Natural Dyeing: Blackberry

Turns out blackberries can do other things besides make delicious treats and be a pain in the garden. I love the nice purple and green that...

Natural Dyeing: Queen Anne's Lace (Wild Carrot)

I got a nice pale yellow on my homespun wool with Queen Anne's Lace. Also known as wild carrot, this grows wild all over the northw...

Black Bean and Onion Socks

These are my wooly, slightly felted, super warm, comfy socks that I made with my black bean  and  onion  dyed handspun yarn! I've only ...

Natural Dyes: Black Beans

Who would have thought that black bean juice would dye yarn a beautiful shade of blue-grey? I had a really hard time capturing the color ...

Natural Dyes: Onion Skins

Now that I've gotten the hang of  spinning  yarn, I've moved onto the next project: dyeing yarn! I was going to begin my experiment...

Katie Learns to Spin

When Ari and I took a  road trip last summer , we acquired a spinning wheel along the way, which Ari's stepmom generously gave to me ...