Shrooms
While camping last weekend at Parker's Creek we had a beautiful site right on the lake, a terrific climbing log and lots of cool mushrooms. Riley and I tromped through the woods collecting all the different kinds of mushrooms we could find. It was great fun, smelly slimy but fun. I dutifully did research for the proper methods, there are many sites about dyeing wool with mushrooms. I placed my chopped up mushrooms into jars, filled the jars with water and let them "steep" in the sun for two days. Strained the extremely slimy and smelly mushrooms and placed them in cheesecloth. Scoured and mordanted 40 grams of wool yarn. Brought mushroom/ yarn up to 170 degrees and held it for one hour. Soaked overnight and VOILA! Five of the most uninspiring shades of beige yarn ever produced. Bonus, it smelled so bad even after multiple washings... I threw it out!