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Cupboard full of BFL/silk, Gotland and Massam blends
Visiting Jane to meet the boys and girls providing my Shetland DK base
Experimenting with John Arbon’s lovely Devonia base
Skeining up some gorgeous local Shetland and Laxton’s BFL/Masham 
Dye pot inspector no. 1 with fennel flowers
Onion skins, logwood, old fustic and brazil wood on beautiful Shetland wool from a farm near Modbury, Devon
Onion skins, old fustic and Saxon Blue on the same Shetland base
Scrummy BFL/Massam 
Sue’s poppy petals that gave a beautiful blue in an alkaline dye bath
Dandelions from the garden
Dandelions experimentalist skeins
Choosing colours for my Odyssey shawl by Joji Locatelli
Dyed with Saxon blue and onion skins
Cones from Shaugh Prior woods
Lovely delicate hues from avocado and fern head dye baths
A selection of lichen dyes on Polworth/silk top
Bruce inspecting the lavender cotton flower from the garden
Lavender cotton flower giving a fantastic yellow especially for overdyeing
Natural dye palette inspired by Anni Albers exhibition at Tate Modern
Shadecard for Anni Albers inspired designs
Experimenting with petals and roots from the garden last summer
Dyeing with acorns from David and Kathy’s house on Dartmoor
Dyeing with Saxon blue at Kathy’s 
Dye day with Kathy and Stacey
Solar dyeing with lichens in ammonia
Dyeing with rosemary and fennel from the garden, along with lichens and avocado skins
Trying out some extracts in winter
Painting merino/silk with lac and madder
Skeins dyed with avocado, nettle, onion and pomegranate
Skeins dyed with oak, Saxon blue and pomegranate
Skeins dyed with Saxon blue and nettle
All these skeins were dyed from 100g of pomegranate rinds using various overdyes
Madder dyed skeins in the autumn light
Fridge full of liquors from summer collecting
Teign Poncho by Ella Austin in my BFL/Gotland base dyed with madder
Brazil wood, madder and lac
Skeining up 
Devonia arrival
My Odyssey shawl
Testing skeins for hot and cold mordanting results – hot on the left producing slightly brighter colours on the Devonia
Painting skeins for mini sets
Holiday souvenirs – acorns from Cadaques, cone from Girona
