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Been working on something very different lately. Dyeing is on the back burner and has been for some time. I have no doubt I’ll get back to it at some point! But right now, other activities are claiming the spotlight.

Curly Dock!
These tiny seeds are all dried out and a gorgeous red colour. I’m gathering as much as I can over the next little while in an attempt to make up the weight of a couple skeins of yarn! I’m not sure how far I’ll get, I see this w**d only sporadically.

Luckily, because the seeds are so dry, they should keep for a while and let me gather slowly over the course of a couple weeks. I’m hoping for a pinky orangey colour.

Really proud of my current stock up at the Barntique! There are some really lovely items waiting to be picked up this week and at the Friday Night Sip & Shop!

Today is the last day of my Clearance Sale !

You’ll never see these hand-dyed yarns for $30 again 😂
If you knit or crochet and love nature, come to the Barntique today and snap up these GORGEOUS skeins. I’m making room for some handsewn items and dyed cloth goods!

Well, it’s a new moon tomorrow and the end of my own personal 28 day “I do what I want” challenge.

I finished my self made shirt, made with ‘s Soft Work course!

I stopped following through on the moon phase posts, after a certain point I stopped wanting to and I give myself permission to BE inconsistent, it’s how I roll.

I harvested the horsetail, haven’t yet dyed with it. Looks like yellow instead of pink, oh well.

I hired to do up my logo.

I walked away from OW in order to be in control of what I work on and when.

All in all, a very peaceful and successful month.
Tomorrow, root canal and healing! 😅

I definitely relaxed and took my time this weekend! This post is coming a little late, I had the most social weekend in a while on this date!

Here are my little updates. ☺️

The next couple days are a great time for finishing things up, and I’m aiming to do so! Happy Full Moon in Sagittarius (my sign!).

Horsetail harvest!
I’m hoping for some light dusty pink dye from these feathery plants.

Prime time for picking right now; the ground is moist, there has been hours of sun, and the full moon is tomorrow!

I’ve been thinking a lot about Saturn recently. The planet that rules systems, responsibility, and time itself is retrograde in Aquarius right now. Also I’m smack dab in the middle of my Saturn Return right now (29.5!).

I went to look up the magical connections of horsetail in Cunningham’s encyclopedia of plants and what should the planetary association be, but Saturn.

Magic is real, symbols are powerful and life is strange.

took my hand-drawn logo and turned it into a clean and sharp file for me to use on things like social media, business cards and stamps!

I love my whimsical flower in a cauldron/dye-pot image, I definitely feel that it sums up what I do. 🥰

Looking forward to plastering this image everywhere!

First Quarter Moon in Virgo!
I’m still showing up with these moon posts on my feed, which is a win for me. Anything consistent usually doesn’t last too long around here, but I may have just found a way to make this stick. I feel I should mention that this method even occurred to me by reading Yasmin Boland’s book Moonology

How are your goals and routines going?

Your favourite textile/astrology nerd showing up with some updates and informing!

Some things I’m excited about are a clean logo in the works from as well as getting back to a sewing course by the lovely .

I have been missing sewing things to wear for myself for ages. I started the Soft Work sewing course in February I think, but I couldn’t keep up and eventually felt it wasn’t the right time.

I’m going to give it another shot this month, go really slow and give myself a lot of grace.