Natural Dye - Day 4, Blackberries

Day three of natural dyes consisted of washing the wool and letting it dry. Not super interesting.

So ya know how I blended the blackberries and then DIDN'T strain it, cuz it felt like a lot of work?

Learn from my mistakes and laziness. There's a really good reason to do it. Because I didn't I now have bits of blackberry skin and seeds stuck all over my wool. I suspect a lot of it will flake off when I spin or knit/crochet with it, but still.... should have strained it.

In the meantime, it dried it a soft pinky purple colour - not the blue-ish purple one blog suggested I might get.

Before

After

Before

After

The non-mordant wool turned out the same colour, maybe a shade lighter, but not by much. I suspect tho that over time the non-mordant wool will fade back to something closer to this original colour. 

So there you have it. Some experiments in natural dying. 

Now to make something with it...