Alkanet is a root and it stinks when you cook it. In theory you can get purples from it but I did not. I did get a lovely warm gray with a touch of purple but I'm not feeling the love to do this again.
I may have felted the fibers a bit too since I was bit impatient with the whole process.
Onions skins red and yellow.
20 grams of skins, 20 gram of fiber and I'm love the orange I got with this.
A bit of handspun with onions skins
Osage Organge:
Mordant the yarn some mystery yarn and some Lion Brand Fishermens Wool.
onion skins, walnut sock yarn and the alkanet.
I like your orange and red colors you've gotten with this batch of dyin. Good job!
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