Our Shop, Business Updates & Market Archives

shop update: shawl pins

July 5, 2017 by tarynkae 3 Comments

I’m popping by to let you know that I posted ten new shawl pins in the shop today. I keep getting requests for them, and was asked for more celtic knot ones too. I chose a wide variety of woods, some with designs and some without, and hopefully everyone will find what they had in mind. (If not, send me a message through our Etsy shop and Jeff said he’d be happy to make you a custom one.) I love the shawl pins that Jeff makes and think they’re so beautiful that it makes me want to knit a shawl for myself just to wear one. (His buttons inspired me to start knitting sweaters in the first place!) I knit my first shawl last year, the Pebble Beach Shawl, for my mom for her birthday. Now I’d like to find a pattern to knit for myself. What are your favorite shawl patterns? Come winter time, wrapping myself up in a shawl sounds so cozy.

P.S. When I laid the shawl pins out on a table while I got things organized to start taking pictures, I thought they looked so pretty all lined up there, like a wood rainbow of colors. Madrone, red cedar, myrtlewood, black walnut, mahogany… a beautiful rainbow indeed!

fiber. yarn. and mugs rugs

July 1, 2017 by tarynkae 1 Comment

I love fiber festivals, and when we can have a booth there it becomes a wonderful blend of work and play for me. I work in the booth, chat with customers, search for just the right buttons for someone’s special project, meet new people, and then I walk around (while Jeff watches the booth) to look at familiar booths and new ones, feel fiber, drool over gorgeous yarns in every shade imaginable, and of course visit the animals too. This last weekend we were at the Black Sheep Gathering, a fiber festival that’s closer to home, and doesn’t require as much traveling for us as some of the other festivals we do and have done. There was inspiration to soak up, as there always is when you’re surrounded by so much creativity, and beautiful things to see and enjoy.

Yarn, fiber, and seeing friends is a happy combination I must say. One of the highlights for Bracken and I this year was going to our friend Una’s booth, Wooly Walkers, and making mug rugs for the very first time. Una teaches a rug punching technique in her booth, and you can make a mug rug (it takes about an hour) for only $5. Bracken and I had been wanting to make one the last handful of times we had seen her at fiber festivals, but the timing never worked out. This time we walked up to her booth when it was still early in the morning and the table was open. We had the perfect opportunity so we went for it.

It was so much fun! Bracken really enjoyed it too, he needed a little help finishing his up by the end, but he has asked to do it again. We both discovered a new hobby we enjoy. I thought about gifting mine, it’s the perfect coaster for a steaming mug of goodness, but then a little girl at the booth pointed out that it would make an excellent fairy rug. She was so right. Our mug rugs just might become rugs for Bracken’s toys, we’ll see. I already have dreams of much larger rugs dancing in my head. It’s always fun to learn something new and since I’m obsessed with wool, anytime I learn a new craft surrounding it, I am pleased. (As a sidenote: for those of you planning on going to the Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival in Canby, Oregon in September, Una will have a booth there (ours will be near hers this year, yay!) and you can make your own mug rug to take home.)

On another note, I’ve limited myself to two tubs for my knitting (yarn and supplies) at home, which means I only have so much space for storing yarn. I came home with some beautiful new skeins of yarn from the Black Sheep Gathering this year, but not too many. The perfect solution occurred to me- I just need to knit up my yarn more quickly so I can bring home more!

{Some booths featured in these photos: …Naturally dyed yarn from Sincere Sheep. Brooke’s booth was right across from ours at the Black Sheep Gathering and it was quite wonderful to be so close to her gorgeous yarn all day. …VoZ Jewelry, stamped metal cuffs at the Stash booth. They are handmade in Portland and some of the sayings- like knitters gonna knit- were cracking me up. …And those mugs? Love, love, love the knitting mugs! I got to see the Creative with Clay booth for the first time and it was quite a delight.}

the preparing {& a button party}

June 29, 2017 by tarynkae Leave a Comment

It’s amazing how much preparation goes into a fiber festival that lasts simply a matter of days and is over in the blink of an eye. For every festival and market we sell at, there’s so much work behind the scenes that happens prior. For over a month before the Black Sheep Gathering came, Jeff was helping me set up our pop up booth in our yard on days when the weather was nice. I would then set up a button tying station out there. When it got too hot, I could move to the shade under our booth.

