Fibers & Clothing Week 2

This block has been so much fun! Here are some notes from Week 2.

Week 1: Wool Experiments, Washing Molly's Raw Wool, Carding & Spinning, Wet Felting

Week 2: Natural Dyes, Mohair & Cashmere, Yarn Store Field Trip, Silk, Crochet Special Guest

Monday, February 11

• review wet felting, make wet felted soap stones
• draft Wet Felting for MLB
• read The Goat in the Rug by Charles L. Blood and Martin Link
  
• try natural dyeing in the crockpot (wool batting, eight chopped fresh beets, white vinegar, 12 hours on low and 10 hours on keep warm)

Tuesday, February 12

• look at A Dyer's Garden: From Plant to Pot, Growing Dyes for Natural Fibers by Rita Buchanan, compare pictures of the same dye with different results on different fibers and with different mordants
  
• predict color of our wool, check on results of crockpot experiment
  
  fiber - white wool batting
  dyestuff - beetroot
  mordant - white vinegar
• look at and feel two fibers from goats: mohair and cashmere
• read The Legend of the Persian Carpet by Tomie dePaola
  
• Yarn Store Field Trip: The Yarn Shoppe in Herrin IL

Thursday, February 14

• add Wet Felting to MLB
• review natural dyes, draft Natural Dyes for MLB
• look at and feel Nuno wet felted scarf by Andi LeBeau
• look at our silkworm eggs (which have been colder than 75-85 degrees and are not yet hatching) and the remaining items in the Silkworm Discovery Kit
• read Silkworms by Sylvia A. Johnson, stopping to look at cocoons (both broken and whole non-living)
  

Friday, February 15

• Crochet Special Guest: Anna O'Neil from MyLittleCrochetables
  
• add Natural Dyes to MLB
• read A Single Pebble: A Story of the Silk Road by Bonnie Christensen
  
• read Animals Marco Polo Saw: An Adventure on the Silk Road by Sandra Markle
  

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