If you ever get the urge to stuff a pillow with 8 pounds of organic buckwheat hulls, don't. Well, you might, but I found the result too firm. Plus it's noisy when you move it. If anyone has any suggestions for using the buckwheat hulls for something else, please let me know.
I am going to try again with 4.5 pounds of organic natural shredded latex rubber, stuffing a pillow protector and a pillow slip that I threw into one of the indigo vats I ran this week. I did a colour remover vat and a Spectralite vat following Jenny Dean's directions for the hydrosulfite indigo vat. The Spectralite vat gave less colour.
Will be demonstrating språng today at a local fibre festival.
The handspinning demonstration, at a local museum last week, went well. I used my spindle and gave away a lot of 8 inch-ish pieces of handspun wool yarn, mostly to children.
Update: the latex pillow worked out very well. It only took about 2.5 pounds of shredded latex.
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