Just Friday

As a Mom who has let her kids attend Midnight showings for movies, I have to say I am so upset about the shootings in Aurora, Colorado. My prayers are going up for you today.

Earlier this week, I got a package for dying cloth. I have been frustrated because I couldn't get the colors I wanted or the look I wanted so I broke down and bought a book. I am very happy with the product. I found this package on a website called Pioneer Primitives. She had a package that included a dye book, spoons, the five dyes needed and the swatches for the colors you could make out of these five packages of dye.

The book explains how to mix the Cushing dyes and then the right measurements to get each color.

 So out of the five dye packages you can get all of these colors. I am so excited and I can't wait to dye some more wool.

Yesterday while I was waiting for my beets to cook so I could can them, I made up all of these dye solutions.
I can't wait to see how it turns out. In the book the lady has step by step directions and they are really easy to follow so I think it will be fun and rewarding and I will get the colors I see in my head.

I only got 5 pints of beets out of the little bit I come up. I have had the hardest time with beets. I have soaked the seeds and I thought that would do the trick. So I was reading a blog and a lady was sharing how hard of a time she had with beets and she said they just started them in sets, so I am going to do that next year. I have had such better luck starting things in sets this year and it really has helped with the weed problem. I don't think these will last long, both of my daughters said they were going to take a jar and eat it all by themselves.

Us girls around here love beets. The guys not so much. I think it is we might need iron and beets are very high in iron.

Have a lovely day and I hope a nice weekend. Our humidity is gone this morning so it feels a bit better. We will be over a hundred all weekend and into next week though.

Bye for now,
~Kim~