We had a great turn out. There were 4 or 5 knitters from Otter Creek knitting group that came to help. People were feeding the fires and carrying water and stirring the pots. It was a lot of physical work. I thought I would have more time to just sit around watching the dye pots cook but that did not seem to be the case. We were moving around all day. I was so exhausted by the time it was over I did not have the energy to unpack my car. It is still filled with my dye stuff. I will have to take everything back to the Farm on Sept.21 next Sunday for the Farm Day Festival. Our group will have a booth and will have a natural dye demo. I am thinking about just leaving the pots and dye stuff in the car till next Sunday.
I ended up dyeing 4 skeins of sport weight Ultra Alpaca from Berrocco, 2 balls of Kroy sock yarn and 1/2 pound of wool roving. I brought a pot of tansy. The dye came out a wonderful warm yellow. some skeins were wrapped with string and rubber bands to get some interesting spots using Ikat and Shou bori techniques from workshops past. Judy brought Indigo and Lynn Brazilwood so I got blue and rose as you can see in the pictures. We also had pots of jewelweed, lady bed straw, onion skins, walnut , queen ann lace, and goldenrod.
We will have three pots next Sunday: Indigo (blue), Marigolds (gold) and jewelweed (apricot). So far only two people said they would come and help with the booth. Check out the poster for Munnell Run Farm Day on their web site. There is a link on this page in the right column. I am hoping to see more of my friends and customers from Otter Creek at the Farm Day Festival. Bring a lawn chair and sit and visit, add to the dye pot. I will have lots of yarn, books and needles for sale.
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