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HELLO from the studio! The door is open!

& yay for scarf season!!

First day in operation and I have been BUSY!
This has been a dream of mine for so long, and it’s actually a reality now, so surreal 🥹
Immensely grateful to every one of you that’s helped to make this happen. The support, encouragement, donations, shares, pre-sales, and purchases.

This space exists because of my lil community of wool and linen lovers. You guys 🥹

There is so much more to come

Keep watching this space friends 🌸
Megan

#handwoven #woolandlinen #studioooo

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I’ve been in contact with Hala for quite some time now and she is so lovely! Her family have been through so much, and are still going through it. Having to be a bit vague so that the computers reading this don’t get upset at me and hide this post from you, but by now I’m sure you all know exactly what the ‘it’ that they’ve been going through is. Gosh that last sentence sounded quite conspiracy-ish. Comment your favourite silly conspiracy!

You can help them out by contributing directly to them, or through getting yourself my knitting pattern - the Pōhutukawa Wreath Socks in December. Sharing and commenting or otherwise giving this post some attention also helps. Thank you so much for your support!

Full ID in pinned comments Text and photos about the Mahdi family. Full info in pinned comment.

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I'm having a real 'natural fibres' moment and I am so here for it!!

Featuring @haunuiwool carded by @wanderandstitch - the first two skeins are made from their fibre and I'm obsessed with how squishy and soft it is!!!

The third skein is from some hand-processed corriedale that also has my whole heart 🤎 I can't wait to process the rest of that fleece! It is super VM heavy though so it will take me a while 🫠

#haunuiwool #haunui #handspun #handspunyarn #nzwool

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I decided to switch my projects for a couple of knitalongs to make more sense (to me at least 😆).

I remembered that I had half a ball of this touch yarns possum merino from @theknitnook. It’s labelled an 8ply, but I thought it would knit as a really snuggly 4ply. So, I’ve paired it with a mini for a 2-colour sea glass hat! I’m already obsessing over how these two yarns look together, seeing each row develop is so exciting 😄

Knit along: #sweaterweathermakealong
Pattern: #seaglasshat free from @wool.and.pine.designs
Yarns: Possum Merino 8ply from @touchyarnsnz @theknitnook and an advent mini from @mamawooling

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Back at it again with the colourwork hats! Using the structure of the Blomstra hat pattern with my own colourwork charts. And my hand spun which was haunui from @wanderandstitch; a delight to spin and knit with! Thank you Charlotte!

ID: The brim of a half-knitted beanie; it's light brown with dark brown colourwork in a botanical leafy pattern. It's sitting on a wooden table The brim of a half-knitted beanie; it's light brown with dark brown colourwork in a botanical leafy pattern

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These are haunui wool carded up by @wanderandstitch! They were a delight to spin; wonderfully soft, but with a nice staple length. I'm thinking another Blomstra beanie?

ID: Two skeins of sport weight wool; one is light brown and the other is a dark rich brown. They both have a bit of variation in the colour. They're sitting on a stone table. Wish you could touch them!! Two skeins of sport weight wool; one is light brown and the other is a dark rich brown

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This is massive!!!! We raised $6000 from the generous patrons of Chch city 🥳🥳🥳 the arts foundation topped this up to $11,000 through the crowd funding platform @boosted.nz 🙏🙏🙏 This central studio will be a place to buy locally made soft-textile art and fashion. A place to exchange fabrics, a place to collaborate. We will be hosting our exhibition there this December!!! Watch this space #fortheartists #slowtextiles #remade #reduce #recreate #handcraft #sewing #design #fibre #knit #weave #crochet #walk

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We are fundraising for this amazing space to host our sustainable textile initiative! A space for emerging designers and students of soft-textiles. Match fund of $5,000, doubles your donation, $5 becomes $10! Share with your art patrons 🙏🦋 boosted.org.nz - walklightly workshop (link in bio)

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Support, share, comment!!! We have been putting together a pitch for a WALK studio in central Ōtautahi!!! A space to exhibit sustainable soft-textiles, collaborate, re-make, and sell on behalf of students and emerging designers 🔥🔥🔥 a link to donate is in our homepage bio xxx

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Planting hopes like seeds for the coming year

'Free Range' curated by @cherylucasceramics opens tomorrow (wednesday 28th August) at @thenational_nz

