Been intending for a while to have a go with avocado skins, so managed to get a few reduced in the supermarket for an initial experiment. Skins and pits only, into the dye pot with small cotton pieces mordanted with alum. Very encouraging result, a very pretty shell pink colour. The pieces are unevenly dyed as I only used a small pot, but are fine for experimental pieces - I can incorporate pieces of them in other projects. I'll definitely be doing it again, next time on some knitting wool; the avocado skins can be kept in the freezer until you have enough for what you want to do.
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