Lesson One Onion Dyeing Dear Diary,

Pastel shade of wool are sometimes difficult 

to work into a primitive penny rug.

Sometimes it is difficult to find just the 

right shade of recycled wool.

Don't pass on those pastel shades Ladies.

Difficult to believe you started with pale 

pinks, mauves and orange pennies.

This is a sample of the pale pennies in a full

strength 'mother' dye bath.

Onion dye is also wonderful to 

dye cottons and threads.

It gives a nice 'old' look to those cottons.

The 'mother' onion dye is the water straight from the

dye pot with the onion skins.

Half water and half of the 'mother' dye gives you

more shades from the same pastel wool.

Those same pastel pennies go in a dye bath of

two parts water to one part 'mother' dye and 

four parts water to one part 

'mother' onion dye,

Four shade of pennies from the 

same pastel penny circles.

I have shown only a few shade of pastels

but what would happen if you 

included darker shades..plaids..

very ugly reds and blues and greens.

Beautiful multi antique and 

primitive shade of pennies with only

a few onion skins and some ugly wool.

Next lesson I will show how to 

make the 'mother' batch of dye.

Pots and everything you need to 

start dyeing wool the very easy,

very simple and primitve way.

Ladies save those onion skins and 

get out your really ugly wool!

Until tomorrow..

cee