Marked by Nature

You would think that this piece of rotting spruce

with it's lovely earthy red colour

would have created the colour

of yesterday's moon.

But no, not at all

what it helped produce were these soft

grey-greenish-brownish

colours

Thanks to Grace and Françoise and Diane

I now use slow cookers as my dye pots.

They seem to maintain just the right temperature.

The markings are glorious

the colours are soft

For someone who tends to cover

everything in stitch

it's going to be hard to

stitch lightly and resist covering up these glorious markings.