Golden Rod & spiceBush

Plant #2 & #3 are Golden Rod & Spicebush. For this one, I took the gorgeous brilliant yellow blooms from the Golden Rod and mixed it with about a million fallen Spicebush leaves in September. Once I filled a pot with the mix, I covered it with water and let it sit overnight until I had a fire for it to simmer on the next day. They just made a beautiful amber color in the pot, and I would say a golden yellow on the Cotton/Hemp 8/2 Yarn. In my next post, when I dyed with Golden Rod on its own, it seemed a bit more unstable on the fiber, was splotchy, so I will work on that next time around. In the next post, I play by added Iron to a Wingstem dye bath to see what changes I get.