August 24, 2009

• Keep your sunny side up : )

  

  This isn’t the greatest picture.  But gives you an idea of how the mushroom dying went.  After taking the pic I realized, HEY, this looks like an egg .  A sunny side up egg, LOL.  I put the deeper gold colour in the middle of the lighter yellow to make it easier to snap a pic.  The deeper gold bit is from when I just put a bit of wool in the pot while the mushrooms were still in the broth (so to speak) and let it set there for a couple of days.  Then after having had the mushroom swill setting in a pot for about 2 weeks I was about done with it all, that is having to mess with it.  So decided to give it one more try and this time decided to strain the mushrooms out of it, add more water, reboil it and then put in the wool.  Well, mushrooms that have been sitting for a good while and fermenting have the incredible ability to draw flies from out of NO WHERE .  Also, a mental note to self (DO NOT attempt ever again to use large rock to squish the remaining juice out of the mushrooms thru the strainer.  Or else you’ll get the slippery, slimy gunk all over yourself drawing flies in a nanno second from OUT OF NO WHERE  to feast apon you as if you have been on a 40 DAY WALK ABOUT IN THE OUT BACK , GEESHHH!)

  All in all, I’m happy with the results but would do things differently next time.  The pic doesn’t show off the lighter colour yellow as well but its nice enough to use.  I wasn’t sure until it dried and now I’m just wishing I was able to get more of the deeper gold colour.  Oh, and here is an upclose pic of the mushroom showing more of its underside so you can see how it doesn’t have the gills but more like verticle type of channels/vents.

  

  Now I’m saving union skins to try that out.  Apparantly you get mostly yellows and gold colours from natural dying.  Now I’ll start a collection of the fibers dyed from my natural dying experiements and blend those in some way and come up with a yarn from that, Muwahahahahahah.

  

  Ah, yes he’s knitting more bowls again, LOL.  I’ve been bit by the bowl bug again and here are two more stylin and profilin with the already felted one made way back when.  The stipped one in greens is made out of me own homespun with wools from Sandy and the gang at www.homesteadwoolandgiftfarm.com I had just enough yarn to make this one which made me VERY HAPPY .  Then the dark green one is made with some left over lambs pride wool.  So there they are stuffed with plastic bags for perspective with the already felted one just waiting to have a go round in the washer .  These are so fun to make and great for left over yarns (wool of course). 

  Well, its off to do paper work……..TTFN

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