Wednesday, July 28, 2004
dyeing madness
The theme of the week has been dyeing. kool aid, food coloring, even real dye. As a result, my living room is covered in fiber! Ready for knitting and spinning.
The darker stuff is some brown BFL I got for a fiber exchange, dyed with kool aid and food coloring. The purple is some plain old wool. Last weekend Kate and I spent some time dyeing fiber purple, with Gaywool Acid Dyes. The roving came out nice and bright! The others are kool aid dyed. The one on the left is some of my handspun, and the middle two are fisherman's wool that kate did.
Here are the two latest, both of which I plied last night:
I'm trying to spin thicker yarn, and the orange one seems to be getting around heavy worsted. It's about 60 yards. The greens are about 78 yards. This is part of a bunch of green mixy colors and some solid greens I dyed a few weeks ago. I was going to ply the solids with the mixies, so it would sort of match... completely forgot. Once I get around to spinning the rest, it'll have to be knit into something stripey!
The darker stuff is some brown BFL I got for a fiber exchange, dyed with kool aid and food coloring. The purple is some plain old wool. Last weekend Kate and I spent some time dyeing fiber purple, with Gaywool Acid Dyes. The roving came out nice and bright! The others are kool aid dyed. The one on the left is some of my handspun, and the middle two are fisherman's wool that kate did.
Here are the two latest, both of which I plied last night:
I'm trying to spin thicker yarn, and the orange one seems to be getting around heavy worsted. It's about 60 yards. The greens are about 78 yards. This is part of a bunch of green mixy colors and some solid greens I dyed a few weeks ago. I was going to ply the solids with the mixies, so it would sort of match... completely forgot. Once I get around to spinning the rest, it'll have to be knit into something stripey!
