Small samples of yarn I dyed with indigo, madder root, and turmeric.
June, 2022
More black and khaki handwoven dish
towels coming soon...
May, 2022
Growing some little seedlings for natural dye plants. Indigo, coreopsis and chamomile, with seeds I bought from this lovely Etsy shop below:
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method."
-- Herman Melville
"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change."
-- Buddha
Natural dyeing with madder root.
May, 2022
I think it's time for some random natural beauty, for a change.
May, 2022
Dyeing some cotton and linen in a blend of indigo and alkanet root.
April, 2022
You really haven't lived until you've spent a morning photographing....dish towels. ;)
Some simple checked towels in navy blue and khaki coming soon.
February, 2022
February, 2022
Sometimes less is just....enough.
Handwoven nettle
January, 2022
More black and tan Log Cabin towels coming soon, hopefully. These take forever to weave!
January, 2022
A few gray and white table runners coming soon...
January, 2022
Doing some block printing on linen for a bit of a change. Looks like I kinda ran with the Valentine's Day theme, eh? ;)
January, 2022
Playing around with the classic Log Cabin weaving draft. Hope to soon add some towels and runners to my shop.
January, 2022
More muted seaglass towels coming soon...
December, 2021
Well, darn...I had really hoped to have lots more handwoven items in my shop for the holidays, but once again, Real Life got in the way!
Wishing you all a very happy holiday season! I am so lucky to have the loveliest customers on earth! Thank you!
- Donna
December, 2021
"What you leave behind is not what is engraved on stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."
-- Pericles
Winter is coming. Time to get the wool out. ;)
November, 2021
What to do with all the things you find and keep from nature? Weave them, of course! Adding some natural fiber art pieces to my shop...
October, 2021
Handwoven throw pillows. (what can I say? It's been a loooong year...) :)
February, 2021
Coming soon...some natural linen/cotton twill runners with rust and charcoal stripes.
February, 2021
Weaving a few more twill cotton dish towels in rust, charcoal and taupe.
January, 2021
Lovely linen...
January, 2021
Happy Holidays! Wishing you good health and better days in the New Year. Thank you so very much for your support!
Coming soon...some holiday runners with dark red stripes on a creamy white background.
November, 2020
Bold colors being woven into a traditional boundweave pattern.
Fall, 2020
Weaving wool for winter....
September, 2020
Botanical dyeing of woven fabric scraps and cotton yarn, with wild black raspberries from my back yard.
July, 2020
Cotton yarn dyed with wild black raspberries.
July, 2020
Winding a warp onto the loom for some handwoven dish towels...
May, 2020
...because sometimes you just have to go play with sticks and strings...
A simple escape from these rather crazy times (!)...
April, 2020
Winding a new warp onto my loom...
Something simple...
March, 2020
Experimenting with perfectly imperfect hand-spun cotton.
January, 2020
Winter is for...weaving! (and wishing I always had this kind of sunlight in my studio...)
December, 2019
Re-creating the weave of an antique grain sack.
October, 2019
Borrowing from the look of vintage hand woven table linens...
June, 2019
Playing around with treadling on a traditional Swedish twill pattern...
May, 2019
Happy Spring!
March, 2019
Weaving charcoal gray soft cotton dish towels...
December, 2018
Happy Holidays! And thank you for a wonderful year - I truly have the nicest customers!
December, 2018
An orchestra of strings...
September, 2018
A step back in time...rustic hand woven linen.
June, 2018
Maybe it's just me, but there's something so calming about cloth on the loom...
March, 2018
Nordic runners coming soon!
February, 2018
Christmas morning, Christmas towels I'd meant to give as gifts...if only they'd gotten done on time. Ah...life!
Merry Christmas, 2017!
A failed experiment, but pretty nevertheless...German Bird's Eye.
August, 2017
Nettle yarn washed and hanging out to dry, soon to be woven into some (very!) rustic table runners.
July, 2017
Handwoven cotton dish towels in light gray, charcoal and terracotta coming soon!
July, 2017
Weaving Krokbragd in earth tones now...
May, 2017
Threading the reed on my loom to weave some simple taupe and white striped farmhouse table runners.
April, 2017
Working on the agonizingly slow process of weaving Norwegian Krokbragd. (Ugh. What was I thinking?!)
April, 2017
Soon to be taupe and white striped table runners.
March, 2017
One step among many in the process: winding the warp onto the loom.
March, 2017
Trying something new - salmon, mocha, charcoal and tan in a classic twill pattern.
March, 2017
Recently finished...pale gray table runners with navy blue stripes.
February, 2017
Natural cotton-linen blend runners on the loom...
January, 2017
