Natural Dye Series

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I just published a post on the blog about how to set up a weak strength fructose indigo vat for achieving stable light blue shades on cellulose fabric. I love this color so much and after some experimenting I figured out it can be quite easy to achie
It’s go time during farming season but right now is slow time. Today I spent most of the day standing in front of the wood stove feeling at peace with the process of making slow colors rather than multitasking. It takes a while to ease back int
It’s tricky to achieve even results on yardage when shifting a color with iron. It’s also super tricky to get every piece to land at the same shade with iron! This is the yellow fabric I shared in my last post shifted to green with iron.
I’ve been slowly working on naturally dyeing 7 yards of linen the same rich golden depth of shade. The next step is to shift the color to dark green in a weak iron bath. This will eventually be used as the background color for a quilt I have pl
Excited to pick up where I left off at the onset of farming season!
It was an honor to be featured in this short film by filmmakers @cjakins21 and @jared_jakins ! We are really pleased to announce that American Seams is being featured on PBS beginning today. I’ve posted links in my stories and I’ll save t
Back to some hand stitching in the evening. Not sure where this will go but I’m working backwards by making a border first. Feels good to be stitching again.
Making colors again 🌱🌈✨
I used to do all my natural dye work in the summer but my farm work has kept me so busy that I haven’t been able to do both at once. I still don’t have a sink in my studio so I do most of my dye work outdoors. I never would’ve dream
Today’s work was processing, and cleaning seeds. They’re put away in jars now for safe keeping until spring and dang does that ever feel good. The farm season is officially over and textile season is about to begin!
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