Firstly, thanks to my blog friends who have started reading my blog again!
Looking back over my blog is fun - you forget a lot of the little stuff. Here's some yarn porn from 2006 -
I didn't even remember that I was hand painting yarn back then. According to my blog, this was around the time I went to a Creative Fibre (spinners & weavers) retreat in Queenstown. Some of the Textile Emporium members were also there, although I didn't know them then. I was asked to go to the retreat to demonstrate dyeing in the microwave. I remember that some of the women were quite sceptical when I whipped the hot wool out and stuck it straight under a cold tap. They were sure that it would felt but of course, it doesn't - to felt, wool needs both heat and agitation.
Here's my more recent skeins. These are all single colours, with light, medium and dark variations. I currently have 1 kilo of wool that needs dyeing, and I hope to get that done today while it's fine and sunny.
4 comments:
Bright as can be in the earlier photo, and today delicate and muted, lovely shades. Up here it is warm, I see warm your way too. Are you still dying fabric? Great to read your words every day again.
Yes, I still dye fat quarters for quilters. Nice to catch up.
Yummy! Would be nice for a weaving project.
I need to find out about microwave dyeing for some mohair based wool I bought recently. Yours looks great. I like both looks, the strong and the subtle.
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