Monthly Archive: September 2021

Nine nines

I stitched a few one-inch squares every morning. Then I stitched them into strips of three. Then stitched three strips of three into nine-patches. Very satisfying and before I knew it, I had nine....

Modernist smocking

I learned this smocking technique from Annie Coggan, in an online class offered by Tatter Blue Library. Easy to do and makes quite a dimensional piece of fabric. Drawing the grid on the fabric...

Tiny indigo harvest

I was feeling embarrassed about my neglected dye garden and was continuing to ignore it. But an Instagram account I follow posted about her experiments dyeing little pieces of cloth with a small amount...

Late summer dyeing

My blogs were down for awhile. I changed something that had a drastic effect and it has taken awhile to get back to posting. My gardening blog is still not working right, in fact....