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Hi, Claire,
What is a Harry Potter jumper?
Katherine

| On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 11:28:55 -0700, (Els van Dam) wrote:

I will slow down and get this right....I know you are not "rading"
anything...but i am sure you do read a lot

Els,

Whereas, *I* have been out raiding today.

I noticed on the way home the other day that there's a mulberry bush
sprung up in the ditch between the bike path and the road about 2 blocks
from my house. It's right by the entrance to the park, and the county tends
to mow the ditch with a big sickle bar on a regular basis, so I figure
nobody's going to mind if I give it a little pruning, to feed my silk
worms, especially where it sticks out into the bike path. Well that's my
rationale if anyone stops and says anything to me. I still feel like a
mulberry pirate, though. It's growing in full sun, unlike the ones in my
yard which are shaded by oaks, but the silk worms don't seem to mind.


Helen "Halla" Fleischer,
Fantasy & Fiber Artist in Fairland, MD USA
http://home.covad.net/~drgandalf/halla/

| On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 20:08:56 -0700, (Els van Dam) wrote:

nobody's going to mind if I give it a little pruning, to feed my silk
worms, especially where it sticks out into the bike path. Well that's my
rationale if anyone stops and says anything to me. I still feel like a
mulberry pirate, though. It's growing in full sun, unlike the ones in my
yard which are shaded by oaks, but the silk worms don't seem to mind.

I would have done the same thing, or rather I have done the same thing.
At the corner of my neighbours house, right in the road allowance grew a
large clump of Tansy. I dug some up before they came and cleared it.

My sister gave me some tansy in a large pot, which I only half sunk into
the ground and still have a devil of a time keeping it from spreading!

There are also lots of black berries growing in the ditch and on the road
allowance, but sadley the new owner of the house loves to clean up and
tansy and black berries are gone. I have several large clumps of tansy
growing on our lot now. Good dye plant but also a great flower palnt,
love the aroma as well. Righ where our recycle bins sit in Mill Bay,
there is a patch of wild bleeding hearts happely growing among all kind of
rubbish. I have dug a bit of it up as well and have the plants growing in
my garden. LOL

I love volunteer plants, but this is the furthest I've gone in raiding.
Other years I just asked permission to prune the mulberry behind the yarn
shop. Alas, the shop moved, but maybe the book store that expanded into it
won't mind if I supplement my own trees by pruning theirs again. I have a
little prickly pear in a pot, from a careful cutting I took in front of the
Mexican restaurant the last time we ate there right before they closed. Now
that they've moved down by the university we never get there. Feels like a
living piece of history. Now if I could just find some cochineal for it...




Helen "Halla" Fleischer,
Fantasy & Fiber Artist in Fairland, MD USA
http://home.covad.net/~drgandalf/halla/

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Now if I could just find some cochineal for it...




Helen "Halla" Fleischer,
Fantasy & Fiber Artist in Fairland, MD USA
http://home.covad.net/~drgandalf/halla/

That is what dreams are made of, some wishful thinking.....(big smile) i
have to look, I think I have a wee little bag of cochineal sitting
around. First I have to get a new campstove, our old one was not usable
anymore.

I do have lots and lots of Fernambuk or Red wood or Brazil wood. It is a
fantastic dye. Reds purples pinks etc. It is an old one as well.

Els

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| On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 09:18:08 -0700, (Els van Dam) wrote:

Now if I could just find some cochineal for it...

That is what dreams are made of, some wishful thinking.....(big smile) i
have to look, I think I have a wee little bag of cochineal sitting
around. First I have to get a new campstove, our old one was not usable
anymore.

I have some dried cochineal, too, but I was actually thinking of live eggs
to grow my own on that prickly pear!

I do have lots and lots of Fernambuk or Red wood or Brazil wood. It is a
fantastic dye. Reds purples pinks etc. It is an old one as well.

Oh yes, I've used Brazilwood. Wonderful stuff. One of our local weaving
shops sells bags of it. I also have some shavings of Osage Orange wood that
I need to get round to playing with. Ran into a guy hand carving a
traditional bow out of it and he let me have all his shavings.


