My list of sewing failures is long and varied: the pillow case in 7th grade Home Ec that I sewed completely shut, replacing snaps on a cardigan where I sewed on every snap so they were all “outies,” a wine bag that turned out to be an envelope, and the...

Last summer, I taught a freeform tapestry workshop at the New England Fiber Arts Summit, hosted by Wing & A Prayer farm in Vermont. A day or so into the retreat, I realized that it was my very first experience of teaching at an event where I was not the only BIPOC instructor. I...

Natural dyeing is pretty much witchcraft. I don't know why anyone pretends otherwise. You forage for things in the fields and woods, and then boil everything in a cauldron of poison. My incantations run more along the lines of "horseshoe of iron and bark of crabapple" than "eye of newt,"...