Thread: Organically dyed quilts

​I don't trust home dyed fabrics not to bleed and at those prices? nope.

Cool site! Take a minute and look at her blog. She gets those dyes by actually going into the woods and cutting down certain types of trees. This is a beautiful artform and not one most of us would try...it's too easy to go to the quilt shop. She also has done a good job with inserting thoughtful bits into her quilts, such as the odd couple of blocks in GA.
If I had the expendable income, I'd support her work.
Look at Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr...they have done custom quilts for customers for years and there are those who would/could happily pay for such beauty.
Thanks for the post!

My sister uses organic dyes to overdye her wool for her hooked rugs. She's so good at it, her wool is sold at several LQS around Ohio to use in quilts, rugs, felting, etc. She buys her wool fabric by the bolt. Some are light color tweeds, stripes, plaids, light color solids, etc. She boils the wool, then dyes it. She has made some beautiful fabric. She's used walnut husks, onion skins, bark, etc. to make some of her dyes.