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My phone number, my grandma’s office number, my aunt’s job number. But it took me about 10 years to finally memorize my husband’s number- and I only did it because it’s the supermarket account number🤣

A lovely afternoon at Watanabe’s Tokushima. I am grateful for their sharing of tradition & history of Aizome, their sukumo indigo farm and processing tour, & an immersive experience with new friends. I dyed a shibori piece I prepared & left with a stunning textile, joyful smile, & stained hands.

Many of my favorite poems were not originally written in English. Poetry crosses language barriers.

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

#textileart #Indigo #shibori #naturaldyed #surfacedesign #artisantextiles #handmadefabric #handmadetextiles #slowcraft #fiberartist #sacramentoartists #sacramentomakers #norcalartists #bayareadesign

This beautiful Taka Ishii Shibori 04 pattern was learned with love from awonoyoh 💕 I decided to use a large piece of linen for this project, which was a fun and worthwhile challenge.

Day 5 of zenstitching
Sashiko Stitch Challenge #naturaldye #sashiko

Day 4 of zenstitching
Sashiko Stitch Challenge #naturaldye #sashiko

Day 3 of zenstitching
Sashiko Stitch Challenge #naturaldye #sashiko

Day 2 of zenstitching
Sashiko Stitch Challenge. Using a cotton piece I dyed with cochineal and then overdyed in ferrous. #naturaldye #sashiko

2 different ways of dyeing with fresh Indigo. A: blended Indigo with ice water & then strained. B: Indigo leaves (whole), salt, & minimal ice water. Massaged linen with mixtures for 10 minutes & then oxidized for 5. Method A gave a greenish tone, B gave a blueish tone #naturaldye #Indigo

Preparing linen strips for Indigo dyeing. This baby lock (permanently ‘borrowed’ from my husband 😅) has been one of the most helpful tools in my studio.

🙏 You can mix dye materials to get different colors. I love weld as a vibrant primary yellow and wanted to make an orange with it. I used madder & weld in equal ratios to achieve this color. I also have another piece with cochineal & weld- which gave me a little more of an earthy orange 🍊

Starting a new Bojagi piece. First squares are linen natural dyed with weld and madder #naturaldye

Learning a new #shibori technique 💙 Step 1: hand draw parallel lines every 1/2” on my 45” x 54” linen piece 🙃

Just keep stitching. Just keep stitching. #shibori 🐠

We’re not sure who needs to hear this, but ‘blueberry’ has two b’s.

Learning a new #Shibori technique 🪡

3 of 4 hand sewn double rolled edges completed on my cochineal Bojagi textile piece 💗 #bojagi #naturaldye #cochineal

Hand sewing a double rolled edge on my cochineal Bojagi textile piece. Excited to almost finish, and already planning more pieces 💙 #bojagi #naturaldye #cochineal

He honestly looks like he needs to drink more water, cut out the red meat, and buy a new mirror.

Working on eco dyed dinner napkins using onion skins, shallots, logwood, eucalyptus, golden marguerite, sequoia, weld, and buckthorn 💙 #naturaldye

Thank you so much! I am happy with the result and have found the process soothing and possibly hypnotic 😆

Today’s progress on my Cochineal linen Bojagi ❤️ #naturaldye #cochineal #bojagi

Happy with my progress today on this Cochineal dyed linen Bojagi piece. Love how the light shines through 🥰 #naturaldyed #cochineal #bojagi

My color range of Cochineal at various tannin and alum steeping times & ferrous sulfate color shifts on handwoven linen 💕 #naturaldye #cochineal

I learned that in Bojagi, each stitch represents a wish that you sent to someone. I think this is such a beautiful practice, and with every stitch I have the joy of thinking of someone I love and sending them health & happiness💙 #naturaldye

You can technically do anything once. Be brave, I believe in you 💙