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Ellen Lewis

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This sweater I just finished for my daughter is made of commercial wool dyed with locally foraged mushrooms.

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Beautiful!!!
What skill, both your knitting and dyeing!

I've only dyed with a lichen once but never mushrooms....I never realized their range of color.

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Pretty colours!
I've not mastered colour changing yet in knitting. Maybe my next challenge (after socks...)

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Lovely! Are you able to ID the mushrooms used? If puff balls grow in your part of the world they are well worth trying. The ones that grow here in Oz produce nice brown/rust and even black.

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The purple and green and grayish green are Western Jackolantern, Omphalatos olivascens. The yellow is a variety of rustgills, Gymnopilus species. The rusty orange is old man's beard lichen, Usnea species. No mordants, most mushrooms don't need them.

Our puffballs are white and I don't imagine they give much color. However I have used the Dyer's Puffball or Dead Man's Foot, Pisolithus tinctorius, which isn't an actual puffball, to make a dark chocolate brown.

Colorwork is in some ways easier than socks, though socks are more portable.

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Beautiful work, Ellen!

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You are a fiber artist!

Well done, I'm blown away.

Do you have a rough estimate of the time it took for you to do this project? It sure does look like a labor of love.

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Ellen Lewis

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I think it was about two months of knitting, maybe an hour or so a day.
And a season of mushroom foraging, which is hard to calculate. It has to be the right time of year, and I have to get lucky while taking a walk out in a park somewhere and find mushrooms within reach because I'm old and not very limber.

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Plus I forgot to count rewinding skeins, chopping mushrooms, simmering mushrooms and yarn, drying, washing, untangling. Probably another twenty hours or more of all that.

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Gorgeous!!

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Thanks Ellen for posting the mushroom species - I can now chase up local equivalents, and see if I can ID "my" puffball.
Out of curiosity I once worked out how much time it took to make a sweater from fleece to finished product. Logged all the steps, and came up with 120 hours. That was for dyeing the yarn with a commercial indigo product.

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Absolutely beautiful! Amazing what natural dye can do!!

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Holy moly it's beautiful!

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