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Summertime! Ring-a-ding... is that the ice cream truck? Oh snap! Where the heck did I put my dollar! Run!!!
Hand spun into a thick and thin yarn in a super fun, stripey combo of yellow, red, blue and orange from one 2oz batt.
This skein contains soft and puffy merino and falkland wool. All of the wool has been hand dyed by me and carded up into a lovely super puff of a batt from which it is then spun. Just the right amount for some funky doll hair!
made using repurposed fabrics - felted jumper and wool blanket. It reminds me of a ginger nut biscuit.
Blogged.
Well, not exactly what I was hoping for, but it was a good learning exercise. In retrospect I could have left the yarn in the dye bath overnight and I think I may have gotten closer to the colour I was going for. Switching to small skeins (no larger then 25g) of sock yarn for the next few attempts is the way to go I think.
January 15, 2015 -Day 15 (A whole lot of 15's!)
A deep dark colored batt of reds, magentas, and black. Lots of sparkle with angelina, too. For sale at:
so close to my camera for this
really likeing this angle for wire wool though makes it different from all the other spinners
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These are inspired by laps pattern and tradition. 100% wool and felted in a clear white winter color. The red buttons are for decoration.
2 skeins beaverslide 100% Wool
4 oz each
2 ply fisherman weight wool
4 oz 210 yards each
1 skein nightshade-purple
1 apple green
I don't know what this sample will become, but I kind of like it. Last week, I came across some fabric that was ready to be tossed out & I decided to rescue it. October 1st is Felt United & the colors are red, blue & purple. This is a sample piece I felted to see what the fabric can become.
Araucania Nature Wool in #31
100% wool
3 skeins, 720 yards
Even after all my searching, I found one more color of Nature Wool that I forgot to upload. I guess this one won't make it onto the mosaic! Oops!
Second from the left was dyed with a natural substance called logwood-I am going to buy some as I love the colour.
However, the rest were dyed with an American powdered drink called Kool Aid-no chemical fixant required! If it can do that, what is it doing to children's insides?!
They are fabulously easy to use though-make it up with some water, chuck the wool in and either boil or microwave. Or you can make them up concentrated and paint them on, then clingfilm and steam.
The last in my series of 'elements' blended wool batts (earth had to be abandoned after I found Giles' the brown ryeland's fleece was too full of VM to be useful).
This is a blend of English wool from one of my sheep (Cordelia), tussah silk and British alpaca from Coldharbour Mill, plus a sprinkling of golden angelina. Inspired by fluffy clouds on a summers day.
These are the green skeins I'd gotten out of the dye pot all in one go. The really dark green was dyed as yarn in the pot, the other two were added after the dark green was half set, to pick up the rest of the dye in the dye pot, as there was still a lot that hadn't been exhausted. I like pouring clear water down the drain as much as possible. The bottom of the greens, was put in as yarn and was spun from Paradise Fiber's Barefoot Blend, so it's Sock Yarn. The top one was just a couple of feet of the superwash Yellow Oops from the Wool Shed, which sells Brown Sheep seconds that I threw in and then spun finer for a different baby sweater.
These skeins will become at least one baby sweater and maybe some booties or a hat or something...