Here are our results:
Top to bottom: Dandelion, grass, berries, tea. The yarn running vertically is the undyed yarn. We concluded that of the materials we used, the tea worked the best.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
A New Coat for Anna
This week we are reading A New Coat for Anna by Harriet Ziefert. Today we took our measurements like the tailor in the story and compared G's measurements against mine. Then we went out for a nature walk to collect different colored items for dying yarn. We collected grass and leaves for green, we found one dandelion for yellow, we found some unidentified berries for orange, and we used a teabag we found in the kitchen for brown. Here's a picture of our yarn soaking in the hot colored water:
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2 comments:
Which was Grant's favorite? I'm surprised you found a dandelion in February! :)
He liked the one dyed with tea. I couldn't believe we found a dandelion either! Too bad we couldn't find more. I'm sure it would have made a big difference in how that piece of yarn came out.
This would be fun to do again in the summer when we could try different kinds of berries as dye.
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