Briefly attempted to make walnut dye but I just don't have it in me to deal with the sheer number of maggots inside them. Not the low effort recovery activity I thought it'd be.
We gave up on removing the husks from the nut and instead smashed them from very far away (shovel). I have also collected up the acorns that fell into my parent's yard from my neighbor's tree so we're doing an acorn dye too!
Starting at the top after the white undyed fiber going clockwise we have: walnut with an iron modifier (30m bath), walnut, acorn with an iron modifier (30m bath), acorn with an iron modifier (1m bath), and acorn.
The fiber is a Cotswold I picked up at a local festival for a great price. It's very rough and has a really short staple length, so I'm thinking of spinning a fine but sturdy yarn for a belt or a bag.
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Rainbow yarn! Each skein is about 8 grams and between 80-90 meters, so there is about 500 meters of lace weight yarn here. I blended the colours myself, fiber contents and fiber pictures under the cut.
I don't know the exact percentages of these blends, it was very much vibes based, but I love my resulting yarns. The ratios below are estimations, I do think they are more right than wrong, but I am mainly writing them down for my own future reference 😅
Red: red corriedale (with some streaks of cream) reddish pink silk, dark red mohair, about a third each, and golden stellina. The blend turned out pinker than expected, but in the final rainbow still definitely reads as red to me
Orange: about 50% orangey-yellow merino/nylon glitter mix and 50% orange sari silk
Yellow: about three quarters of the same orangey-yellow merino/nylon glitter mix as in the orange yarn, but then mixed with yellow sari silk and a little bit if yellow, white and pale green merino. In isolation one could call this skein a shade of orange, but in the context of the other yarns it is yellow enough
Green: about 40% corriedale with some golden stellina, another 40% merino/nylon glitter mix, some more mixed green merino and a bunch of green Wensleydale locks that I flicked open and blended quite thoroughly
Blue: blue Corriedale with glitters mixed in, light blue silk, each like 40% or so, darker blue silk for most of the rest and a little bit of blue sari silk (I plucked the bigger blue bits from the orange and yellow sari silk I was using)
Purple: about 60% Corriedale in varying shades of purple, 20% very light purple/lilah silk, 20% dark pink/purple silk, and some golden stellina
I blended each of the colours on my blending board and then dizzed them off into a roving.
Being into niche hobbies can be really great for training you out of the typical mind fallacy and the idea that your friends are a representative sample of people.
After all as far as I can see the average person spins and has at least tried scouring right? Everyone wants to grow nettle/flax/cotton for spinning no??
For those of you looking for these recipes, they're from Cooking for Engineers. Which should shock nobody. But it's a great site. Sadly seems to be defunct, but I can personally vouch for the recipes being presented in a foolproof* manner. Not only is the card layout great (honestly, just having the oven temperature right there instead of having to keep trying to find it in the recipe is a game changer), but every step has a photo. None of this "until done" rubbish, it'll have a photo of "yeah, here's how it should look, and no, this photo isn't overly produced".
And unlike most cooking blogs, the commentariat substitutions are generally competent!
If you're still not sold on the site, may I add that he once took a pair of calipers to Chili's to test their claim that "their new Smokehouse Bacon Burgers [...] have 'the thickest bacon you've ever seen'."
Unsurprisingly, his verdict was:
(on Friday, April 13, 2008 at the Chili's in Santa Clara, California) they served bacon that was (to an accuracy of 1/128th of an inch) 3/16 in. thick (4.75 mm ± 0.2mm) after cooking. [...] Does it truly hold up to its claim that it's the "thickest bacon you've ever seen"? My guess is that for most people that's true, but for me it was most definitely not the case.
So yeah, definitely check out his website, whether you're a novice or experienced cook, whether you're an engineer or someone who didn't even know what a caliper was before you started reading this. I highly recommend starting with the shepherd's pie (yes, it's the same one from Joy of Cooking), and either the creme brulee or the biscotti for dessert. The recipe image OP used was for espresso brownies. Presumably roasting your own beans is optional, though.
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*It's me. I'm the fool. I'm proof that even a fool can follow the recipes.
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Briefly attempted to make walnut dye but I just don't have it in me to deal with the sheer number of maggots inside them. Not the low effort recovery activity I thought it'd be.
We gave up on removing the husks from the nut and instead smashed them from very far away (shovel). I have also collected up the acorns that fell into my parent's yard from my neighbor's tree so we're doing an acorn dye too!
My huck lace scarf is complete! It has amazing iridescence - really hard to capture on camera but I tried my best. It mostly looks green with a hint of gold shimmer from the orange warp. Now I just need to twist the fringe and wash.
In other news my warping wheel arrived, and it is so nice to warp on! I have already warped my next warp, for a weft-faced rug.
Finished my fifth fishy! Very happy with him, though I did have a couple of thread getting caught places they shouldn't be. The woes of working in black
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Briefly attempted to make walnut dye but I just don't have it in me to deal with the sheer number of maggots inside them. Not the low effort recovery activity I thought it'd be.
i hate that diet culture means all the tasty drinks everywhere are loaded with stevia now. this isn't even a stance about health, I just think it tastes so fucking bad
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this is about the death penalty and its also about call out posts about people who have already apologized for things they did a long time ago and it’s also about using ‘toxic’ or ‘abuser’ as if its an immutable class of person, and its also about any other circumstance with permanent consequences or wherein you assume someone is still the same person they were.
