Combining locally sourced, botanically dyed wool with natural cotton to weave larger sized blankets

Loop of the Loom organic cotton, woven in natural white, hand dyed indigo, and hand dyed cochineal.

Incorporating dried flowers from my garden into woven linen panels.

Waffle weave draft with botanically dyed alpaca as warp and weft

Experimenting with botanically dyeing small skeins of New Zealand rug wool, perfect for weaving rugs with a lot of nice tonal variations.

My favorite woven cotton blanket so far! A labor of love, it took a long time to hand dye all of the warps and yardage for the weft. I love the texture once the finished project was washed and dried.

Weaving with locally sourced knitting yarn in natural colors

Autumn exploring around Harrisville and Cranberry Meadow Farm Inn

Melding weaving, quilting, and botanically dyeing into larger pieces of functional art.

Showing all of the messy edges and seams, quilting with vintage botanically dyed French cottons and linens

Utilizing different colors of silk sari scraps with an overshot weaving draft

My latest knitting pattern, designed for Knitting for Olive's gorgeous yarn shades and textures.

Chunky afghan crocheted with natural organic cotton

Vintage fabric from Japan, backed with hand woven linen.

Weaving with Junction Fiber Mill’s variegated, multi-hued yarns

Woven with silk noil that I hand dyed with Saxon Blue indigo.

A quilt inspired by a sashiko-stitched boro fabric purchased at a Paris flea market.

Summer recreating in uncrowded western Maine.

At a recent Harrisville Designs weaving workshop, I used 30 colors of Shetland in both warp and weft to create a warm, lightweight color gamp blanket. By weaving double weave, I was able to double the width of the 36” loom and create a blanket with a finished width of 54” after wet blocking and fulling.