When I left off on Monday, I was still thinking the colors would come out muddled. This is the 2 color roving. I put the fiber in wet. Here is the 3 color roving. I did notice as I added more colors they did come out a bit muddier. As the dye I’m […]
I heard about kettle dyeing in multi-color but I wasn’t sure how well it would work. My thought was that the colors would just move about in the dye solution and muddy colors would be the result. I finally decided to jump in and try it. I took 2 4oz lots of superwash roving. The […]
Picking up where I left off yesterday I pulled the fiber from the dyebath and let it dry. It came out great the angora did not felt even in boiling water. The control came out gorgeous. The Angora had no felting even after all the boiling. I think it will mix nicely with some […]
The post for this week was suppose to be on Masham Sheep wool but I pulled it at the last minute while I wait for information from Masham Sheep Breeders Association. I decided to try dyeing fiber in Ziploc baggies. Supposedly you can dye in the bags and it will prevent you from having to […]
This week has been a beautiful week. I did some canning on friday. The animals were really enjoying the great weather. I did get some work done on my newest sweater. Aussie helped us get hay this week.
I bought some white welsh mountain sheep roving to play with. It looks a bit kempy but I kinda like the look of the kemp. I love how it dyed up. Here is my spinning sample. This is definitely not a next to skin fiber in fact from everything I read it is mainly used […]
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It has been an interesting week with me being somewhat layed up. I didn’t get outside much to take pictures but I did get a good amount done while sitting. I got my desk area cleaned up which I was inspired to do by Larissa the assistant editor at Interweave Knits. I’ve finished my […]
The wensleydale fiber dyed up beautifully. The fiber is absolutely gorgeous. I plan on carding or combing some up to spin by friday. I finished the parts of my baby sweater just need to block, sew and weave in the ends. Here is the progress on my sweater just 5 more inches […]
I finished some more canning this week. Chelsey and Kenny helping to prepare the peaches for canning. About half done with the peaches. There is peach jam on the left and canned peaches on the right. Here is the cotton/wool blend all spun up. I also got a lot done on my sweater. It […]
I finished my dye jobs. The fiber came out really interesting. The first colorway is the one I did with direct dyes and acid dyes in the same colorway. Here is the second in 2 different colorways. Here is some of the spun fibers from my natural dyeing experiments. Here is some other lovely fiber […]
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