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45 squares of fine wool for patchworkOur price: £14.95Or just £11.95 for our members!A beautiful selection of fine wool and wool/tweed fabrics woven in a Scottish woollen mill for the luxury market.Back in stock: Stack of 4 jottersOur price: £6.00Or just £4.00 for our members!These simple jotter style notebooks are made for us in Glasgow from FSC certified paper.How to make calendula balm instruction bookletOur price: £4.95Or just £3.95 for our members!If you have ever thought about making natural herbal balms but wondered where to begin, then this little book will take you through the whole process in a very simple step by step way.Make your own Bundle dyed silk scarfOur price: £48.00Or just £38.00 for our members!Make your own Patchwork pincushionOur price: £17.95Or just £14.45 for our members!This beautiful star shaped pincushion is a good introduction to English Pieced Patchwork. Natural plant dyed threads: Sample pack YellowOur price: £7.95Or just £6.30 for our members!These same packs of threads are all hand dyed with plants from my garden.Natural plant dyed threads: Sample pack GreysOur price: £7.95Or just £6.30 for our members!These sample packs of threads are all hand dyed with plants from my garden.Plant Dyes: Dried Fig leavesOur price: £8.00Or just £6.40 for our members!Fig leaves are one of my favourite dye materials - they give a warm soft yellow which turns into a mid green when you add iron. These were picked from a fig tree outside my bedroom (which gives far more leaves than fruit) and dehydrated.Plant Dyes: Dried Rosebay Willowherb leavesOur price: £8.00Or just £6.40 for our members!Rosebay Willowherb is chockfull of tannins and gives a very good deep yellow in the dye pot, changing to khaki with the addition of iron. I love the plant and these leaves were gathered from the perennial meadow which surrounds my studio.Plant Dyes: Dried Scabious "Black Pincushion" flowersOur price: £8.00Or just £6.40 for our members!Scabious 'Black pincushion' can be used as a dye - it is very pH sensitive so it is fun to play with altering the colours from pink to teal. It is also not that light fast as a dye - not what I would class as fugitive but I also wouldn't dye anything with it where I wanted the colour to remain the same. I mainly use it as an ingredient in bundle dyeing where it is much more colour fast, use with shredded onion skins for a great gold and blue combination. Plant Dyes: Dried Sweet Cicely leavesOur price: £8.00Or just £6.40 for our members!Sweet Cicely is an amazing dye plant, completely overlooked in most dye books. It grows in shady damp areas and these leaves were all harvested from under the hedges in my dye garden. It gives a zingy greenish yellow on its own and a darker green with iron.Plant Dyes: Dried Tagetes flowersOur price: £8.00Or just £6.40 for our members!Tagetes - otherwise known as French marigolds - really pack a punch in the dye pot giving a beautiful golden yellow on their own and an olive green when mixed with iron.Plant Dyes: Dried Tansy flowersOur price: £8.00Or just £6.40 for our members!Tansy arrived in the perennial meadow here about seven years ago and was one of the first natural dyes that I used. These flowers were harvested from those meadow plants over the summer and dried out.Plant Dyes: Dyer's Chamomile FlowersOur price: £8.00Or just £6.40 for our members!Dyer's Chamomile is one of the few traditional dye plants that I grow. Its bright yellow daisy flowers are very potent - giving a beautiful mid yellow on their own and a soft green with iron. It is also a great colour to overdue with onion skins for a zingy orange.Pre mordanted mini skeins - DK: Set of fiveOur price: £15.00Or just £12.00 for our members!Take the hard work out of botanical dyeing with pre-mordanted skeins of wool.