Artist Pamela Feldman walks through the indigo dyeing process with students.

1983 Hockey Hall of Fame postcard #C4 Babe Dye

Harlequin Ducks, Common Eiders & Purple Sandpipers at Dyer Point in Cape Elizabeth, Maine

I finally got around to blogging about dye!

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Dye, dye, dye my darling...

Wool soaking prior to today's dyeing session.

madder and other things

Just my dye spills, but so pretty

Attempted Father Dyer Peak, Crystal and Helen today but we were thwarted by bad weather (nasty clouds, high wind, cold, sleet) -- none of which is good for climbing exposed, class 3 ridges. We hung around for a while to see if it would get better, but it actually seemed to get worse, so we scrapped our climbing plans and just enjoyed the scenery and 4x4ing.

Morning alpenglow on Father Dyer Peak.

All natural dyes.

Top, left to right: chamomile/indigo; indigo/logwood; logwood; natural black alpaca; brazilwood; brazilwood exhaust

Centre, left to right: fustic; fustic/brazilwood; brazilwood exhaust; natural white

Bottom, left to right: chamomile/indigo; silks (brazilwood, indigo/logwood, logwood, brazilwood, brazilwood); indigo

Sunrise in Kopervik, Norway

Another crock of fiber stewing in the laboratory

The awesome Scenario Arms heavy mag and the Dye Rotor in the background

Besales Roller Trigger Sear

Eclipse Nexus Ram with Planet Eclipse QEVs (2), Clear

Shocktech Bomb 3-Way

Shocktech Rat Valve and Spring

CCM Hammer and Spring

CP Shorty Reg

Dye Microdrop

Smart Parts ASA

Hybrid Grip

System X Beavertail

(will be getting hybrid clamping feedneck)

The final results of the last week

Water, salt, dyes and roving ready to go.

Season 2, Episode DUCT-220 of "Uncommon Threads" television program (US) on the DIY Network and HGTV (first aired on January 29, 2007).

This episode features a needle felted version of Van Gogh's Starry Night, from dying the wool, felting and embellishing with beads.

The crafters are Dharia McGrew of Skeintily Clad, Dayna Mankowski of the Crafty Scientist and Sarah Brueck Stallings of Three Cat Nite. All three are appearing as members of the Artisan Women of Worcester.

You can see full instructions for this project on the DIY Network website: www.diynetwork.com/diy/shows/episode/0,2046,DIY_14255_487...

After dyeing, I've been lately setting it in the microwave to heatset.

This is the yarn resting and rinsing in some water and woolite. Cooling off.

Dye was neon pink and neon purple, though I used quite a bit so it should be deeper.

Artist Pamela Feldman walks through the indigo dyeing process.

At a textile cooperative in Chinchero in the Sacred Valley

Dyeing fabric in Amritsar, India.

After a dyeing session.

Thankfully the weather is beautiful so as to get nearly 3kg of fibre and yarn dried!

old arch bridge over Dyance Beck, County Durham

Low tide at the cove at Dyer Point in Cape Elizabeth, Maine

My first time ever doing poodle feet/face and dying a poodle. It's a lot easier to dye a compliant dog (read: Bonaparte) but this didn't turn out too badly when you think about it. He looks really cute, although the deep blue isn't deep enough IMO so you really don't see a "fade". Oh well, next time.

Dye in water.

We got 3 packs of dye. BOOM.

Using Dharma Trading Company Procion Reactive dyes.

Dyer family at the McClain Cemetery in salt Lick, KY standing behind the graves of their gg-grandfather and gg-grandermother.

4 balls of light blue Rowan Polar, overdyed at Tracy's Dye Day party. It's still pretty much the same color, with shades of turquoise and navy. I haven't decided what I'm going to knit with this yet.

first time working with mulberry silk

I've never dyed fiber before - just yarn. This is before I added more water and smooshed (technical term) the fiber and dye around. At the far end I put a tiny bit of dye, which is supposed to turn out yellow, but has bits of blue and green in it. It mixed with the red to create a disgusting brown. Thankfully it eventually did turn yellow and not hideous.

Lafayette - Dyer

(Dendrobates tinctorius)

Rinse - noticing some rogue grey spots

If you want authentic, savory and superb Gullah food, Dye's Gullah Fixin's in Pineland Station shopping area on Hilton Head Island is the best.

This is our 6th year to come to HHI, and we've finally found the best local food.

Dye's family has been on the island for generations. She opened her restaurant two years ago. She tells of her father, shortly before he died, telling her that he only wanted her to do one thing for him: Follow your dream and open that restaurant that you've been dreaming of for years.

Karen & I made reservations for Friday night's special buffet, which features dishes not normally on the menu, but which are Dye's family favorites.

We're glad that Dye followed her father's wish and followed her dream.

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Poor dye absorption at the ties.

Part of my woad dyeing project

Dyers Burgers located on Beale Street in Memphis TN