Chris McLaughlin is a California garden writer and author who has been gardening for over 35 years and became a Master Gardener in 2000. She is the home agriculture editor for From Scratch magazine, a staff columnist at Vegetable Gardener.com, and the Homesteading Guide at About.com. Chris' work can also be found in Urban Farm, Hobby Farm Home, The Heirloom Gardener, The Herb Companion, and Fine Gardening magazines. She is the author of "Vertical Vegetable Gardening", "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Small-Space Gardening", "Hobby Farms: Small-Scale Rabbit Keeping", "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Heirloom Vegetables", and "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Composting"; and her latest: "A Garden to Dye For". Chris and her family live in the foothills of Northern California's gold country, where they share their hobby farm with more critters than she'll admit to; including a handful of fiber animals and a rather large assortment of natural dye plants. When she's not writing, gardening, dyeing, hand-spinning, feeding critters, or chasing grandbabies, she's touching base at her community project, The Mother Lode Seed Library in Placerville, California. You can catch her blogging about modern homesteading and crafts at www.home-ag.com.
If you love the outdoors and creating, we found your new favorite
book: A Garden to Dye For: How to Use Plants from the Garden to
Create Natural Colors for Fabrics and Fibers by Chris McLaughlin!
Of course, one can argue that natural plant-based dyes are as
traditional as it gets. But in the modern world, ready-made
synthetic dyes have become the norm. It’s so easy to step into a
craft store and find a rainbow of powdered and liquid dyes.
However, if you’re a crafty person who appreciates nature, this
title is for you. Even if you don’t have a green thumb, her book
provides enough guidance and encouragement to get you going. And if
you do? It’s an amazing, informative encyclopedia that’s sure to
become a staple in your garden.
*Kirsten Nunez*
If you are a keen gardener and a nervous would-be-dyer, interested
in safe natural dyeing project to do with children, then this fun
and attractive book will help you select a few plants, get
necessary equipment together, mordant if necessary, and start
dyeing using cold water, hot water or solar dyeing methods.
This is an inspiring, and distinctive book. Every homesteader,
homeschooler, crafter, gardener, educator, and fibre artist owes it
to themselves to grab this book and a cup of chai and breathe
deeply of the inspiration, joy, and stimulation that exudes from
every page. The book is aesthetically beautiful as if each page was
dipped in a dye vat and then salted to spray the colour, like
elderberry blossoms, across the page
*joybileefarm*
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