Ripe mulberries
A bunch of berries
The pie
The dye
The final color
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Pie and Dye
Andrew and I were walking Daisy on our usual route through the park this evening when Andrew noticed that the mulberry trees by the creek were loaded with plump, ripe mulberries. After our walk we got some containers and rode our bikes back and picked 4 quarts of them. After we got home I made a pie and then I decided to make a juice concentrate to dye some of my Satin Angora/BFL yarn. Unfortunately I only dyed one skein. If I had known the color was going to be so beautiful I would have done a couple of them. I will never be able to reproduce this exact color. The pie by the way was fabulous as the mulberries this year have exceptional flavor.
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Our 2 trees in the backyard are loaded with berries and birds. I love this time of year (except the purple bird droppings on the car) because so many different birds come to the trees. Last night i heard the prettiest song but could not see the singer.
Pretty color - will it be light fast? I've never tried that. Did you use a mordent of any sort?
What a beautiful dye color!
My parents cut down their beautiful Mulberry Tree because of the purple bird droppings...I loved that tree growing up as a kid- free snacks!
Love the draw of the mulberry tree for birds but like Lisa, don't care for the purple droppings on a white vehicle. :- (
I made a mulberry pie once but couldn't get past the internal stems of the berries. :- { Great flavor but it was like having a mouthful of bugs. :- P
All those green stems you see in the picture of the container of raw berries-we snipped them out with a scissors. Time consuming but well worth it. The pie was delicious. It's gone too....
I'm not sure I've ever seen mulberries before. They look like blackberries. Do they taste the same?
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