Writer. Maker. Musician.

Hello and welcome!

My name is Megan Adam. I’m a professional communicator and president of my union local by day. In my free time I am active in community, craft, music, and creating a home with my partner Brian on Gabriola Island in British Columbia. 

I have blogged here as Red Cedar since 2004, and before that on Livejournal for a couple of years (those archives have gone into the ether) Over those last 18+ years my interests have changed quite a lot.

Subjects I write about these days include weaving, violin-playing, sewing, knitting, power-lifting, books, canning and cooking, community politics and Zen Buddhism. Over the years I have also written about mental health, homesteading and gardening, environmental politics, philosophy, urban living and cycling. Whatever I do, I also write about.

I welcome comments and connections via the blog interface, or email and can be reached at Megan dot e dot adam *at* gmail.com and all my projects are found at All Things Megan Adam.

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Some hand dyed embroidery threads ready for use in winter projects. Fustic, Eastern Brazilwood, Indigo, and Dhalia.
Home office before and after. New furniture, moved my big shelving unit to make space for a design wall, everything cleaned and reorganized!
Lots of canning this week! $100 worth of produce nets us 12 quarts of tomato sauce, 9 pints of roasted tomato salsa, 12 pints of diced roasted tomatoes and 12 jars of nectarine jam to bring back to the coast tomorrow. That's a haul that makes me happy. #foodsecurity #keremeos #sandersonsfruitstand #summerofmaking2021 #canningseason
Knitting with hand dyed yarns at the golden hour. It always takes me a few days to settle in at the cabin, but once it happens I don't want to leave. Enjoying these last summery days up here watching the first cottonwood leaves turn yellow. #summerofmaking2021 #naturaldye #whyprinceton #knittersofinstagram #knitallthethings #knitstagram
There are many quilts at our cabin, most of them made by a co-owner's mum (we own and share this place with a couple of folks). I love them hung as privacy dividers in our loft. #quiltinglove #quiltsofinstagram #quilting
Making nectarine-ginger jam while chilling in the interior. It's still summer here! #summerofmaking2021
Greens, gray, and a spot of purple. These will become my first project with hand dyed yarns.... some kind of cowl or scarf!
Every couple of years I sew a new set of everyday napkins for the house. This year instead of sewing, I coloured a set of 12 blanks from @maiwahandprints with #naturaldyes. These will surely brighten up the winter table! #linens #textilestudio #summerofmaking2021
Today I am working on some #surfacedesign with my dyed fabrics. I am using #naturalpigments mixed with soy milk to paint the fabric. I'm not much of a painter but I am having fun with organic expression and when I eventually make my hand dyed quilt sampler, these will be incorporated into it. #naturaldyeing #textilestudio #summerofmaking2021
This red was a total accident but it's the one I've been looking for all summer. This was the dark gold, dhalia-dyed skein which I wanted to turn a brighter orange. I overdyed it with 25% Brazilwood to the weight of the fibre..... and voila! The perfect (in my estimation) red. Not orangey or pink. Real, true red. Do I dare try for a second skein in this colour to see if I can get enough for a shawl? #summerofmaking2021 #naturaldyeing #textilestudio
Yesterday I did a final wash on the napkins and quilting fabric I dyed over the summer. I've now ironed this bowl of fabrics and am ready to start showing off my fabric and yarn sets for fall and winter projects. I havent quite packed up the dye studio yet but I will be doing that soon as the weather cools down. #naturaldyeing #texilestudio #summerofmaking2021
Dahlias! I did a first dye bath with a preponderance of one kind of Dhalia and got orange yarn, and gold fabric + embroidery thread. I tried a second run with a different balance of flowers hoping to get my larger skein that bright orange colour but instead I got a dull gold which I don't love. I plan to overdye the large skein with some Brazilwood this week in the hopes of getting a colour for a fall knitting project. Such an interesting experiment though, and I think next summer I will do more experiments with wildcrafted and home grown dyes. #summerofmaking2021 #textilestudio #naturaldyeing

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