Welcome to your new favourite hobby! Botanical printing is so fun that once you start you won't be able to stop. It's surprisingly simple to get stunning results every time. Take a look at my simple step by step guide.
I've done a fair bit of indigo dyeing using the powdered, pre-reduced indigo and have always found it completely magical, and pretty simple to achieve beautiful results. This year, I asked my friends Glynis and Fraser of Aldergrove Farm to grow some fresh indigo for me, so I could try to take the process all the way back to the source (as well as use certified organic indigo). So, in late September, I picked up a big ol' bag of Japanese Indigo (Polygonum tinctorium) from them at the farmer's market and set to work. Below, I'll share the method I used to extract the indigo and make a dye vat, as well as several stumbling blocks I experienced along the...
My garden is one of my favourite places, where I get inspiration and energy to prepare for each years knitting season. I love to grow a huge variety of edibles, and cram 'just one more thing' in every last nook and cranny. I also plant pollinator friendly ornamentals, and take immense pleasure in noting each new species that visits.
Here's a little timelapse of how it's grown so far this year:
I always find it hard to believe, most of it started off the season as a patch of bare earth!
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