumbers? Will separate and transplant elsewhere.
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Sandy and I spent a couple of days at Lake Waccamaw at my cousin’s house last week. It was a busy week despite being on vacation. We spent one day reading and playing in the water and the next day we went to Wilmington briefly and I did some eco-printing inside because of the rain…
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Whee, this was better than Disney World. Seriously. Chad Alice led us through finishing prefelted needle-punched merino wool batts, then we clamped fun metal and Lexan and wood stuff to folded pieces and dyed them, and took them off, and reclamped, and dyed them, and took them off, and reclamped, and dyed them. All in…
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Before I move on with my day, let me post about this ongoing art project that began in September, 2013. Here’s what I wrote about it to send to India Flint for this project. Our family farm sits upon the site of a Native American village and mound site from around 900 years ago. In…
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British encampment at Guilford Courthouse Battle reenactment I have the house to myself today while my husband goes target shooting with his friends. Ten or so years ago we would have been at Guilford Courthouse National Military Park doing the reenactment of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, one of the last battles of the American…
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I am attempting to germinate indigo seeds in my office. Two pots are actually planted with woad seeds. I planted them about two weeks ago and just found out that they take about a month to germinate. I am going to be quite ticked if they don’t germinate and I waste four weeks on watching…
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Stitching little bird tracks on the farm scroll. I dye my silk thread by wrapping it around fabric bundles. The yellow thread was dyed with broomsedge, and the brown thread was dyed with black walnut hulls. The steam plant at UNCG.
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Now that I know what an oak gall looks like, I gathered some from my mother’s yard to use for natural dye and ink. Kicking back with Pablocito and Nurse Jackie tonight after a long day of traveling and house chores.
slowly she turned 