Very interesting indeed! I love earth tones and the orange browns and greens is so beautiful to me! besides onion skins have you ever dyed anything using acorn hulls or nut hulls? I know some ole Amish women who used to dye their wool and flax using these hulls, always turned out very pretty to me.
Debra, I did -- I tried using old walnut hulls (they were too old and no longer green, so they didn't work), and I used pecan shells (did not save the hulls, so only used the shells, of which we have LOTS), and the pecan shells did give a lovely pale maroon color. I'd like to use green pecan hulls one year if I ever get my act together!
@@myownlittlehouse471 ahh I see , why not cook the shells for the dye? I wonder what a bag of mixed nuts costs these days? Might be a good experiment, for walnuts too here in the mountain I usually have to hunt under the leaves and deer step push them in the ground, making old hulls mushy, I remember as a kids hulling them after my foster father left them in a box a few months, my fingers even through gloves were a green brown black took months to go away lol
They are both beautiful. Very different. That silk is amazing! Congratulations!!
Thank you, Nancy!
Absolutely gorgeous!
Thank you so much!
I think both your scarves are beautiful though I have to agree, the silk one turned out the best.❤
Thank you! :)
Very interesting indeed! I love earth tones and the orange browns and greens is so beautiful to me! besides onion skins have you ever dyed anything using acorn hulls or nut hulls? I know some ole Amish women who used to dye their wool and flax using these hulls, always turned out very pretty to me.
Debra, I did -- I tried using old walnut hulls (they were too old and no longer green, so they didn't work), and I used pecan shells (did not save the hulls, so only used the shells, of which we have LOTS), and the pecan shells did give a lovely pale maroon color. I'd like to use green pecan hulls one year if I ever get my act together!
@@myownlittlehouse471 ahh I see , why not cook the shells for the dye? I wonder what a bag of mixed nuts costs these days? Might be a good experiment, for walnuts too here in the mountain I usually have to hunt under the leaves and deer step push them in the ground, making old hulls mushy, I remember as a kids hulling them after my foster father left them in a box a few months, my fingers even through gloves were a green brown black took months to go away lol