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!
Lol!! I had a pot of mushrooms cooking down in the carport a few years ago. Came home from running errands & was about knocked over by the smell. Or should I say stench? And yes, without modifiers it’s difficult to get anything other than beige from them. I usually just take the shroom pics & let them live another day.
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DeleteMy 'experiments' with mushrooms have always only yielded a dull beige too....but my friend! She's gotten blues and oranges. She lives in a different area and that may be key, but I will keep trying. Thanks for sharing your experience!
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