Weavers Just Want to Have Fun
Weavers often feel like they’re dancing when treadling and throwing the shuttle on a fully dressed floor loom. Yarn is threaded through the heddles, sleyed…
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September in the Dye Garden
by Carlie Muessig This season has resulted in an incredible crop of beautiful dye plants! Marigolds and coreopsis continue to bloom and be harvested, while…
The Little Loom that Could
by Margie Gale As my weaving teacher told me, even people with disabilities can weave on a rigid heddle loom. That is why she has…
Portable fibers – there for us during Covid, there for us now
By Margie Gale This study group is designed to be a group without an agenda other than getting together and doing whatever fiber project the…
Natural Dyeing/Awbury Garden Update!
The Natural Dyeing SIG recently gathered on Zoom for our first meeting of 2022. Those who were present shared introductions, glimpses of projects they’d created…
“Dyeing” Garden Creates New Life
by Pat Doran This is my last posting of Dye garden news since there is no longer a dye garden. See you next spring. On…
Fall in the Dye Garden
Pat Doran Fall comes to the garden slowly, almost imperceptibly. The zinnias are producing fewer blooms just as the goldenrod is beginning to bloom. We…
Greetings from the Dye Garden!
All goes well with weeding, harvesting blooms and watering, thanks to intrepid gardeners Pat, Charlotte, Linda and me, Pat. This is a learning experience for…