Category Archives: brown onion as dye

Contemporary Quilts: The Challenge to Make a Point

Posted on October 11, 2022 by Margaret Ford

Bear with me, this is a long and indulgent blog. At a recent meeting of the Contemporary Quilt Group (contemporarywa.wordpress.com/about/) of the Western Australian Quilters’ Association (https://www.waquilters.com) our speaker issued a challenge. After a thoughtful presentation to us all about … Continue reading →

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Brown Onion Dip

Posted on February 7, 2020 by Margaret Ford

A new blog is well overdue but I’m not very productive or innovative at the moment so I am sharing something I did two nights ago after seeing a new you tube video from “Rebecca from Chemknits“:   The first … Continue reading →

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Natural Dyeing from the Greengrocer

Posted on June 12, 2018 by Margaret Ford

Artistic inspiration, always an elusive commodity for me, has left the building over the past week.  It’s rainy and cold: it’s soup weather here in Western Australia. So my inner Earth Mother must have kicked in.  Why not add a … Continue reading →

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