Ok, I've decided I just have to try some plant dyeing on this 4/8 worsted wool. Tomorrow I'm going to pick up some frozen blueberries and raspberries, beets, alum, cream of tartar, and vinegar from the grocery store. My parents are going to give me a bunch of onion peels eventually. I will ask around about coffee grinds. I've got some black beans that I'm very curious about. And carrots.
So the plan is to try 2 oz with beets, 2 oz with carrots, 4 oz with raspberries, 2 oz with blueberries and 2 oz with beans. I'm assuming either the blueberries and/or the beans will be disastrous, and I will want to overdye with coffee or onion peels depending on how they're disastrous. And then the last 4 oz, I will use the other. If all goes well, this will become part of a striped sweater.
Unfortunately, I spent all day web browsing re: dyeing, and I haven't knit anything! :(