July 21, 2015: fiber arts Tuesday

At this very moment, there are bowls on our kitchen table with ziploc bags full of wool and natural dyes: juniper, alkanet, and black-eyed susan. I'm letting them soak for now to try to get more intense color, but I'm not sure if that will happen. I've already dyed, carded, and spun some wool with indigo. It came out a beautiful shade of blue!

I plan on continuing the experiments with natural dyes. I want to see which colors I like best, and also what colors I can get from plants that are growing right around our house.