Plant Dye Recipe and Tutorial: How to Make a Jewelweed Dye
How to make a plant dye with jewelweed in an easy to follow natural dye tutorial.
Experiments with Nettle Dye, Take Two
Last year I posted a recipe for making dye with Stinging Nettles. to check out that post click here. The dye bath from last year turned out to be a lovely, yet light color. I had harvested in the late spring once the nettles…
Celebrate Stinging Nettles: A Recipe for Nettle Dye!
In honor of this year's first annual Nettle Fest, being held at Lifebridge Foundation in Rosendale, NY this upcoming Saturday May 11th, I spent yesterday enjoying the beautiful sunny weather and dyeing yarn with freshly harvested stinging nettles. Nettle Fest…
Re-Thinking Food ‘Waste’
Have you ever marveled at the rich color of the dark blue water that is left over after soaking black beans? Or wondered if some of the food waste that ends up in trash cans and compost can be re-used…