Mood:  bright

I'm getting back to normal.  Spent a little time yesterday thinking about how to structure my natural dye class at MAWS.  Was overwhelmed at the thought of how to mordant 10,000 yards. I know I have to get going winding skeins.  So today I'm going to start.   Each student is supposed to get 800 yards, so I decided to do 3 non-mordanted skeins (1 for cutch, 1 for black walnut overdyed with indigo, and 1 for indigo).  Then 5 mordanted skeins 3 with tin and 2 with alum.  So I need to wind 10,000  yards in 100 yard skeins.  That doesn't sound so bad.  My recent experience of being sick in Idaho Falls reminds me I don't want to wait too much until the last minute, so I'm going to setup a winding goal and try to get this done asap and into the mordants.    I also need to calculate how much cochineal to buy and get that on order.   I plan to mordant extra and if students have time they can buy some more if they want to keep dyeing.  AND I'll get to PLAY with the left overs.   Off to take sister to doctor because she gimped up her driving foot.  Starting another shawlette, so I plan to get the tricky Faroe Island setup established while I'm waiting at the doctor's office.  Linda