Wednesday wander

A carpet of Wood Anenome and primrose the pungent smell of wild garlic filling the air. Symphonic birdsong dancing on the breeze.
The sun shining warming the air, Buzzards soaring surveying the land below.
Nature at it's best.

Thanks for visiting.
JL

Woodland Walk

Sun shining had a wonderful walk with Tess in the woods this morning armed with my binoculars. Heard the first Cuckoo of spring which brought a big smile to my face. Saw Chiff Chaffs, Chaffinch, Great Tits, Blue Tits, heard a Green Woodpecker yaffle in the trees and a Buzzard over yonder.

I picked some Gorse flowers to make some dye, more of that later.

JL

Blueberry Experiment.

I've been experimenting with blueberries in the dye pot. The results were not quite what I expected, but pleasing all the same.

After boiling up the berries, straining and then letting the resulting dye cool I put in some Merino fibres a piece of wool blanket and a piece of embroidered linen.
After heating for a while then leaving to soak over night I then split the Merino into two and put one piece back into the dye along with a little soda crystals heated it again and these are the results below.
The wool blanket went dark muddy pink, the linen light soft pink, the embroidery on it changed very little.                                                      
  The fibre modified with the crystals turned from a soft dusky pink to soft dusky green.


Thanks for visiting
 JL

 

 

 

Stash find.

I've been looking through my stash basket of handspun yarn and came across these. They are naturally dyed Merino and silk waste that I spun some time ago.

Now what to do with them?