Diaper Garden Gallery: Turnip
February 2003
Ewes are lambing. That's a sure sign of the earliest Spring. Are you planning your garden? Planting seeds that need a warm start? While the garden is waking up, we're still eating from last year's bounty, digging through the root cellar to find turnips, still solid and beautiful.
Setting. This is my basement. Marc had started borrowing camera and lighting equipment from a professional photographer friend by this time. This resulted in quite a set up in our root cellar. I pickled those pearl onions on the right. My son gnawed away at the parsnips for a few days after the photo shoot.
This was the first Diaper Garden set available only to those with prior reservations. I wanted to keep these sets available to all who wanted them, but the volume was just overwhelming. We had to adjust in order to strike a balance between production and demand.
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February 2003
Turnip fitted cloth diaper and cover set
Maybe the color fade looks simple. I hope it does. The final fabric used for the turnips must have been attempt 12 or more. The prototypes were much easier than the rest of the production. We tried dipping and various methods of painting. I think the problem was in the dye mix. The blue tried to separate. We ended up painting the diaper fabric dry, which makes a nice rough color edge on the finished fabric.
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February 2003
Almost-in-One Turnip contour diaper set
If the fabric for the diapers was difficult, the wool was double-difficult. Blood, sweat and tears (well, maybe no blood except bleeding blue dye). I ended up selling a pile of blue-bled striped wool just to get rid up it and never see it again. I love how the finished diaper and cover look, though.
Some Diaper Garden designs were sold the next year as Preserves. I made NO new turnips. None. Never.
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February 2003
Organic Seed Packets
I wonder how many turnip diaper owner actually planted their seeds? We tried to keep the extras seasonal as well as the diapers, so organic turnip seeds with an organic cotton diaper made sense.
The set includes all certified organic seeds from Botanical Interests. Turnip, Seven Top--greens are a great source of calcium; Cilantro (foliage) / Coriander (seeds), Slow Bolting--good for cool season planting; and Wheatgrass, Liquid Sunshine--good for sprouts, juice, or a cat snack in a pot in the house.
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February 2003
Floppy Turnip Baby
The turnip baby is made from two squares of fabric, each folded corner to corner to make a triangle. The body of the baby is inside the pointy end of the chartreuse triangle, while the purple triangle drapes over the body like a loose poncho. The hands and feet are just tight knots. The hair was hand dyes several subtle dark green colors then sewn into the head to cover up the finishing details. Want to see a dreadlocked Turnip baby close up?
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