For a variety of reasons, some personal, some structural (as in setting up a studio, aka My New Happy Place), some environmental (as in this wasn’t a very good year for dye mushrooms), my dyepots have been cold for the last few months. That will soon change, however, once my new workspace is ready and functional.
My spinning wheel hasn’t slowed down all that much, though; here are some interesting textures that resulted from some of my play sessions.
More posts to follow as soon as I can fire up the dyepots!
SHROOMWORKS 
Beautiful! what mushroom did you use to get the blue color?
Actually, the shadows made that one skein appear bluer than it really is – I got the bluey greens from Hydnellum aurantiacum, a toothed fungus. Thanks to mushroom maven Susan Hopkins, I’ve learned how to be more successful at coaxing blue out of these guys, and that will be my first dyepot once I’ve moved into my new studio space – I’ll blog about the process then.
Those look like some gorgeous skeins. I would love to see an up close picture! It looks maybe like you over-plyed with a skinny thread over top of the wool? Love the colours.
Thanks – I’ll post some close-ups.
Lovely colours….
These are so beautiful!!