You start with a mountain of wool, right off the sheep...

There is more than a little 'processing' to do to remove the VM (wooly people talk for Vegetable Matter), the BM, the P, the grass, hay, burrs...Okanogan County women are not wusses. We go at it glove-less!

But, ah... the reward for doing all that processing-you get this!

More wool dyeing

Mostly Kool Aid* and food dye.

Procion fiber reactive dye, Kool Aid and/or food coloring.

 Wool takes color so well, so fast, so satisfyingly! I may not be able to stop dyeing until my wool runs out... A few more days and the sap will rise up enough for me to start following the recipes for vegetative dyeing. I have always wanted to do that with wool, because I get some nice color on my cottons, but the pix of wool are much more gratifying. It seems like most of the recipes out there say, "You can get this and this and this color with wool! Oh, and good luck with cotton."