With the extra long stretch of rainy weather we had over the winter, we could hardly stand to be cooped up in the house on those days that were especially gorgeous since we’d been waiting for that beautiful weather for so long. Jeff and I looked for any work that we could bring outdoors to do, and Bracken was grateful every time we did and would be fully occupied catching lizards, finding caterpillars, and watching ants. (And most recently picking berries.)

As I sat barefoot in the grass, tying buttons on cards and listening to the birds one day, I felt that being outside on a day like that was truly the best work environment ever. Of course I couldn’t be out there every day because I had plenty of other tasks to do, but I looked forward to the button days when Bracken and I would spend hours in the garden together. I actually enjoy tying buttons on cards, I find it peaceful and relaxing, and when I can be outside while I do it, that is the best.

While I certainly do enjoy tying buttons on cards, there are only so many I can get done during a given period of time. Last year, when we were getting ready for our fall fiber festival, my friend and I had a button party and she helped me tie buttons on cards. It was so helpful and I was so grateful to her. This year some friends offered to help, and I invited a few other friends who love and use our buttons, and the button party grew. I set up our pop up booth at a park and all the kids ran around and played together while the ladies talked, laughed, and tied buttons. It was wonderful!

Not only did I enjoy the company of friends and simply being together, we got so much accomplished in the relatively short amount of time we had. When I was packing everything up afterwards and putting it back in our car to go home, I couldn’t believe how many button cards we had collectively done! I had organized all the buttons into families in muffin tins before I came that day (Jeff got me a bunch of muffin tins from the thrift store when he had gone to town a few days prior) and then one friend put the ties through all the buttons while the rest of us tied them on. We had a good system going.

My friends were all commenting on how fun it was to tie buttons on cards and we all agreed that it was satisfying to have something tangible to accomplish. (And we joked, as moms, that it was unlike cleaning the house which lasted for a few moments before it was a mess again. Ha!) Jeff and I offered to pay all our friends in buttons (or earrings or shawl pins…), but they all came simply to help us out, and we’ve had to insist they pick something out, so we’ve been setting them up with new earrings and buttons for their projects.

Any buttons we didn’t sell at the festival over the weekend, will help us build up our stock for the next fiber festival. The help is surely appreciated. It’s wonderful when you ask for help and the ones helping really enjoy it. I heard “Let’s do this again!” and “When’s the next button party?” quite a few times, and I felt the same way because we had such a great time. Thank you, thank you to our friends that helped us out this year, we’re so grateful to you all!

P.S. I’ve been asked about the online shop and when it will open again. I wanted to let you know it’s back open!

black sheep this weekend

June 23, 2017 by tarynkae 2 Comments

I’m popping by for a quick hello. I had such a fun first day at Black Sheep Gathering today and we have two more days yet to enjoy it! You can find us in booth P4 (here is a map) on Saturday and Sunday. The hours and directions are on the site. (I don’t want to tell you the hours for fear I’ll give you false information because I showed up an hour early this morning. Ha!) Oh, our online shop will be closed for the duration of the show and I’ll be skipping Gratitude Sunday on the blog this week. I think that’s all. Now off to bed for me. I have a good feeling I’ll be dreaming of yarn and fiber tonight.

shop update: shawl pins & buttons

June 16, 2017 by tarynkae 1 Comment

I promised you shawl pins in the next shop update, and here they are! 13 of them. (And if you had a particular wood or design in mind that you don’t see currently in the shop, I will be listing more shawl pins after our upcoming fiber festival next weekend.) I also added a bunch of new buttons in this shop update. Last Saturday I posted 33 (!) new sets of buttons in the shop. (I set a new record for how many items I posted in our shop in a single day.) And this week I’ve been busy posting shawl pins. (I LOVE, love that new turtle shawl pin! Jeff was inspired by other wooden turtle shawls pins that he has seen, and is working on more.) It has felt good to fill up the shop with new things. I took pictures with yarn in a wider variety of colors this time because I find it so helpful for visualizing projects when you see how the wood and yarn combinations pair together.

When looking for buttons for your projects, don’t forget about our made to order buttons. We have a section in our shop for the buttons that Jeff creates after you order them, that way you can choose exactly how many you want for your project. Speaking of our made to order buttons, we updated the listing for heart buttons. We’re now offering them in red cedar wood and I just adore how they are turning out in that wood. If you look at what we have currently in the shop, and look through our made to order buttons and still don’t find something that will work for your project, Jeff makes custom orders quite often. (And he’d be happy to do so after our show.)

