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Love this scarf! So happy.

Epiltome - pronounced "e pit o me"

A little awkward....but what does "Wolden" means? I googled it, both in Dutch and English, but i can't find an explanation. And now everytime i am watching your channel , it keeps me wondering.🤔

Melissa ??? Dry it and make tea it's delicious ❤ for what concerns colouring stuff with natural things I always think about the fact that it is a long process that requests patience to be done. Then it is enough for a bit of blackberry jam on a white t-shirt to stain it forever with no way to clean it 😅

Beautiful color effects! 😍😍😍

Really lovely scarf. Great colours and textures.

Cool

Maybe too late, but I just order a support spindle from Kravelli! I have had a lot of people tell me they are so so so beautiful to work with (:

Nice jumper.

Hello there. Did I see you carding a raw fleece base layer when you made a batt for sock making? I am wondering if I should try this. Is this how you would normally prepare fiber for spinning sock yarn?

Just came across your video and I have to say, I love your presentation style. One way to make it even easier would be to card it into rolags and then it would be a true woolen. But your video style is infectious

I love this jumper! I wonder if red onion skins give red dye?

I love your sweater!

Very pretty jumper - love the colours with the white edges.

I'm in a similar situation, would love my garden wild and free, but I foster cats so I'm obligated to treat our property against ticks, and to do so have to mow, which requires some percent of the space to be just grass. Love your dye adventures, it's so inspirational! This gray bluish tone is gorgeous!

Asuming i am correct that your spinning wheel is a vintage ashford, you should be able to fix the loose maiden by tightebing the screw on the underside. You can flip over your MOA and there should be a screw underneath

Good morning!! Lol,shame on you for letting your 4 o'clocks reseed......efficient not lazy!!!!! You should see my snapdragons😂. I am also efficient! Another happy video, have a fabulous today, Steph

I don't dye but love me some 4 O'clocks. They are beautiful & reseed themselves. Your garden is amazing! Very much like the iron water color!👍👌

What a fun project! I have spun flax before, but it was already prepped for me. Also, thank you for your wonderful (and descriptive!) closed captions! ADHD means I sometimes miss part of a sentence, and it's nice to be able to catch up on what I missed.

8:36 Time for my new favorite game of seeing how many blurry screencaps it takes to ID something in Jente's yard! My app had a really hard time figuring out this lovely white flower, so we have a list of contenders. Based on absolutely no expertise of any kind, I think the most likely on the list is Crane's bill (Geranium rivulare Vill.) but other possibilities include Herb-Robert (Geranium robertianum L.), Sticky Stork's-bill (Erodium lebelii Jord.), Common stork's bill (Erodium ciconium L'Hér.) and Starwart (Spergula arvensis L.). I would be mightily curious to see if you think any of these match your garden resident! Thank you for sharing as always ❤ Love the dye experiments

Hmm. I've heard that smushing seeds before you put them in water might help with releasing good juices, although I don't know if that will work for dye, or for these specific seeds. I also don't know if the seed insides are poisonous or not. I could also be entirely wrong. Also, thank you for the video, this was lovely to watch and I always enjoy your commentary :)

I'm in love with this dress. The dinosaurs are so cute!! The barbie pink is honestly perfect. The Dinos demand to be the center of attention!

Ooooh so excited you tried the mirabilis! I believe the ladies from Papua crush the seeds, which yields a much more intense colour, (bright pink). They are easily crushed with a mortar and pestle. The whole mess can then be contained in a fine gauze bag … easier clean up, which I am all for. I don’t like cleaning lol! 😂 I also think the colour yield may be different depending on what type of soil the plants are growing on. Even so, I think the results you got are interesting. Was very surprised at the colours you got. Clearly the mordant plays a big part as to what the colour you end up with. I am pretty sure there is a TH-cam video on bilum making (the bags the ladies in Papua make), where they are processing the mirabils and you can clearly see how bright the pink is. Like "in your face pink" … 😊 Would love to see you do a test with crushed seeds. Think that might be the key. Thanks for taking the time to give this a try … 😜

If you trim the alder tree regularly you can keep it small enough that the neighbours shouldn't complain too much.

I wish I was allowed a wild growing yard. I know I push my luck with holding off mowing so the dandelions can be utilized by the bees.

Our backyard is wild, but if the front yard gets too wild we'll get fined by the city

I had a similar grey result with acorns.

Love your garden. The wilder the better!

