Since my last post in April my personal world has been reshaping itself at a gallop. That's a nod to things which need general acknowledgment. (dear friends, sorry to be so cryptic! that's all that can be said here. but you know...)
Here's a whirlwind look around!
Ezra just started the afternoon kindy at the neighborhood school. And I started working again.
I recently fell in love with this poetic beautiful soul; it was unrequited. And my heart is broke. =(
The garden has been left to its own wild devices. We just watch.
Sidge pretending the danish cabbage is her wedding bouquet. We then made sauerkraut.
Just as I slaughtered the last of 2014's pumpkins...
...Sidge picked the first of this year's pumpkins.
The ladies
Ezra and neighborhood friends hanging out on the front porch.
Made a magic bag for a friend who needed...magic.
And fiber arts days!!! We have a core group of about five adults and four kids roaming the countryside looking for natural dye plants and then experimenting back at the cottage.
Harvesting dock root for dyeing.
Chloe is teaching us how to make moccasins from local elk leather.
Set up the community loom outside.
My swatch is so
warped...hahaha- the language of textile arts, kinda love how those words and sayings infiltrate our contemporary language. Every time I hear someone say "darn it" i think of how sunk i feel about holes in my handknit socks. hahaha.
I love Angell's open weave
Ezra gently submerging wool into a plant dye bath.
Tyler is flipping us off as he puts the skins of perennial onions in the dye pot.
beautiful #fibershed homegrown onion skins.
Ezra loves helping make batts with the drum carder. This wool was dyed with tansy flowers.
Beautiful people helping mordant 14 pounds of Suffolk wool. And confession, after asking around for advice and reading online the answers about mordanting in this galvanized steel trough are mixed- shooting from the hip and experimenting over here.
Letting our mordanted wool dry at the gypsy caravan- which is our #utahhighdesertfibershed headquarters. =)
Tyler teaching Ella how to spin.
Local slate canyon harvesting rabbit brush for dyeing.
Sunflower and rabbitbrush dye baths.
Dyer's Woad! Gathered 11 pounds of it!
Just hanging out in the garden
And still doing homeschool with these cool boys (when Ez isn't at the neighborhood school)
handwork, foraging, cooking
spending as much time as possible touching crags.
prepping to cast seeds for fall crops in the front jungle
Love and besos,
Quel
