🍃🪵✨ Woodland Wednesday ✨🪵🍃

🍃🪵✨ Woodland Wednesday ✨🪵🍃

The dye pots have been bubbling and working overtime over here…🧪

Mossy greens, shadowy emeralds, deep indigos, moody purples, and little color shifts that only happen when I slow down and work in small batches

Appalachian Folk Craft

I’ve finally settled into a dye process that’s been giving me rich, layered colors I really love lately

I use:
🧪 Rit Dye 
🧪 Rit Dyemore 
🧪 Jacquard Acid Dyes 
🧪 Citric acid 
🧪 A light spray of Palmolive 
🧪 And usually a tiny squirt of lemon juice 🍋 because somehow it just feels correct 😅

Sometimes I use the dyes separately…sometimes I layer and combine them depending on the tones I’m after

I’ve learned I personally prefer working in smaller dye batches. It gives me more control over saturation, gradients, and those tiny color shifts that make each broom feel alive ✨ Every bundle gets a little more attention instead of getting lost in a giant vat

This week’s woodland favorite is 🌿 Poplar Root 🌿

In Appalachian folklore, poplar root is sometimes called “witch wood” because it grows between worlds…buried beneath the earth while still feeding the living tree above. We had a terrible ice storm here last year causing 2 large trees to tumble in the back so for now I have LOTS of poplar to work with

Witch wood is considered a liminal wood…tied to thresholds, transformation, hidden things, and deep-rooted protection

The longer I work with it, the more I understand why people believed there was something special about it 💫

Weird Woods

And somewhere in the middle of all the woodland greens…a Blue Moon is beginning to take shape too 🌕💙

Blue Moon Clay Face

New brooms are slowly forming over here, just the way I like it….slow and steady 🧹✨

💚 Which color combination are you most drawn to lately?