Would it make a difference if you smashed the seeds up I wonder make sure you remind people not to scour there wool with eucalyptus wool wash if they want to dye it later ,as it inhibits the take up of colour. My husband is the grass yard person.I am still trying to convert him after fifty years of marriage I don’t think I will make it now. I do have it down to a small patch now though,but not all are dye plants or give decent colour just what I like to look at in the garden.ha,ha.

what fun!! lovely yard! we bought the city lot next to us. somehow it never grew. no weeds. nothing. then come to find out...the city still sent a man to weed eat every month. lol.we are old...i thought my hubby weed eated the lot and forgot he did it. lol. i loved your wild garden. Now when things grow back...they will be multi-fold in floral beauty! have a lovely day!

Pollinator gardens are pretty popular where I live in the Southern US.

Keep it as wild as you want and tell the neighbours you have a prarielandscape garden🤣thanks for entertaining video👌😀

I have kids and a dog, so we need a fair amount of yard space for them to run and play freely. We do have grass in both our front and back yards, but I don't do anything except mow. No fertilizer, no water other than what falls from the sky or is added when my kids play in their sprinkler, no pampering at all. We've had curly dock and dandelion spread through the yards, and I'm looking into native ground covers that may be useful for dye as well, but stand up to lots of foot traffic! Also, super happy you tried the seeds! My dad has tons of four o'clock plants, and I have several as well, so I guess I'll be giving this a go myself!!

This is just further motivation for me to try out the pineapple chamomile I’ve found in my neighborhood. What’s the worst that can happen?

Oh wow… that was quite the dramatic change with iron oxide. I really like the cold blueish grey it produced. As of your garden: I do my best to diversify the vegetation in my wild patch as well. I’ve even gone as far as sowing a wildflower mix in there. The stinging nettles were completely taking over and too much of a good thing isn’t always wonderful. So I tackled the nettles, turned the soil and sowed wildflowers. Turns out the soil was too rich, a result from that part of the garden being a chicken enclosure for a few years. I’m not giving up. Poppies went in (they like disturbed soil) and I’m working on anything that can help in keeping those stinging nettles in control. No need to eliminate. As long as peaceful cohabitation is possible, I’m happy. I just don’t want to get evicted by them! But if it’s local and it flowers, it gets an invitation!

I totally understand the wild yard anxiety! I have it too :( I decided I would design a way to have a structural wild yard for next year so it looks intentionnal ... but also I dont know what I'm doing xD I vote for growing the alder tree! :D worst case you trim it if it gets too big :)

Cool, that reaction with the iron was so dramatic! Natural dyeing is so fun, it feels like being some sort of mad scientist :)

Great work! I'm sad the color wasn't more intense, but great job. I love your wild yard. I live in an area where the city will fine you if you just let your yard grow long. Although, i don't think they'd care if I had a fenced in backyard like yours, but I do not. However, we also have lots of invasive species to fight against, which takes lots of management, so just letting the whole yard grow long doesn't have the desired effect anyway. I have, however, been able to grow more and more native plants with careful management of the yard.

Yes! More natural dye!!

Strawberries and cream top. Looks delicious. 🍓🍓🍓🍨🍨🍨

I think it would look great as a capelet or shoulder shrug!

Like your yarn! Its very Special! I make my First cableyarn,and it was learning and practice, Oh, sometimes i was sorry! Because i have Not much twist in the First Singles! Oh gosch! I am a fighter! I make it with a harsch wool called Coburger Fuchs, and at the end i dye it in colors with fushia And Erika! Prooooouuud!!!❤❤❤

Maybe in the future make a swatch of your interesting and unique spun yarn. It would be wonderful to demonstrate the kind of fabric they produce xx

Highly recommend making the conditioner in a double boiler. Bottom pot has water and put a canning jar or other reusable glass jar with a tight fitting lid. Put the ingredients in the jar, and let them melt together from the hot water. You can’t actually fry the oil like this, and they’re already in a jar so that you’re not getting it all over your pan.

Was an absolute blast watching your fibre shenanigans while spinning up my own concoction of fibre goodness … 😁 I recently made 70+ rolags from Merino, sari silk, eucalyptus fibre and other bits and pieces. Spinning up a real lumpy, bumpy yarn and I love it!! Was very nervous about using the eucalyptus fibre (a first for me) as it is so slick and silky and pretty difficult to control, but I’m so glad I did! I think your finished yarn is lovely and almost the same colours as the butterfly … ❤️ I used to see them all the time as a child living in the UK, so that brought back some very fond memories … 😊

Love it!!

Scarf, hat, gloves and socks next!

I love your green dress. Such intricate sleeves. The sweater is perfection. Light, beautiful colour, and gorgeous cable pattern.

Hi! I'm from Belgium too and I am so in awe of the fibre you are able to find locally. Do you have some tips for finding events/markets in the area? I was thinking of going to dag van de wol next week, but it's a bit too far away and I don't know other fiber people to join me on the drive :)

Very interesting background 😊