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The Modern Natural Dyer Work-Along: The Field and Forest Dress

For the month of July, the focus of The Modern Natural Dyer Work-Along is The Field and Forest Dress. This is one of my favorite projects in the book! I always enjoy sewing a new dress, and this p...
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The Modern Natural Dyer Work-Along: Indigo Reveal

The most-anticipated moment with shibori and indigo dyeing is the moment you remove the object creating your resist (binding, stitching, clamps, etc), and reveal the design underneath! With indigo ...
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The Modern Natural Dyer Work-Along: Pathways to the Fishbone Tank

Happy summer everyone! As you may know, Kristine and Adrienne recently visited New Hampshire and are currently exploring the beautiful country of Iceland, experiencing the deep-rooted wool culture...
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The Modern Natural Dyer Work-Along: Flowers at My Fingertips Sewing Kit

Walk into your own front yard, wander through your garden, and at your fingertips there very well could be dye plants growing. May's Modern Natural Dyer Work-Along project is the Flowers at My Fi...
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The Modern Natural Dyer Work-Along: Depth, Texture, and Layers of Natrurally-Dyed Color with Alabama Chanin

  The typical pathway of creating an Alabama Chanin piece is to choose a sewing pattern, cut the fabric for the sewing pattern, stencil the fabric, layer the stenciled fabric over the a piece of no...
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The Modern Natural Dyer Work-Along: Fashion Revolution

This past weekend, I held a class helping people dye their own Gilded Cardigan and Iron Age Tank, a project from The Modern Natural Dyer. As you may know The Modern Natural Dyer includes shade car...
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The Modern Natural Dyer Work-Along: Printing with Flowers + Alabama Chanin

Last Summer, Natalie Chanin of Alabama Chanin visited Verb, which is a cause for celebration. We invited the Verb community to gather and and to share in her company. There were many beautiful han...
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The Modern Natural Dyer Work-Along: Iron Age Tank and Gilded Cardigan

When I began to write The Modern Natural Dyer, I could not wait to somehow incorporate the work of Alabama Chanin. I received the opportunity to meet Natalie Chanin, the founder, about four years ...
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The Modern Natural Dyer Work-Along: Sandstone Shawl

For the month of March, as part of The Modern Natural Dyer Work-Along, we are focusing on the Sandstone Shawl. When setting out the lessons I wanted to teach through The Modern Natural Dyer, I des...
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The Modern Natural Dyer Work-Along: The Wanderlust Bag

It's February - which means our focus is now upon making The Wanderlust Bag from The Modern Natural Dyer! Now that we have discussed how to create naturally-dyed colors through the use of a single...
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The Modern Natural Dyer Work-Along: January Wrap-Up

Wow! Here we are at the end of January! Which also means we have completed month one of The Modern Natural Dyer Work-Along. Here's a recap: This month, I set out to create and complete two projects...
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The Modern Natural Dyer Work-Along: Naturally Dyeing Cotton Socks

Wow! Here we are in Week 3 of The Modern Natural Dyer Work-Along! The focus of this week's work is the project Sock Hop. I think of Sock Hop as the sister project to the Northwoods Hat. When writi...