Frieda Strachan Studio

Having so much fun in my back yard with natural dye.

These will eventually be pieced together to make some patchwork drapes for our bedroom and spare room, but for now, I'm gonna leave them on the washing line ~as long as possible~ so I can enjoy them blowing in the wind.

The grey is Oak Gall, and the orange and yellow is madder root. Two of these batches were just dunked in cold, leftover dye baths while I went to work, and I love how it still created some cool patterns.

Ok. So the peg loom rug didn't look right in our wee hallway (and the door caught on it because it's so chunky) time for a NEW PLAN!
#2 on my homemaker agenda was originally supposed to be some tufted bench cushions for our dining table - that's now going to be project #3. I still need to get this hallways adorned. It's Project Mak a Hoose a Hame after all.

In 2020/21 I started making tufted drip rugs (if you bought one, PLEASE show me where it lives now), and last year I made a few that I didn't really do anything with. So in place of the rug that's had to move out of the hallway, I'm going to make a couple of drip rugs, like this neon one from last year, to sit in the hallway. I always worry about using wool in my tufting machine, especially since it's so expensive here... but I have a tonne, and I need to actually start using it!

Our hallways is long, but thin, and I'm thinking one by the bedroom door under a wall cabinet, and one dripping out from the hallway, under a door and into the spare room. Ambitious? Maybe. Mostly concerned I'll find all the piece of my tufting frame after moving studios