Icelandic poppies. Their papery translucent petals are the stuff dreams are made of. Like a crushed silk dress that slowly unfurls, there is something so romantic and yet exciting about their delicate petals.
They were, also for three years, my nemesis. For three years, I've tried to germinate thousands of seeds, and every single time, I have failed. Not a single flower to show for my attempts, I had to purchase my plants in.
Read MoreAs we mentioned previously, natural dyeing is quite a bit of trial and error when it comes to good usable colors that affix well to silk.
There are a lot of supposed plants and materials that allegedly make certain colors, but not a lot of them come true to color. For instance, generating an actual green dye is practically impossible for us - sources all seem to lead to disappointing shades of brown.
Brown shades and orange/yellow shades are plentiful in the natural world, with greens, blacks, and true blues being far rarer. Luckily, we’ve compiled a list of natural dye colors and sources that you can use to create your own silk ribbon dyes = all from natural sources, some available in your garden or flower farm!
Read MoreAs we mentioned in our previous post, we stumbled upon dyeing our own silk ribbons quite by accident, and have learned quite a bit by trial and error along the way.
There unfortunately aren’t a lot of resources out there on dyeing silk ribbon, so we put together our process of how we dye our silk ribbons.
Historically speaking, dye sources have been difficult and rare items.
We as humans have been obsessed with color - more than likely due to the fact that we needed to quickly identify color when hunting and gathering in order to pick out brightly colored fruits and flowers that signalled food sources as well as to watch out for poisonous animals that might display certain colors.
Interestingly enough, it’s a proven fact that women have more color receptors in their eyes than men, possibly due to the fact that evolutionarily-speaking, women may have done more of the gathering and therefore needed better color vision to spot the fruits and vegetables that they would have to locate and harvest.
Read MoreWith a new year comes new inspiration for many things - and among those things is the inspiration for our garden.
We know you’re probably thinking of your garden too - after the holidays, it’s go-time for the garden for us - so we wanted to share some of our favorite inspiration for our garden designs.
Autumn is our favorite time of year for many reasons, but our most favorite reason is because of the floral arrangements that we can make now! After months and months of sunflowers and dahlias and summery arrangements, it’s now time for autumnal arrangements. I’m talking grasses, seedheads, deep bold colored flowers with burgundy, bronze, gold, rust and pumpkin shades of colors that we’ve been waiting all year long to use.
We wanted to share some of our favorites for this time of year with you, so let’s get this list started with our favorite:
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