Tuesday, May 20, 2008

I'll take "Things that are yellow for $200"

I dyed some yarn with garlic mustard leaves this weekend. I know what you are thinking... boiling the leaves of a plant called "garlic mustard" must have been stinky. It was.

The resulting dye is a greenish yellow. This will soon be a lacy garlic mustard scarf!


Here are long awaited photos of the old-timey wallpaper we unearthed in our upstairs bathroom. Dunno what happened to the last ones in an old post, but I tried a billion times to fix it. Or like, three. Here is the old and older wallpaper without the derisive commentary.


2 comments:

  1. Garlic Mustard was introduced to North America in the 1860s, so our house has been around longer that the plants have been here!

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  2. Garlic mustard is the second major nectar crop of the year in the NE, right after the willows. The bees love it.

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