5:30pm, all welcome

In the previous post I wrote about my hopes for the coming year and the connections I have made with @gina_russell_nz and @wanderandstitch of @growingtextilesnz who are growing organic linen, indigo, and other dye plants out at @bhu.organiccollege

Working with raw materials directly from the soil has been very special for me. My interactions with indigo in the past have been with the powdered pigment extract, but through working with Gina and Charlotte I have been able to begin a relationship with the living plant. I loved being able to experiment with how I could use different parts of the plant in various applications. I used the fresh green leaves in an ice-extraction dye on silk, suede, and wool. The leftover pulp from this I mixed with flour and made into beads. The dried leaves I used as a bed for the ceramic eggs given to me by Cheryl. The remaining dried leaves I will try to grind into a pigment. I made this coiled basket vase using the dried stalks. The waxed linen thread was coloured using charcoal from the fire. It contains the retted and dried stalks of linen that I will process into fibre after this show.

This basket travelled with me while I went on holiday with some friends...

#indigo #indigoplant #japaneseindigo #persicariatinctoria #growntextiles #dyeplants #naturaldyes #basket #basketry #basketmaking #coilbasket #fibre #craft #linen #linenplant

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Planting hopes like seeds for the coming year

I want to find ways of aligning my life to the cycles of nature: to the seasons that change, reminding us of the passing of time and the eternal dance of life and death. This is not an original idea, until very recently it was the unquestionable force that ruled our lives but in our post-industrial world we live according to the beat of the calendar and clock. These metronomes don’t acknowledge the ebb and flow of the seasons but keep us in time to a standardised hour, the metric of our productivity. They view us as clockwork rather than beings with rich inner lives and an innate connection to larger systems. I want to see the year as a cycle rather than a calendar. As I embrace the coming Spring I plant my hopes like seeds for the coming year.

Earlier this year I made a connection with @gina_russell_nz and @wanderandstitch of @growingtextilesnz out at @bhu.organiccollege where they are growing organic linen, indigo, and other dye plants. I helped with their first indigo harvest and took some home for my own use. This was my first time connecting with materials directly from the soil and it was a transformative experience. Using these materials, grown with love and care for wider systems, made me see my connection to place and to others in a new light. I felt, in an embodied sense, the massive part textiles have played in our lives and communities until so recently. Textiles is the second most polluting industry in the world. Working with Gina and Charlotte gives me hope for the future and I am excited to help with the coming season.

This work was made in response to a dozen ceramic eggs given to me by @cherylucasceramics. It will be included in 'Free Range' at @thenational_nz where 16 artists have been invited to respond to their own dozens. It is made from dried indigo stalks from the previous harvest, after their leaves were stripped to use as dye. It holds the eggs on a bed of dried indigo leaves. It holds my hopes for the coming season. It holds my hopes for our relationship with textiles and the planet as a species.

Opening this Wednesday 28th August, 5:30pm
All welcome!

#indigo #weaving #basket #nest

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Processing locally-grown organic linen

One of the most exciting things for me this year has been making a connection with @growingtextilesnz at the @bhu.organiccollege. At the end of the Summer I went to help harvest some of their organic indigo. I took home some leaves to use for dye and a few months later I went back for a bundle of retted and dried linen. I have spent much of my life working with second hand textiles as a way to address the overwhelming waste of our current system but this was my first time connecting directly to the plants and the land where they originate. Working with these materials has allowed me to feel more profoundly rooted to a sense of place in a way that I did not expect. I was moved to reflect on what producing textiles has meant to humans for most of our history. While I despair at the harm that the current fashion/textiles industry does to people and the planet, encountering this kaupapa and seeing it done with such beautiful values gives me hope for the future. A thread is drawn from the past into the future, it binds us all.

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This was my first attempt at processing some of the linen from BHU. Without any proper tools I just used a rolling pin to break then scutch the linen. Finally I heckled it with a comb to produce some fibre that is ready for spinning. The short, coarse fibres that came as a result of this process I combed out and spun into a rough twine. I will continue to document this process as it continues!

#linen #organiclinen #organictextiles #flax #textiles #fibre #textileproduction #handmadetextiles #growingtextiles
#linenproduction #processing #makingtextiles #linenfabric

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