This hand-dyed blue-faced leicester: weaving procrastination. I think I’ve got too much on the go. I say this because I keep starting things and working on things but nothing gets done. My new woven scarf is a prime example; I think I started it a month ago, but I only work on it once a [...]
This past weekend I did some dyeing in a workshop I took as part of the Maiwa Symposium. These Maiwa ladies, they are organized, smart, and interesting. Just look at the fun we had: I’ve already been dabbling with acid dyes, but the Procion dyes for cellulose fibre and most of the natural dyes were [...]
My dyed silk, which I wasn’t going to bother posting, except that sweet C. gave me a 50mm lens for my birthday. So of course I had to try it out. This, I like a lot.
Just trying to make a bit more progress before I go on vacation. This morning I experimented with sewing thread to figure out what colour to dye the 12/2 silk I bought for the weft of my new weaving project. I think I’ve settled on the light green (on the left side) – I think [...]
I did some dyeing this past weekend. These are mostly merino – both the skeins and the roving. Yes, I’ve learned my lesson about throwing different fibres into the same dye pot. Actually, these went not into a dye pot but into my lovely new steamer that I picked up from Value Village for a [...]
Every time I dye I learn something new. Recently, I thought I was very clever when I cut a hank of undyed superwash yarn into little 2 gram skeins. The plan was to throw a mini-skein into every pot of dye so that I could save it as a record of my colour recipes. I [...]
I had concluded back in February that I could neither afford nor get the time off work to attend this year’s SOAR in Sunriver, Oregon. I was okay with that until we reached the registration date a few days ago, when I suddenly felt that I might have made the wrong decision. Ah, regret. I [...]
It happened last weekend: lovely local llama spun up with some wool. And then I dyed it this green-turquoise colour. My dye-mixing technique definitely needs some fine-tuning – despite my careful calculations, this wasn’t actually the colour I was hoping for. Still, it may be wearable in small doses. In my daydreams, I will knit [...]
The sun is finally out and my workshop dyeing photographed. It’s about time on both counts, since the workshop was almost a week ago, and the sun’s been gone for about a year and a half. The workshop was great. We did a range of kettle dyeing, hand-painting, and immersion dyeing. I stuck mostly to [...]
I’m very excited about my upcoming workshop with Felicia at sweetgeorgia on dyeing protein fibres. In preparation, I’ve been spinning as much as I can in my scant spare time. As pristine and lovely as they look now, I hope these skeins will look even better after immersion dyeing and handpainting with acid dyes next [...]