Project Dyeing

The mordant kit has arrived plan is in place for sheep shearing. Plan to pick plants, petals, flowers, leaves and even onion skins and dye fleece for needle felting, wet felting and spinning wool. Have a plan to knit some items too. 

Might take some planning. 

Step one - research I.e how much to pick  and learning the dyeing process. 

Step two - hope for lovely weather and do some foraging. Will make a change usually forage for food now foraging for colour!! 

Step three- shear sheep and keep fleece step four - spin some wool 

Step five- dye fleece and wool - enjoyable bit experiment with colour! 

Step six - create needle felting kits to sell

Step seven - get knitting

Animal update

Truffle caught her first mouse! 

Ninja caught his first bird

Chickens and ducks all doing well. Mother hen doing a good job looking out for her three chicks. Orphan chicks doing well best of mates. 

Pigs growing well enjoying theirselves. Sheep and lambs all doing well. 

Bees doing really well looking forward to loads of honey. Looking forward to creating honey related sauces.