This will be our last shop update for June. Our next update will be in July. If you see something you love, I would encourage you to get it while you can. We will be bringing everything we have to the Black Sheep Gathering next weekend and if it sells at the show, it will no longer be available in the shop. (Said another way: our online shop will be closed during the show and if something listed in the shop sells at Black Sheep I will delete the listing before I re-open the shop.) That’s the tricky part about updating our shop sometimes, when an item sells at a festival after all of my work photographing and listing it online. I’ve thought about setting aside everything I’ve posted online and not bringing it to shows, but we really like to bring everything we have.

I realize my timing is a bit funny to be doing a shop update right before a festival for that very reason, but I had everything photographed and sometimes you just need to do things when the opportunity arises! All that being said, I would love to sell as many buttons and shawl pins as I can in the shop before our festival begins, to make my efforts of this most recent shop update worth it. (It takes a lot of time to photograph and list everything.) We will be offering 10% off everything in the shop when you use the coupon code: SPRING10 at checkout. The discount will be good through the 21st, the first day of summer. We work very hard to make a living as we do and we’re so grateful for your support of our family business!

Oh, and one more thing before I go- we are having a giveaway over on Ginny’s blog this weekend. We’ll be giving away one set of buttons and one shawl pin, winner’s choice. Head on over this weekend if you’d like to enter!

P.S. Jeff decided he wanted to make a wooden comb one day, he played around in his woodshop to figure it out, and after making a few, now he can’t wait to make more. The ones shown above are the first three that he has made, and they are available for sale in the shop. He’s been really enjoying figuring out his technique. I like that these are the first three he has made and we both agree they could be special heirlooms to pass down for generations.

shop update {buttons}

May 8, 2017 by tarynkae 4 Comments

Hello! I hope you’re in the mood to look at a whole lot of buttons this Monday morning because that’s what I have to share. (I know- I need to add some variety to my yarn colors next time to go with the button cards in the pictures, it’s a lot of blue and yellow!) I’ve been meaning to share a shop update here for awhile, but once I do a button photo shoot (with literally hundreds and hundreds of pictures, I took over 600 pictures one day, just to give you an idea) it takes me awhile to process all the pictures and then do the listing in the shop for each individual button set. I typically begin a blog post to share all the new listings with you, but by the time I’ve got all the buttons posted (over a span of weeks or even months, posting some each week) many of the buttons have sold by then, so I don’t publish the blog post. That being said, some of the button sets pictured above have indeed sold, but most of them are still currently available in the shop.

It can be tricky for me to find the time I want to post new items in the shop, especially when we are busy with festivals and markets. When I’m hanging out at home with Bracken throughout the day I can cook, clean, do laundry, and even package up orders, all the while mixing in bits of homeschooling throughout our day, but I’m not able to have very much computer time while we’re together. I prefer it that way because I like my days to be filled with activities that he can either participate in if he would like to (I love when he helps in the kitchen) or ones that he can do his own activities nearby (like playing in the garden while I’m taking pictures of buttons outside.) I aim to wake up earlier (or go to bed later) to catch up on e-mails and to share in this space, and some days that happens and some days it doesn’t. I’m not writing all this to complain, I’m very grateful for my life, I’m simply sharing it to explain why it can be a challenge to keep up with everything on the computer and why I hadn’t listed more in the shop. (But I wonder if there is such a thing as “catching up” on the computer, even with ample time?)

However, I’ve been working to get our shop filled up for all of our far away customers who aren’t able to purchase our buttons in person at fiber festivals. (For those of you who are nearby, we’ll be having a large selection of buttons at the upcoming Black Sheep Gathering in Eugene, in June.) Jeff has been working like crazy lately, he loves making things, and we’ll need plenty of new stuff to fill up our booth for upcoming festivals. Bracken was really missing time with his dad though, and Jeff was really missing time with his boy, so we’ve started one day a week where they have some time just the two of them. They usually choose to spend it in the garden (now that the weather is getting nicer), which they both enjoy so much. I’ve been spending that time posting buttons in the shop and it’s felt great to be getting some focused work time on the business, since it’s challenging to list new items in the shop with a lot of interruptions. (Jeff works from home every day with his family here, so he knows very well about working amidst countless interruptions.) One of the great things about their time together each week, is that Bracken knows that if his dad is busy working and he wants to do something together, there will be time to do it and his dad won’t just be busy and working forever. (It can feel that way for a kid, huh?)

