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which_chickMatters 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.
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Date: 2011-07-15 03:20 am (UTC)Ah, Tansy
Date: 2011-07-16 06:57 pm (UTC)And yes, black walnut will give you brown dye in abundance. It will also stain the everloving shit out of your hands, clothes, sidewalk, etc. It is potent and lasting.
My mom and her brother got in trouble as little kids on account of dyeing themselves brown with black walnuts while playing the roles of "Indians" in a game of Old West with friends. Apparently, they were brindled with black walnut streaks for the better part of two weeks afterwards.