Hand-dyeing post 3 of 3: We still had some skeins left, so I blanched madder chips and dyed cotton in the blanching liquid (left, top); then made a dye bath (left, bottom).
Image 2 shows the difference between blanching liquid (orangey, left) and dye bath (red, right). Image 3 shows a closeup of madder on 4ply - I love this colour!

Dear Friends of followers,

I like to go where angles fear to dread. It is a hard job but no one has to do it ... Unless the AI #Borg have taken over. Maybe they did whilst I was waking/moulting.

I am glad my #desktop was ready-built, I would have gone #madder building it. The agony was hard enough getting an OS working. Anyway ... I have some leads on potential server software and MAY (heaven help me) try setting up hosted server space in the UK (pronounced yuck without the why). I tried this once, and ran hosted Tooting website in the past.

As a wer-lobster I am cack handed, which used to be illegal and is now part of #obscure lingustic wrong speech. So I am #wondering why I would want to open a server to see if I can connect a DVD drive? Have a feeling the server only accepts #SATA drives ... and hard drives at that ...

I was just booting into #Puppy #Linux. An Olde version and also the latest #community edition to turn a #USB #wifi #connection on (I am using the #ethernet connection for the #Ryzen3 server and this tiny USB connector was so cute). That looks like a major felafal.

Bit by byte. One step at an eternity. Soon I will be a godess of the internet or at least a hexpert novice

Have a grated day everyone. For example carrots and apple greated ... :-)

PS. Posting this from #Midori Browser for reasons beyond #comprehension ...​​

Here's some of my #handspun #yarn. It's from raw #cheviot #wool that I skirted, washed, combed, and #handspun. I made them into mini-skeins and then dyed them (right to left in the picture) with turmeric, #cochineal, #madder, marigolds, tea, a combo of the leftover marigold and some pomegranate on the tea base, and then two via a commercial tincture dip in green.