Cedarwood & Linen Studio

06/10/2026

Just some natural color on 100% linen currently curing. 🥰

06/09/2026

We have made an adjustment to the summer schedule.
After pushing too hard this Spring, I find myself struggling to recover fully. Travel is extra challenging even on the good days, so we will not be attending the show in IL later this month. While it is disappointing, hopefully this will allow time to recover, as well as prep for the super busy fall season. Very excited to be at Sugar Creek Flower Farm & Craftery on August 1! That one is right here near home! 🥰.

06/04/2026

Upgrade to 40 gallon Tannin & Mordant Baths…hopefully this will allow even dyeing of 3 continuous yards of fabric in each batch. So far, we have 2 going pretty well. The dye pots can handle more but this was the missing piece. 🤞. Can I even lift 3 yards of wet linen to turn it? Good question! 😂😂🤦‍♀️

06/02/2026

Excited!!

Flowerfest 2026 is right around the corner at only 2 months away! This is our biggest event of the year that you do not want to miss out on! Pick flowers, shop at over 40 unique vendors, sign up for tons of giveaways, live music, food trucks, snow cones, you name it, Flowerfest has it! Get your friends together and add it to your calendar 🩵

06/01/2026

A Sleepy Tree Frog in the dye pot. I feel like there is a deeper meaning here. 😂. The joys of working in an outdoor kitchen in the wilderness. Fun fact…I LOVE frogs and don’t need that particular pot today so it’s just a little thing that makes me happy…..watching it snooze while I work. 😊

05/31/2026

“Weeds” in the garden can be treasures for the dye pot. In many cases, they are also very nutritious and even medicinal, which always leaves me wondering…”when/why/how did we decide it was a useless weed?” A topic for another day! 😂.
This afternoon, I enjoyed a little back porch time sorting through a pan of Sorrel I took from the garden while tidying up (I really don’t call it “weeding” anymore as most everything that gets removed has some value as God surely intended). This will be my second batch of Sorrel dye experiments this season and certainly not the last. Leaving a patch of it to go to seed and compare outcomes. Yes, hopefully a blog post at some point…but for now just experimenting and documenting. Happy Beautiful Sunday!

05/29/2026

Finishing up for the week and wrapping up the last of the custom orders. Lots to do in the gardens this weekend. 🥰

05/28/2026

It’s a slow process here….sew a seam, press a seam, finish a seam, press again. Intentional slow living, includes working slowly & intentionally.

05/27/2026

Marigold, Iron & Indigo

05/27/2026

Took a quick look at some of the yarn this morning. Much work still to be done, improvements to make in the processes, more colors to work on, but I want this round of experiments to dry completely and cure out first. So far, so good, aside from waiting daaaays for it to dry 😂.
This is all Naturally Dyed 100% Linen Yarn. All a work in process.