Late Summer Flowers

The results of yesterday's harvest are interesting, as always. The Coreopsis yielded some quite strong orange shades; Yellow Cosmos, by far the palest flower, gave me good range of yellow tones; and the Rudbeckia (the most intense flower heads in shades of gold and brown) gave me three soft greens. You just never know! From the left, each set was mordanted with alum, copper and alum plus tin. I've decided not to use iron to 'sadden' a fourth skein, as the result is always brown or deep olive green. I have enough of these skeins to finish the project, so for the time being I'll concentrate on dyeing brighter, happier colours.