This shop update is all buttons, but I plan to have shawl pins in the next shop update because we’re currently sold out of all our shawl pins in the shop. For those of you who have been wanting them, they will be back! As I’m tying buttons on cards, I fall in love with so many of the button sets. I love them all for different reasons and in different ways. Some buttons are made in woods with rich, deep hues, and others in light and subtle colors. Jeff has been making so much variety- with a wide range of woods and with a wide range of designs. If you’re looking for buttons for a project and don’t see what you need listed (or if you like something above and it is sold), Jeff also makes custom buttons. The best way to order custom buttons is to send me a conversation through the Etsy shop because I can keep all our custom orders organized there, in one place. Oh, and remember I promised some button sets to go along with the Comfort Cowl pattern? I did list them, but they’re almost all gone now. I’ll try to be quicker in letting you know next time!

I have a lot of buttons to start tying on cards for our next fiber festival and I need to get started now so I don’t have a billion buttons to tie on cards at the last minute. (Live and learn, right?) With the beautiful weather, I’m thinking tying buttons on cards outside is sounding pretty nice right now! I’m planning to set up an outdoor button-tying station in our yard and I know Bracken will be very pleased with that idea because he only wants to be outside right now. I don’t blame him, it felt like such a long, rainy winter here and this turn in the weather is so appreciated!

at cozy

April 1, 2017 by tarynkae Leave a Comment

First of all, how adorable is that knitted open sign (hanging from a knitting needle no less!) for a knitting shop? Love. I wanted to pop by to let you know that there’s a new knitting shop in Eugene, called Cozy (I love that name), and you can now find WoolyMossRoots buttons there. I had several local knitting friends tell me to check out the shop and I went for a visit over the winter. While I was there I ran into friend who introduced me to the owner and then told her all about the beautiful wooden buttons that Jeff makes. (It feels like a small world sometimes, this knitting community, and it’s amazing how many connections there are within it, even at times when we have traveled far for a fiber festival.)

We only bring a small selection of buttons with us when we sell at the Saturday Market and the Holiday Market, reserving our booth space for the things we sell the most there. We mostly bring our buttons to fiber festivals, which is where they are popular, and our largest selection of buttons in Eugene each year is at the Black Sheep Gathering. But that’s just once a year. I’m so glad to now be able to send people over to Cozy when they are looking for a regular source for our buttons in the Eugene area, which we’ve been asked about quite a few times.

It was fun to have more time to look around Cozy recently. I fell in love with their Ravelry station. Yes, Ravelry Station! There really is such a wonderful thing! I know I’ve said this here before, but Ravelry is my “happy place” on the internet (and also my favorite place to find knitting patterns.) Whenever I go into yarn shops and start looking around at all the yarn, I’ll think ‘Oh I think that yarn would be so perfect for that one pattern I saw! But wait- what weight of yarn was it again? And what size knitting needles?’ At the Ravelry station at Cozy you can conveniently look up your patterns while you are in the shop. You can also purchase patterns, download patterns, and print a copy right there for a minimal fee. I had a project I wanted to get started on right away, with a pattern I had seen on Raverly. I was able to walk out of Cozy with the yarn, needles, and pattern (in a page protector!) all ready to go. Just wonderful, I tell you. (Especially since Jeff was driving that day and I had some knitting time during the drive. Every knitting opportunity is precious, right knitters?)

For those of you who are local (and for those who plan to be passing through at some point), you can find Cozy at 285 E 5th Avenue in Eugene, north of the Fifth Street Public Market.

making things, then & now

March 11, 2017 by tarynkae 4 Comments

Since we’ve been reminiscing, I thought it would be fun to share this picture of Jeff selling his handmade jewelry at Stanford in the 70’s. I love this picture. Jeff has always loved making things and in 1974 started selling his artwork to make a living, and did that throughout his twenties. (He likes to joke about his days “going to Stanford.”) After that period of time he started working other jobs. He worked all sorts of jobs from working as a phone man, to working at a software company, to working at a mill, to working as a certified nursing assistant at a senior care facility and as a peer adviser at a community college. He also started a landscaping business and did odd jobs. Being the maniac (or “working fool” as we like to say) that he was, he often had three jobs at one time.

