Goldenrod lives up to it's name

Oh the wonders of weeds, I pay nothing, and yet they give me so much.  This one smells like heaven, by which I mean it filled my kitchen with the aroma of honey and flowers. The smell even made it's way into the wool. So delicious!

harvest flowering golden rod tops flowers only, strip flowers off of stems

weigh out 400 g and stuff into pot, bring to simmer 1 hour remove goldenrod and toss into compost Add 1 tsp alum to pot

Add 40g of wool and 5g cotton that had been mordented with 1 tsp alum, on low heat for 1hr

simmer together for 1 hr

cool overnight in dye wring out dry for a day wash dry again goldenrod dyed wool and cotton in center of image