Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Diverting Birch Leaves




Box, after Box, after Box.....with the regular life of laundry and meals for three children squished in between. The Custom-Stress-Management-Plan I follow is to THEN....do something entirely unecessary :-) I am really good at this; it might be my best skill, in fact: Diversion.

Out of a box in Ian's room came a book from Norway on woods and wool -- there was a recipe to dye wool with Birch Leaves AND I just happened to have opened that very day a large box of Norwegian Wool. Perfect.

The dye water was sort of glowing green -- but look at how it turned out to be such an beautiful yellow! I dyed the Norwegian Wool and also some silk roving -- the small hank of spun yarn made me think of Ramen. ;-)

That led to another diversion... ha ha ha!

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