When I met Jeff he was getting up at two in the morning, delivering the rural newspaper, and then going to the post office after that and delivering the rural mail. He wasn’t getting enough sleep at that time and he was exhausted. One day we were cleaning up around his house and I found some of his old artwork in a drawer. I had no idea he was such an artist and was blown away. There was a long period of his life where his artwork had been forgotten about. I told him that he should start creating artwork again.

Then I encouraged him to make a living from his artwork once more, and joined him in that endeavor. And with that, he started bringing his dreams back to life. It was a leap of faith to start our business with hardly any money and to not have a steady paycheck. It was sometimes very stressful, yet we both knew it was the right path for us. We’ve had to work very hard to support ourselves this way, but it’s been incredibly rewarding. Every job he had taught him something and gave him a plethora of experiences along his journey, but out of all the jobs Jeff has ever had, making things has always been his favorite. And I’m very glad to see him doing what he loves.

the drive back

March 8, 2017 by tarynkae 9 Comments

Jeff lived in the Bay Area in the 70’s. He moved there around the fifth grade (he went to school in Mountain View) and on our trip he had planned to show us some special places from his past. When we got to Santa Clara, though, he was in for a surprise. It had changed so much since he had last been there and he could hardly believe his eyes. He expected it to be different, but it didn’t even look like the same place. I had been warned about the traffic in San Francisco before we drove down, and we had hoped to avoid it as much as possible, though I didn’t know what to expect because I had never been there before. I thought on the “outskirts” the traffic wouldn’t be so bad (?), but the traffic… yikes!

We met wonderful people at Stitches West and it was fun making new connections. The traffic, however, was the downside of the trip for us. Though I had no vehicle when I lived in Portland and either walked wherever I needed to go or took public transportation, I later drove through the city on trips. And I’ve driven in Seattle before. So Portland and Seattle were my experiences with city traffic. I’m not a fan of city traffic and I found it frustrating to be at a constant standstill, and to have traffic all times of day (not even being able to avoid it when it wasn’t rush hour.) But the traffic we experienced when we went on our most recent trip in the Bay Area was something else altogether.

Cars were driving at insane speeds, then stopping suddenly, tailgating to a dangerous degree, cutting people off, not letting cars in, and swerving in and out like madmen. The hotel where we stayed was not all that far from the convention center where Stitches West was held (only a short trip on the interstate, three quick exits down), but going back and forth each day was terrifying. I think the most disturbing part of the traffic for us was the intensity of the angry, aggressive driving. I know some people reading this will say… Hello! Welcome to city traffic! But for those like us who are not used to it, it was unlike anything we’d ever experienced before.

By the time we would get to the show each morning or make it back to our hotel at night, our nerves were fried from the short commute and we would ask each other “How do people drive in this and keep their sanity?!” Jeff said it would have been easier for him if he had been the only one in the car, but since he was driving with his family in the car and had us to protect, driving around there was stressful to the utmost degree. He saved us from far too many near collisions in the short amount of time that we were down there. Later he joked that the only way he would drive around there again was if we had some impervious tank to drive in that couldn’t be smashed by reckless vehicles whirring past at insane speeds. (I teased him that when we got back home he wouldn’t complain about the drivers where we live anymore.)

Needless to say, Jeff didn’t take us on a drive down memory lane because we all desperately wanted to get away from that traffic as soon as the show was done. We were all disappointed that we didn’t get to go to his old stomping grounds, but the way things had changed we weren’t sure if they would still be there at all. I have never been to San Francisco before and would like to see the city sometime (perhaps flying in, walking everywhere, and taking public transportation?), but we didn’t do any sightseeing in the area while we were down there, so all I saw was concrete and highway from our trips back and forth from the hotel to the convention center and back.

All that being said, since we didn’t get to explore that area (and we were in great need of soothing our fried nerves), we wanted to make our trip back fun and relaxing, and see beautiful parts of California at the same time. We were ready to get home, but wanted to enjoy the journey on our return trip. We decided to drive back on 101, the coastal route, rather than I-5 that we had driven down on. On the Monday morning we headed out (after packing up our booth at the show on Sunday night), our first plan of action was to get away from the city traffic as soon as possible. Then we took a road just south of Napa and Sonoma. The farther we got from the traffic, the more relaxed we felt. I had never seen that area before and have heard so many good things. Even though we didn’t get to see the actual towns of Napa and Sonoma (I want to go back and explore there someday), I did get a feel for the area by seeing rolling hills covered in grapes. It was beautiful.

