Two years ago we discovered the amazing Mukilteo Garden and Quilt show. It turns out to be biannual, so naturally we signed up again as soon as we realized this was the year it returned. We took our friends Brook and Byron with us and it was a fantastic day starring beautiful Pacific Northwest gardens
While wandering around Kigoma searching for fabrics, we stumbled into a soap-making “factory” on the outskirts of town. I use the word factory as that’s what they called it, but I’m not sure that’s what we’d consider it in the US as it was all open-air rather than in a building. It was a huge
Just a little textile porn for my friends who are into this sort of thing…Aunt Casey and Cousin Amy, we’re speaking to you. In 2015 we brought home a heap of khangas; the traditional swahili fabric with distinct patterns and borders, usually used for clothing. Hopefully it was okay that we instead made them into
Another powerful day in Tanzania! This time it was our return to visit the Amboni Women’s Group (Amboni is a small town outside of Tanga). When we met them in 2015 they were just learning skills to make items they could sell – soap, tie-dye, etc. At the time I thought everyone was very nice,
We were super lucky to make a return visit to the Makonde tribe where Aaron reunited with his wood carving teacher, Mende, from 2015. As a refresher, during our 2015 trip our friend Brian asked the Makonde tribe if they’d give Aaron a carving lesson. When they said ‘yes’ Aaron and I peeled off from