Dyeing

So I found this on vacation. Looks like very much fun. Very down to earth. Very basic how-tos. I thought it looked like a practical resource that I could use. A very useful souvenir.

And I have all this, which is wool top (seconds) picked up from Brown Sheep…oh…a while back. Nothing fancy. Nothing to worry about ‘messing’ up, in other words.

Then I found this undiscovered tidbit in my now famous ‘way and means’ to harvest and dry herbs book.

Loooooky there, fabric...yarn...and tuffs of roving! I never noticed...

Now I have had this book for nigh on 15 years, I am thinking. I do believe I bought in when we lived in Missouri. But see. It just never occurred to me before now that these pages had anything to say to me. While checking my resources to make sure my catnip was going to be done up right, and my lavender taken care of properly…well, there it was all along. The ways and means of dyeing right along with the harvest and drying, all overlooked.

So anyway. The stars are lining up. I am downright fearful to read much about what I might have growing in my yard that I could use.

Seriously. Those grandbebe girls are on their way, and they wants their quilts.