Eve Schaub is growing a dress. She has no idea what she’s doing.

Author Eve O. Schaub’s latest lifestyle experiment began in 2025 when she planted 600 square feet of flax seeds in her backyard. Since then, with the help of friends and experts, she has learned to harvest, dry, process and finally spin the flax into linen yarn. Still to come? Weaving, natural dying with indigo, designing and sewing her dress. Eve posts her progress every Thursday on Instagram as well as YouTube, Facebook and TikTok.

Growing a Dress has been featured on NPR’s Marketplace and All Things Considered, The Guardian, and Marie Claire Italia.

 

Eve O. Schaub is an internationally published author and humorist. The author of Year of No Sugar (2014) and Year of No Clutter (2017); her  third family memoir is Year of No Garbage (2023).

She has been featured in The New Yorker, on the Weather Channel, NPR, the Dr. Oz Show, and USA Today. Her books have been translated into Chinese, Hebrew and Spanish, and her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Newsweek, the Boston Globe, and Vermont Life. She holds a BA and BFA from Cornell University, and an MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Eve lives with her family in Vermont and enjoys performing experiments on them so she can write about it.