On Sunday the Third Sunday Spinners gathered at our house and whipped up two dye pots using onion skins and alum in the one and thirty year old cochineal and alum in the other. Each of the three of us dyed one skein of yarn in each pot. But there seemed to be plenty of color left in each one. Sherri put some wool in the onion skin pot and got lots more lovely yellow color. I put eight ounces of Cormo roving in the cochineal pot and got some lovely pinkish lavender. Then I added eight more ounces of Cormo to the cochineal and got a bluish lavender. The yarns have dried but we need some sunshine to dry out the Cormo roving so I can begin to turn that into a variegated lavender yarn! Starting to dream of the possibilities for the finished product!
Queen Mary 2’s arrival in the Port of Dakar, Senegal was heralded in the local press and greeted with ceremony. Our own excursion took us on a coach journey through the streets of the capital city to visit a Wolof village and the shore of Lake Retba, the salty lake famed for an intense pink color.
Today’s safari adventure transported us out into the Dorob National Park to have up close encounters with little creatures that are well adapted to the extreme heat and lack of water in the Namib Desert.
With a UNESCO World Heritage Site, two national parks, dozens of museums, and hundreds of tours offered in the Cape Town area there is more than plenty to do. For our two day visit we opted to concentrate on African wildlife visiting the Aquila Private Game Reserve and the Boulders Beach Penguin Colony for a wonderful chance to these fabulous animals in their own habitat.
On Sunday the Third Sunday Spinners gathered at our house and whipped up two dye pots using onion skins and alum in the one and thirty year old cochineal and alum in the other. Each of the three of us dyed one skein of yarn in each pot. But there seemed to be plenty of color left in each one. Sherri put some wool in the onion skin pot and got lots more lovely yellow color. I put eight ounces of Cormo roving in the cochineal pot and got some lovely pinkish lavender. Then I added eight more ounces of Cormo to the cochineal and got a bluish lavender. The yarns have dried but we need some sunshine to dry out the Cormo roving so I can begin to turn that into a variegated lavender yarn! Starting to dream of the possibilities for the finished product!
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