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Jul. 14th, 2011 10:17 pmMatters horse: It's been too hot lately to do much. I rode PH today for two trips up the hill. Trys (on Wren) came with. It was uneventful but sweaty (for the horses).
Matters fiber: I'm about halfway through the grey hat for me. I spun and plied the remainder of the yarn singles I had ready to go in "hat grey" -- that needs to be skeined and washed and thwacked, hung to dry, and wound into a ball. I have a current ball that is almost gone, a ball in queue that is ready to use, and this third hunk that still needs some work. The hat should be done in about 2.5 balls, so I do need to get the last hunk worked up but it's not urgent.
I sent off for stuff to mordant wool in a "trying not to jump in at once" sort of way. There is cherry bark (a huge cherry tree came down -- dad sawed it up for timber but there were some Y's and stuff that he kept for firewood and I pulled bark off of them) soaking in a five gallon bucket in the yard. Cherry bark allegedly makes pinky-purpley-brown colors on yarn. We shall see about that in due course, I reckon.
I have some rather vague instructions and a cheap-ass (not-for-food) big enameled pan from Wal-Mart. I also have tansy (growing rampantly in Hazel's garden in what would be the strawberry patch were it not chock-full of tansy) which supposedly makes yellows, black walnuts which allegedly make a brown range when not thwocking at full speed out of the mower chute, goldenrod by the bucketfull, redroot pigweed, and assorted other plants worth giving a whirl in ye olde dyepot. Fear not, I will keep you all posted as I know full well that you're breathless with anticipation, here.
Matters fiber: I'm about halfway through the grey hat for me. I spun and plied the remainder of the yarn singles I had ready to go in "hat grey" -- that needs to be skeined and washed and thwacked, hung to dry, and wound into a ball. I have a current ball that is almost gone, a ball in queue that is ready to use, and this third hunk that still needs some work. The hat should be done in about 2.5 balls, so I do need to get the last hunk worked up but it's not urgent.
I sent off for stuff to mordant wool in a "trying not to jump in at once" sort of way. There is cherry bark (a huge cherry tree came down -- dad sawed it up for timber but there were some Y's and stuff that he kept for firewood and I pulled bark off of them) soaking in a five gallon bucket in the yard. Cherry bark allegedly makes pinky-purpley-brown colors on yarn. We shall see about that in due course, I reckon.
I have some rather vague instructions and a cheap-ass (not-for-food) big enameled pan from Wal-Mart. I also have tansy (growing rampantly in Hazel's garden in what would be the strawberry patch were it not chock-full of tansy) which supposedly makes yellows, black walnuts which allegedly make a brown range when not thwocking at full speed out of the mower chute, goldenrod by the bucketfull, redroot pigweed, and assorted other plants worth giving a whirl in ye olde dyepot. Fear not, I will keep you all posted as I know full well that you're breathless with anticipation, here.
