Volnene nogavice 1 - Wool socks 1

Z vejicami od obrezovanja jablan sem pobarvala domačo volno. Brez galuna sem dobila tole lepo breskovo roza, ki bi bila po "Name That Colour" lahko Chardonnay, #FFCD8C, RGB: 255, 205, 140. Pri naslednjih barvanjih v isti kopeli je barva prehajala v marelično roza in nato proti "roza" s precej manj marelično oranžne, ki je ne znam opisati.

I used apple tree trimmings to dye some wool of our native sheep. Without alum I got this nice peach pink that would correspond to "Name That Colour" Chardonnay, #FFCD8C, RGB: 255, 205, 140. The following dyeings in the same bath gave colours moving towards "light apricot, #FDD5B1, RGB: 253, 213, 177".

Pri teh nogavicah sem še posebno ponosna na peto, ki sem se jo naučila januarja in februarja na tečaju tete Vide na Kovkovem. V realnosti je zelo tridimenzionalno, kot satje.

What I'm especially proud of in these socks is the heel that I learnt in the course given by Aunt Vida on the Kovk farmstead last January and February. In real life it looks 3D and looks what I would call honeycomb pattern.

Pa še dve sliki nogavic.
Two more pictures of the socks are shown below.

Zmanjkalo volne - Ran out of wool yarn

Za tole malenkost mi je zmanjkalo volne. A ni to grozno? Morala bom levo nogavico malo sparati, pa narediti malo krajšo, potem še desno malo sparati...

I ran out of yarn for this little bit. Ain't it horible? I'll have to unravel the upper part of the left sock, make it a bit shorter, then unravel the right one a bit .... grrrrh

Sicer je pa volna barvana kontaktno s koreninami rabarbare in s skorjo nekega grma, za keterega sva s kmetom mislila, da je mogoče krhlika, pa ni. Če bi bila, naj bi dala rdečo (doslej sem dobila samo roza).

Anyway, the wool yarn was contact dyed with rhubarb roots and the bark of a bush that was believed (or hoped) to be alder buckthorn (Rhamnus frangula). If it were it was to yield red (so far I have only obtrained pink).     

Mi je pa precej všeč to prelivanje sive, rjave, rumene, celo malo rdeče na nogavicah.

I must say I quite like the variegation of greys, browns, yellows, even reds in the socks.