Gentle readers:

It’s been far too long since I’ve posted about my dyepot adventures, primarily because it’s been far too long since our area (the temperate rainforest of coastal British Columbia) has had a good mushroom season.

While my surroundings are still very much a rainforest, at least through the winter and spring, summers have become consistently hotter and drier over recent years. Last year the autumn rains didn’t happen until late October, and the dye mushrooms were scarce, with a few species not appearing at all, when I used to find them in abundance.

The result of this has been a shift in my own creative work; for the last two years I have spent most of my studio upcycling thrifted garments or making clothes from thrifted fabrics.

In the meantime, I have genuinely enjoyed sharing my dyepot discoveries with you, and I hope I have inspired some of your own joyful discoveries.