It is much easier than you think! The trick is to find the raw honeycomb that the process begins with. I suggest contacting local beekeepers and asking if they do anything with their old honeycomb. The honeycomb I used came…
It feels almost as if winter settled down on us almost overnight. Our first snowfall, all the leaves having fallen from the trees (except the oak leaves still hanging on), and an influx of inspiration to being cooking hearty winter…
Things have been very busy around here---hence the lack of updates on this blog! This past week I've been preparing one last dye workshop for next weekend before the winter really kicks in as well as getting work ready for…
Is there a greater way to celebrate the autumn than spending an afternoon in my backyard, along the Wallkill River cooking up natural dyes with a group of wonderful women? Definitely not! Luckily this is how I spent Saturday morning…
What do you get when you combine beautiful fall foliage, plant dyes, warm apple cider, and a (hopefully) sunny day? A workshop this weekend at my home in New Paltz. Join us for a day of dyeing with october plants…
So the Rondout Valley Common Ground Celebration was an amazing success! After a tense early morning of cold rain and fog the percipitation ceased just as I began to drive over the mountain and within an hour the sun was out! I…
Sunday October 14th an amazing and much-appreciated event is taking place in Stone Ridge, New York and I am excited to be teaching an introduction to natural dyes class at two different time slots during the event. The Rondout Valley Common…
This past May, as I graduated from the State University of New York with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking I had the opportunity to show a body of work at the Samuel Dorsky Museum. A years of worth…
I recently finished my first set of little treasure drawings/quilts. The process of doing the drawings, painting them, cutting out all my layers of fabric and paper, hand sewing them together, inserting the backing, and attaching the hanging device on…
in 2008 I had the good fortune to see an exhibit of the quilts of Gee's Bend at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. These beautiful pieces are so strong in both their aesthetics and their history. They embody the idea…