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Here is the dyed version of the scarf I posted Saturday. The ends have been twisted and then the dyeing began. I think this has real potential to become interesting work. Here’s an up close of the fabric. As I suspected the two yarns took the dye differently… now of course I’m thinking of doing different patterns [...] Hey I realized I forgot to do F. Well F is for my favorite events – Fiber Festivals. Today was the first one of my season. A little local event sharing in mohair goat shearing and with various vendors setting up shop around the farm. I’ve had this inkling to do some special blends lately between my dyeing and carding. What I’ve been doing is dyeing batts of 3 different colors and then after they are dry I separate them and card them together trying to keep things as even as possible. This batch was special, as it was [...] About a month ago my little gang came over for a dye day. Since we have a new spinner in the group (Hi Beverly!), I convinced her to dye wool. (We actually have a couple new spinners.) Well, needless to say sometimes the studio is more like the mad scientists cave and accidents [...] With our snow day, I was inspired to dye some more this week as I’ve been carding the first batch up of lovely rovings, which I can’t wait to spin. Even though I missed out on the NaSpiMoMo my beautiful reds and pinks fits perfectly with the fire theme of Project Spectrum. So this is what we woke up to this morning and the sun was already up. It continued to snow and snow and snow all day long, which is perfect for carding fiber, dyeing, and of course knitting. A couple of weeks ago our knitting group decided we wanted to get together for our first dye day of the year. We had such a blast. My studio and basement space provided a good working area and we could set up a lot of stations, so it went quite quickly. Here [...] First the dyepot has been cooking again. My friend wanted a girly pink to knit some socks for her daughter. I had some bare and here is the delightful result. Isn’t it fun and bright pink! Perfect for a dull winter day. This is the beginning result of my dyeing experiment. Looks a little wild, right? Almost dry now and then I can do a little drum carding and blending and [...] So one of the thing I love most about knitting and really crafting in general is the books. I’ve had quite a stash enhancement session as I basically won a $80 gift certificate to Amazon in the form of a bet… then I’ve had a few on pre-order that I always forget about and [...]  |
 
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