Category: PÃ¥ dansk

Elderberry juice

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8 liters should be enough to see me through the winter storms, served hot with a twist of lemon, honey and fresh ginger! Thanks to this wonderful contraption that my mother gifted me a few years ago. Instead of boiling and straining, you steam the berries. Just add water in the bottom container, 3 kg of berries + 1 kg of sugar in the top, and the juice collects in the middle.

Next week I’ll be back on my usual subject matters, I promise. Spinning wheel is going to get dusted for instance.

danishLidt hyldebærkoncentrat takket være den dejlige “saft-Maja” jeg har fÃ¥et af min mor. SÃ¥ kan jeg klare vinteren med varme drikke tilsat citron, honning og frisk ingefær, nams!

Næste uge lover jeg at holde mig mere til de sædvanlige emner. 😉 Lidt spinderi bliver det nok til!

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You must be joking, right?

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Somebody has been having a very long vacation. Said vacation is now officially over! Last year I tried to teach the two remaining ponies to be free longed together in preparation for “ponying” the little one when I ride. (for the non-horse savvy this means towing him along on a rope). Little brown boy has a very firm idea about such things and he’s having none of it, also called ponytude. So I need an assistant and there never seems to be the time for it no matter how we plan.

Anyway, I finally got my own A into G and started them off today, and they remember perfectly, we’re right where we left off. How cool is that?! Would be fun if we could get to doing various moves and tricks as well apart from going round in circles at various speeds and turning.

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“And now, cookies please”

Åh nej, ferien er slutdanish

Efter en meget, meget, meget lang pause, har jeg endelig taget mig sammen til at få rørt ponyprutterne lidt. Sidste år begyndte jeg at lære dem at blive løslongeret sammen som forberedelse til at tage den lille brune bisse med som håndhest når jeg rider den store. Han vælter nemlig rundt over det hele eller nægter at gå, og manden i huset har aldrig haft tid når vi ellers havde planlagt, når han har ferie har vi jo også en milliard andre ting som skal ordnes.

Men de kunne sørme huske det hele, vi starter fuldstændig hvor vi slap. Lige nu kan vi bare rende i rundkreds og skifte retning og tempo, men det ville være sjovt at arbejde med lidt tricks eller finesser igen – det bliver noget af en udfordring fordi den lille er arbejdssky og den gamle synes det er noget pjat, han vil kun pÃ¥ tur.

Still got the blues

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My first woad results this year. Next year I’ll focus more on these rather than doing many plants, I just hope it keeps spreading in my abandoned vegetable garden. I was glad to find that there’s plenty of colour in them even this late in the summer, old leaves with holes in them and all. I saved half my “potion” in what I hope is an airtight bucket for dyeing more later. I wanted the option to experiment more and besides, I ran out of Spectralite.

Left to right: woad x 2, tagetes orange, tagetes yellow, reeds, weld, birch (multiple dips)woad4

Silk:
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Farvevaid, Isatis tinctoriadanish

Det lykkedes at få noget ud af mine vaidplanter selvom bladene var gamle og ormædte. Den ene grydefuld har jeg sat på hold for at se om den duer senere, det skulle være muligt at gemme i en ilttæt beholder.

Det blev mest til overfarvning af forskellige gule, og så glemte jeg endda nogen af dem jeg havde planlagt. Tagetes orange fed, tagetes gult fed, tagrør, vau og birk dyppet 3 gange.

Fir cones 2

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Last year I did a brief experiment with cones and a rather boring result.

I wanted to know, however, if mordanting the yarn would make a difference, so I mordanted the original skein from last year with alum.

Got plenty of cones, boiled them good with some potash and waited until it had cooled and the pH gone down again. In with yarn, heat, sit in a bucket for 2 days.

The yarn is very dark chocolate brown when you take it out, like the dyebath, and feels oddly soapy?! But as soon as you rinse it, this is what you get:

kogle5I then added a silk skein and left in there for a few days. Disappointing light beige, so heated it for a bit. This looked so promising that I actually added the wool one more time! Simmered and left for a day. Very nice brown! Only… the day after they were dry and kinda pink…

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While I was blooded and believed in brown I entered one of my failed cotton skeins (the ones I’ve promised to talk about later). It was almost white with a hint of yellow spots.

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Remains to be seen if they are lightfast etc.

Grankogler (rødgran)danish

Sidste år lavede jeg et kort eksperiment med grankogler, som blev ret skuffende. Men jeg ville alligevel se, om bejdse gjorde en forskel, så jeg bejdsede samme fed og farvede det en gang til!

Sjovt nok er garnet en flot, mørk chokoladebrun når man tager det op, men så snart vandet er trykket ud og man skyller det, så bliver det meget lysere.

For sjov skyld kom jeg sÃ¥ et lille fed silkegarn i bagefter. Det lÃ¥ først i spanden et par dage, det gav kun en meget lys beige, sÃ¥ jeg varmede det op igen, og det sÃ¥ mere lovende ud. Faktisk sÃ¥ lovende, at jeg puttede ulden i en gang til! Fin brun – som blev til rosa, da de var tørret. Meget sært.

Motley crew

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I’ve been modifying and dyeing a few skeins here and there which I can’t be bothered posting separately.

Lady’s mantle with iron. Since the two hanks I did earlier were so similar, I thought I might as well modify one, I can’t remember why I didn’t do so immediately, but here it is.
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Watercolour solution, cold dyed. Tagetes and coreopsis. What I did after I was done testing was pop a hank of yarn into each jar with more iron, and it was so strong that they took up a dark colour instantly! No heat, just left them in there for a bit. Some rinsed out, but they’re still a lot different from my other yarns.
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Another batch of reeds, this time only alum mordanted, no CoT, and from the freezer to see if that ruined the plants. Complete succes, so having an abundance of this shade I overdyed some with woad.
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Blandet landhandeldanish

Lidt blandede fed, fra toppen er det Løvefod puttet i jernblanding, coreopsis og tagetes akvarelfarve tilsat jern og et forsøg med frosne tagrør og derefter vaid. Helt nederst alle dagens modeller linet op til fotosession.

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Today’s models lined up for photoshoot