I don't know about you, but for me it's exciting to extract the pigment from natural materials, drop in some wool yarn, and see what color the yarn turns. Today I'm using the fall-blooming wildflower, goldenrod which dyes wool a pretty clear yellow. Other plant materials that can be used include onion skins, avocado pits and skin, red cabbage, blueberries, blackberries, black beans, poke berries, and too many more to name.

I soak the yarn in water until it's saturated, calculate the amount of mordant needed for the amount of yarn I have, soak the yarn in the mordant, extract the pigment from the plant material, dye the yarn in the dye bath, rinse, and dry. Finally, I compare my indie dyed yarn to some commercial yarn. Along the way I give some important pointers on processing wool yarn and demonstrate how to wind the yarn into a skein.


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