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Die Färbesaison ist eröffnet - I'm finally dyeing again!

Some renovating of the house had forced me to remove all my dyeing equipment from the terrace, and it took me a while to reover from that shock ::-)
But last week I finally got the green walnut shells out of the freezer, tossed then in a bucket of water and one day later soaked some new onestranded skein in the dye. Left it in there for days because in the rainy weather, the wool wouldn't have dryed anyway.
The wool didn't look good at all when I took it out. There seemed to be a lot of black and grey in the brown. I had thrown in some galls of Black Alder (alnus glutinosa) in the dye to keep it from rotting. As I know from last years experimenting, Black Alder doesn't work as cold dye, but I suddenly got doubts. I rinsed, all the grey vanished with the dye, and what I got was a skein of wool in a wonderful warm gold.
Aaah, feels good to be back!

The color is a bit darker than in the picture.