walking home

sour sop from the footpath, eucalyptus bark from the park. Heading for the dyepot on the weekend.

natural dyeing - eucalyptus

 

This is the results of my first attempt with eucalyptus leaves. At top organic merino and below some mohair locks. i was suprised as I expecting the russet tones that eucalypus typically produces. These are beautiful, silvery tawny greens. I can only speculate which variable produced these tones..perhaps the species, time of year, ph of my water etc.

yarn

here is the organic merino that I dyed with onion skins all spun up. 2 skeins, about 70 gms each.

natural dyeing

 

materials I am collecting: spent blooms, avacado pip, pomegranate, gumnuts

new camera

      first image from my new camera (canon 550D). bundled recycled sari silk strips.