MOON CAKE MANDALA: BYDP DAY 5

Above is a mandala of some of the yarn I have dyed so far (original photo altered by the Waterlogue app on my iPhone).  I had to leave out 4 skeins to get the rest in the photo!  Below is the actual photo of the dyed yarn without retouching. 

I wound the skeins into yarn cakes ready to be used in punching the rug, and they remind me of little colored moons or mandalas.  Since it's been a particularly gorgeous full moon this week, I thought a "mandala of yarn-moon cakes" would be appropriate.

I wasn't able to do any dyeing today--just too tired.  Ran minor errands, took a long nap, read a trash novel, and couldn't wake up enough to gather all of the yarns in one place until just before sunset.  That turned out to be good light for photographing such different values.

It's beginning to dawn on me that I won't be able to decide on the colors of the inner motifs in the rug until I am actually hooking it.  I am going to have to trust in trial and error.  If that is true, then I need to focus only on dyeing background (the various dark purples), since that is the part I'm certain about, and then begin hooking. 

Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing. 
(TS Eliot)

Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment.
(Ralph Steadman)