We hadn’t seen a bathroom in awhile and finally pulled over at the Schellville Grill. We also needed to find a gas station and get our bearings on our directions. We were all happy that we ended up there by accident because Jeff got some organic smoked meat and they had one of Bracken’s favorite things on the menu (sweet potato fries.) Their garlic fries were covered in fresh pressed garlic (yum!) and I helped Jeff eat some of his because I knew he would have a hard time eating them all. (Ha!)

We planned to break the drive up into two days and stay overnight the first evening in Arcata, but it was getting dark and we needed some dinner. We ended up stopping in Garberville and staying there. The only thing was I didn’t realize how small of a town it was and most of the restaurants were closed, there was hardly anything open that night. We ended up going to the grocery store and then having a picnic in our motel room. The room was freezing and I wasn’t feeling in very high spirits (I wanted to go out to eat to a warm meal and go to bed.) Jeff worked at making a gourmet picnic and was all smiles, and I joked “So I guess you are going to make the best of the situation, then?” I felt better when the room warmed up and I ate some food.

The next morning we found a gem of a restaurant before we hit the road. The Lost French Man had some seriously delicious food, using all organic fruits and vegetables. My body feels really good on a grain-free diet and I hadn’t had bread in a long time, but Jeff and I both ordered their breakfast sandwich (BEAT- bacon, egg, arugula, and tomato) on gluten-free bread, and were very glad we did. It was so good. Their smoothies and fresh juice blends were amazing too. (This is a very small sampling of their menu. It’s a restaurant I would definitely recommend visiting if you’re in the area.)

Jeff pointed out eucalyptus trees along the drive. The smell is one of his favorites and brings him right back to his memories living in California with eucalyptus trees growing all around. We saw a whole herd of elk on the side of the road (at Elk Country) so we pulled over and drove slowly by. (All the pictures were taken from inside the car and it was a delight to get to see them so close.) That was a fun and unexpected part of our drive back. We saw huge, magnificent redwood trees. (Though I hardly got any pictures of those.) And then… then we were back in Oregon and we kept our promise to Bracken, which was to stop by the beach on the way home. We found perfect little white pebbles, and other little treasures, and felt the glorious wind on our faces. It felt good to get out and stretch after sitting in the car for far too long. The coastal drive was a longer drive, but it was more relaxing for us.

That California sunshine felt so warm and good (and we saw such beautiful places), but I must say that we were all very glad to be back in Oregon, even when the sunshine left and the clouds came as we drove north along the coast. It seems every time we leave, we appreciate coming home to Oregon even more. It sure feels good to be home, doesn’t it?

at stitches west (& a verb for keeping warm)

March 4, 2017 by tarynkae 2 Comments

There was so much to see at Stitches West! As I said before (when I shared pictures of our booth), I only saw a small portion of the booths that were there. And when I went to look through my pictures, I realized I didn’t take all that many, I wasn’t looking with my camera lens most of the time. A friend described Stitches West as crazy and overwhelming. Yet also wonderful, of course. I agreed. So much yarn in one place? It filled my senses, seeing all that color and touching all those fibers. (And that bag? Someone wore it in our booth and it made me laugh.) I noticed, as I always do at fiber festivals, that I tend to gravitate towards the yarn dyed with natural dyes. I love bright, vibrant colors, but there is something about the natural hues that just pulls me in. They can still be bright and vibrant of course, but there is something about them that feels more gentle and subdued, something grounding and soothing. I don’t know how else to describe it, my body just gravitates towards them like a magnet. And speaking of natural dyes…

I stumbled upon A Verb for Keeping Warm‘s booth. I thought the name sounded familiar and figured that a pattern I had knit had recommended their yarn or something. Later, when I found out that the owner, Kristine Vejar, was the author of The Modern Natural Dyer, I asked if she had written any articles for Taproot magazine. When I found out she had indeed, I had an aha moment. After reading one of her articles (which I realized is where I recognized the name from), it inspired me to finally do some natural dyeing myself. What a small world! Bracken had been begging me to do a natural dyeing project and I distinctly remember her article giving me that final push to just do it already and get the ball rolling. Then I had a friend to help guide me, which I felt so grateful for.

I’m excited to announce that you can now find WoolyMossRoots buttons at A Verb for Keeping Warm’s brick and mortar shop in Oakland, California! The shop looks amazing and I wish we could have had the pleasure of visiting during our time in California, but perhaps another time. If you are in the Bay Area, be sure to check it out!