They can be a bit tricky. I extract them in several batches (fresh water, same avocado pits), and over several days, heating and letting cool a few times to let the dye oxidize. Making the dye bath a bit alkaline also helps with pinker pinks. I also use the skins along with the pits.

Made myself a pair of summer pants from a vintage linen bed sheet found in my grandma's house, and dyed them with onion skins from my garden. How's that for sustainable fashion? 😆
Second picture taken by my ten year old, from up in my family's favourite climbing tree. 🌳

Finished this #greenleaf sweater just in time for spring. Getting to wear it is a nice consolation prize for the return of wintery temperatures and icy winds here in Manitoba.

Made these little table cloths as gifts for my grandma and great-aunt. Vintage linen bedding from their houses, printed with leaves and flowers from my garden!

#ecoprinting #ecoprint #ecoprintingonfabric #naturaldye #plantdye #plantdyed

Still working on this idea I've been dreaming up. It reflects some of the architectural features of my neighbourhood, and I'm hoping it will all come together by the fall.

#linocut #linoprint #blockprint #blockprinting

Pickle print duo looking appropriately wholesome in its thrifted frame.

#blockprinting #blockprint #linocut #linocutprint #pickles

A February batch of avocado dye. I'm not normally much of a fan of pink, but how could you not love it when brown shrivelly things that were destined for the compost give you a colour like this? Avocado pits and skins have won me over.
#plantdye #naturaldye #avocadodye

Hopefully this will be part of a bigger project eventually, but for now it's just a fun print of my neighbourhood.

#linocut #linocutprint #blockprint #blockprinting

Organic cotton bandanas, dyed with homegrown sulfur cosmos last summer, and printed with pine cone linocuts this winter.

Beautiful avocado pit & skin dye colour.
#naturaldye #avocadodye #plantdye

Not much else to do. Community and creativity to stave off the hopelessness!

This year's first batch of eco-printed tea towels, fresh out of the dye pot & drying.
#ecoprint #ecoprinting #naturaldye #plantdye #leafprint #homegrowncolour

Getting out the dried treasures of summer to eco-print with on this super cold day.

Very tiny work in progress.

#Linocut #blockprint #blockprinting

Yup.

Bluejay messenger bag with an extra interior picked as per special request. Dyed with Christmas tree branches, indigo and onion skins, and printed with my bluejay linocut.

#naturaldye #plantdye #linocut #blockprintonfabric #manitobamade #winnipegartist

I would be happy to be added--thanks!

Some new chickadee pouches. Dyed with Christmas tree branches on the tree side, and homegrown indigo on the sky side. Printed with my chickadee linocut.

#linocut #naturaldye #plantdye #blockprintonfabric #blockprint

By way of introduction on this new platform with the idyllic name... here is a linocut I made a couple of months ago that touches on a few things I like a lot:
-Printmaking (duh).
-Gathering stuff when I'm out on a walk.
-A good, homegrown food stash!