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.
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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 […]
Continue reading about Oh The Fiber- Dyeing a wool/cotton blend 2
I decided to try something different this week. I’m dyeing a 50/50 cotton wool blend. I have 2 oz of this blend to divide up into 1 oz increments. I thought it would be interesting to try direct dyes and acid dyes in the same colorway and then with two different colors to see […]
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In addition to playing with Yak fiber this week. I tried another natural dyeing project as well. I picked some Queen Anne’s Lace and steeped it on low for 2 hours. I mordanted some superwash wool in alum and cream of tarter for 90 minutes. Then I dyed the wool. Here is what happened. […]
I’ve spend the last couple weeks working with natural dyes. As I was doing this I was also amassing some of the local produce for my seasonal canning. First to the dyeing project the beets and plums produced some interesting colors. I used the plum pulp for some delicious plum jam. I also made strawberry […]
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I was feeling inspired after last weeks success with natural dyes. So I decided to embark on a project after getting so many plums last week. As I processed them to freeze for jam later. I realized the skins had a lot of color. I simmered them for about 3o minutes till all the color […]
