Two days ago I shot in to my studio and turned off two vats before going to my mother in law's funeral. This latter event must have distracted me as as instead of turning one bath off I turned it up. This morning I went into my studio and realised immediately I had burnt a pan of raspberry colour merino tops. Then I saw there was ash on the floor. To my horror I realised that my electric ring was red hot, the wonderful old teak bench - originally an old school chemistry lab bench- had a hole burnt right through it, I am still feeling somewhat shaky at what might have happened. If it had been anything else but teak I think my whole studio would have gone up in flames but as it is as you can see I have a hole. Still have not confessed to dh!
The fermented buckthorn bark is still giving colour. I added 100g of merino tops and within two days the tops were a deep gold that changed to orange in the air.
Oh Helen! How horrible. It is so fortunate that nothing worse happened. What a hard way to learn a lesson.
ReplyDeleteOh, yikes!! I do feel for you, but yes, it could also have been so much worse. This is *exactly* the sort of thing I do when I'm tired, rushed or otherwise 'fuddled' and I live in terror of something going horribly wrong as a result. Breathing a big sigh of relief for you...
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad it wasn't worse. Does your DH read your blog?
ReplyDeleteDh has now seen the damage and we both feel very lucky not to have returned home from the funeral to a pile of ashes! :( All the merino tops hanging up to dry now small of woodsmoke quite nice really!)Actually he does not read my blog so could have got away with it!
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