The weather was perfect for outdoor dyeing today. I’ve had another 10 pounds of walnuts soaking in a bucket for several weeks. Today I dumped it all into a kettle and simmered it, strained it, and added wool yarn. I dyed:

875 yards of a laceweight - 70% baby alpaca and 30% silk

1100 yards of Henry’s Attic Pony

600 yards of Kona superwash, fingering weight

400 yards of worsted weight in two skeins, one skein simmered only half as long as the second

I managed to finish before the rain and wind took over. Everything has been rinsed and now I am waiting impatiently for it all to dry so that I can see the final colors. Each yarn took the dye a bit differently. It’s all much darker than the batch of 1500 yards of bulky weight that I dyed in October, because today’s dye liquor is very nicely aged, and I simmered for close to three hours.

We had a lovely seafood paella for dinner, and reminisced about day-long Thanksgiving cooking sprees that are long past.