I learned a little bit more than I had before about Queen Anne's Lace while doing this post, Christin! Apparently they are part of the carrot family . Poisin Hemlock apparently has a hollow stem vs. the solid one of QAL. And QAL is/was used to create a natural yellow dye for wool.
I've used onion skins for natural yellow dye. I make pickled onions for a couple of British friends, then use the onion skins to dye wool for another friend. Waste not, want not!
This is really interesting! It is amazing how generations used natural products to create colour. My daughter used onion peels in her soup stock to deepen the colour.
Sounds a bit like Wellington weather. We had a storm the weekend before last with torrential rain, and gale force winds (blew off one of the guttering from my house), a single digit celcius temperature. We then went back to more than 20 degrees celcius. It is meant to be Summer after all here. Queen Anne's lace looked a lot like elderflowers! I had to look it up before suggesting to you to make elderflower bubbly next time you see it :)
This reminds me of the other day on a walk with my wife
Her: Oh that's Queen Anne's lace! let me touch it maybe we can eat it
Me: No wait let me use iNaturalist app just in case
Her: *already touched it*
Me: -Scan- it's poison hemlock -_-
Her: Oop
I learned a little bit more than I had before about Queen Anne's Lace while doing this post, Christin! Apparently they are part of the carrot family . Poisin Hemlock apparently has a hollow stem vs. the solid one of QAL. And QAL is/was used to create a natural yellow dye for wool.
I've used onion skins for natural yellow dye. I make pickled onions for a couple of British friends, then use the onion skins to dye wool for another friend. Waste not, want not!
This is really interesting! It is amazing how generations used natural products to create colour. My daughter used onion peels in her soup stock to deepen the colour.
Sounds a bit like Wellington weather. We had a storm the weekend before last with torrential rain, and gale force winds (blew off one of the guttering from my house), a single digit celcius temperature. We then went back to more than 20 degrees celcius. It is meant to be Summer after all here. Queen Anne's lace looked a lot like elderflowers! I had to look it up before suggesting to you to make elderflower bubbly next time you see it :)
Here I was complaining about the winds around me. Then I read about the O2 roof blowing off in London, and I was chastened!