Helen "Halla" Fleischer,
Fantasy & Fiber Artist in Fairland, MD USA
http://home.covad.net/~drgandalf/halla/

Els wrote:

I would have done the same thing, or rather I have done
the same thing. At the corner of my neighbours house, right
in the road allowance grew a large clump of Tansy. I dug
some up before they came and cleared it. There are also lots
of black berries growing in the ditch and on the road
allowance, but sadley the new owner of the house loves to
clean up and tansy and black berries are gone. I have
several large clumps of tansy growing on our lot now.
Good dye plant but also a great flower palnt, love the
aroma as well.

LOL Els...the dyer side of me is nodding approvingly re the tansy, and the
livestock side is making horrified little squeaking noises. bg Down here in
Oregon, there's been an active campaign going on for decades to get rid of as
much tansy as possible, because it's poisonous to grazing livestock. (it builds
up in their systems, and eventually kills them. if I remember right - not
guaranteeing this bit - they also get a taste for it, and keep wanting to eat
it.) Anyway, I can remember when living in the country on our 'hobby' farm -
all 10 acres of it, with 25 acres up the road - we would frantically grub up
any sprig of tansy that showed! With horses, cattle, and donkeys, we had *far*
too many animals that could be hurt by it.

But I *know* it's a really good dye-plant, and gives a nice yellow. I always
just read about it though. Mom and I never tried it when we were interested in
natural dyeing, because we'd been rooting it out of the pastures so well by
then, we never could find any!

Now, blackberries...those are Oregon's answer to kudzu. vbg The Highway Dept.
sprays 'em, but the blackberries don't care. They merrily take over again in
half a season or so. That's one berry most people with sense don't buy at a
store, because you can pick 'em all over the place. There are scads of good
places right in Portland where you can get gallons of blackberries in about
half an hour. Dad used to drag us out picking every summer so he could make
wine. ('out picking' being going to a spot about 10 minutes by car from home,
down by the railroad cut. g big trip, that.) Me, I preferred Mom's blackberry
cobbler and jam!

Monica - thinking about boysenberries and loganberries and strawberries and
umpteen other berries...man, I have *got* to grab my stepdaughter with her car
this summer, and go pickin'! I want cobbler, for some odd reason...

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*sigh* Not reading to the end of threads, again...

Helen, re that prickly pear - isn't the fruit also supposed to give a pretty
good dye? Pink, if I remember right...vaguely...from someplace-or-other...g

Monica

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home (CMM PDX2) wrote:

*sigh* Not reading to the end of threads, again...

Helen, re that prickly pear - isn't the fruit also supposed to give a pretty
good dye? Pink, if I remember right...vaguely...from someplace-or-other...g

Monica


slinkytoy where are you, ......she can tell you about the dye from the
prickly pear, last year I got enough prickly pear pink dyed fibers from
her, to spin up a generous skein.

Els

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Dear Katherine

In the first Harry Potter book, Ron's mother (Mrs Weasley) knits each of her
children a jumper and does one for Harry too. They are in different colours
(I believe Harry's is darkish red, will have to check that) with a large H
on the front. The other children have their own initial on theirs. In the
film the jumpers (which were knitted in Rowan Yarn who have the pattern and
kits for sale) were plain round neck jumpers with the initials on the front.
My son has really enjoyed the book so I thought that I would knit him one -
just a plain round necked jumper (I already have a pattern for that) with a
large P on it. I just have to work out how to make a pattern for the letter.
It doesn't matter if it isn't perfect. Mrs Weasley's knitting did not look
very professional - very home made jumpers. As long as I get the letter half
way up the front of the jumper and in the middle I'll be happy. Have to
finish the baby knitting I'm doing first though. She now has three teeth and
is frantically chewing on everything- including my balls of wool.

Claire


"Katherine" wrote in message
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Hi, Claire,
What is a Harry Potter jumper?
Katherine