No problem. Lemmy seems to do that whenever there's a video in the link, it's not intentional.

Don't know either, but the thumbnail worked! Thank you so much!

It's a more expensive hobby in part because of all the tools, so if you can get them for free, that's awesome.

I wish I familiarized myself with kinds of leather and the processes for finishing edges before I got into it, so definitely check that out. Then just pick up some leather and try to follow a basic pattern to get the hang of it. Basic sewing skills are useful, too.

tandyleather.ca/ has a buttload of free patterns and how-tos.

Looks cool. Leather working is something I want to start getting into after I discovered leatherworking tools at my local library.

Figure I can replace crumpling leatherette with somethjng that will last longer.

Any tips for getting started?

I did post the link. I don't know why it automatically added the youtube video here. Just click on the thumbnail.

Maybe a non-youtube video?

Can you post the link, instead (or alongside) the embed? It gives me error 153 when I try to play the embed, and won't open in yt when I tap the button to open in yt.

It is very cool! It's great to eat and I really like that it grows tall. It looks fantastic when it goes to seed as well.

Definitely interested in making some dye from it too!

Cool! Indigo is so neat! Such a magical, stinky thing!

I just looked that up, what a cool looking plant. In my experience anything with a deep colour has been great for dyeing. You should give it a shot.

I hadn't heard of dyeing with it before, but I'm sure you can try. Interesting that it turns red, I wouldn't have thought of that.

Thanks for following my journey, hah

That's awesome you have knotweed growing right there! But I heard it's invasive as hell.

My marigolds are a deep orange already. To get different shades/colours you'd have to use a mordant (a metallic salt) and fine tune it from there. Sometimes I take small samples of my dye bath and mix in different mordants to see how they'll change the colour. Typically, iron darkens and copper brightens.

If you can't get a hold of seeds out there, I can see what I can do. Otherwise, I get most of my dye seeds from https://www.saltspringseeds.com/

Some plants concentrate their colour (anthocyanins) in the roots, true. I grew some madder and murasaki this year as well, but gave them away since I won't be around to harvest the roots when they're ready.

With coreopsis, amaranth and marigolds, colour comes from the flower, and with indigo you use the whole plant. I've gotten brilliant oranges from marigolds and coreopsis already.

From my experiments with dying usually you don't get colour from the flowers, usually the roots. I don't have much experience, but my attempts were underwhelming using the flowers.

The japanese knotweed is exciting. I've experimented a bit with using local knotweeds and could get a mild turquoise.

The marigold you have, is it the red-yellow leaves? I am harvesting a lot of marigold flowers this year, my variety is light orange. I've dyed a not-too-bad yellow with it - what do you do with it to get reds and oranges?

If only I could get my chaotic household and farm on track again to carve out time for dyeing - your posts are a real inspiration to keep working on that. Thanks for sharing! How difficult/expensive would it be to post some seeds to Southern Europe? I'd love to make the amaranth and indigo part of my garden family!

Nice, now I'm curious about what plants that grow around my town could be used to make dyes. I know native plants that are related to Genista tinctoria that also have been used to make yellow dyes. There's also a lot of Hypericum perforatum, when put in olive oil it stains it deep red, I guess it could make a good dye for fabrics.

Looking forward to hearing how it goes. The amaranth looks a lot like the 'Magenta Magic' orach that I grow for food (eaten like spinach), which I think is in the amaranth family. It's probably my favourite plant and I'd be really interested to see if it could also be used as a dye.

That Masu box is probably the most useful origami thing there is.

these are beautiful, especially in the textures! mushrooms are one of my favourite things to draw and it's always cool to see how other people draw them too!

Note to self: Take meds.

Thanks!

You can make lots of cool things with coloured balls. I've made rainbow strings of them for earrings.

I felt them in, I find it easier to get the veiny look with twisted bits of wool rather than embroidery. But you can get some cool textures mixing embroidery and felting.

Lovely! Are the veins felted, too, or stitched? I think this is how I'm spending my Saturday.

Ooh beautiful! I started needlefelting randomly coloured balls, but these are extra neat!