Posted in Dyeing, Spinning, Uncategorized on Jul 8th, 2008
This is just going to be a quicky update on my Tour de Fleece spinning, since that’s all I’ve been doing lately. This first yarn is various types of wool, soy silk, alpaca, and mohair from this roving. This yarn makes me happy, I think it’s all the colors and textures and the fact that [...]
Not too much to talk about today, I haven’t done much knitting or crocheting on my blanket lately, so let’s take a better look at the stuff I dyed yesterday.
First up is my wool. This is all superwash. The first on the left is two ounces in blue, purple and black. The middle is little [...]
Posted in Dyeing on Apr 28th, 2008
I dyed all of this today. I’s so tired and my feet are killing me. I think that some of my color combos are questionable (look at that second hanger from the right) and the soy silk didn’t absorb the dye that well but I’m really happy with my wool. I hope this will all [...]
Posted in Dyeing, Making Yarn Walkthough on Apr 14th, 2008
Day 1- Dyeing
Just a warning, this is a big post with a ton of images. That said, let’s get started. Today was a dyeing day for me and I thought I’d document my whole process. Most of the images that I took are here, but there’s a few more in my flickr [...]
Posted in Dyeing on Feb 19th, 2008
I finished spinning up my smoky purple yarn this weekend so today I dyed some roving. Dye days are exhausting and long and hot. Nothing seemed to work out today. I started with the roving on the left, which is a firey red and orange. I kept running out of dye, this roving just seemed [...]
