I did a photoshoot for a benefit clothing company Dye.To.Tell. (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dye-To-Tell-Apparel/120363073992?ref=search)

check out their facebook and help donate!

This shoot was so much fun minus the extreme Georgia heat. I shot mainly around the PCS Studio Warehouse/Goat Farm..but I would have not been ANYWHERE without thanks to Wil Hughes for his help! :)

Dying Times

Yet again the "dyers" are out of service.

This is pattern I've tried before but I used the wrong yarn which made it unwearable for me. Someone else might get it one day but until then I wanted to have a proper go at it. The Striped Nursing Shawl pattern that I got off Ravelry has a frill around the bottom but since I'm not fond of frills I omitted that and just made it straight garter stitch. All the yarn is recycled yarn from a jumper I bought from an op shop. I've no idea what its fibre content is but it must have some wool in there somewhere because it did felt slightly when I gave all the skeins a bit of a wash after they'd all been dyed. It was a kind of pale insipid bluey-lilac before dyeing. I love it now. The colours are so vibrant and it's so soft and warm! Glad I saved this yarn to make it with :)

Uncle Scott sporting his tie-dye when he came to visit from New Jersey.

Recycled sweater wool/angora/nylon.

the dyeing tradition continues.

bread + circus eggs + dudley's colouring cups (dye pellets + vinegar). i didn't mean to use brown eggs, but it resulted in a very arizona-watercolour type of colouring. pretty nice.

the bowl is handmade (thrown, glazed, and fired!) by one of my roommate's girlfriend. so beautiful and japanese inspired.

Food dye on milk dispersed with detergent.

Indigo dyeing class at Sincere Sheep, 9/10/2017

Yarn dip

Dye Creek Preserve

Dye tracing in the Peak Cavernn Main Streamway

Madder and Lac

Dye Team hard at work at RIAT - Day 2.

Natural Dye that a woman at the Pisaq market was selling.

This is a photo from class last year. The assignment was "snack food in unusual places." This was not the final print - it needed more burning. I was recently experimenting with natural photo dyes. I steeped some sumac & let this sit in it for two hours & this is what happens. I really want to get back in the darkroom.

Creative techniques, some great dyed materials to take home and a lovely scarf

Dyeing cotton thread indigo to sew with

I was bored last night and had a brain fart - why not add dye to water in a plate and take pictures of it?

So I did.

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

This is post-microwave, during plastic removal.

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

On ground near base of several european larches (Larix decidua). Brackets often emerge from roots. A pathogen causing root and butt rot in conifers (Wikipedia). S side Hutchinson's Field, Milton, MA 9/9/07

SALZ Tokyo Yukata

Got to meet with Tracy who I met on ravelry.com. She taught me to dye using food coloring in the microwave. Opened up a whole new world of possibilities to me.

Creative techniques, some great dyed materials to take home and a lovely scarf

Creative techniques, some great dyed materials to take home and a lovely scarf

Creative techniques, some great dyed materials to take home and a lovely scarf

Dyer, Charles, Stoker 1st Class, SS/112284, HMS Invincible, Royal Navy

Born Derby, 14th December 1890

Killed in action 31st May 1916 aged 26

Son of Elizabeth Caroline Dyer, of Canal Bridge, Willington, Derby. Native of Repton.

Commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire

1911 Census

A hotel ostler

A servant in the household of Ernest Walton, a hotel keeper, of The Rose and Crown Inn, Cornmarket, Derby

Also commemorated on the Willington Memorial

Olympus digital camera

Got to meet with Tracy who I met on ravelry.com. She taught me to dye using food coloring in the microwave. Opened up a whole new world of possibilities to me.

Dye Headstones in the Meighen Cemetery, as they appear on 7 August 2013, approximately One Year after their Placement. These are the Markers for James and Mary Dye.