just pics, folks. i'll caption them, but that's about all i've got time for at this exact moment...
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| our newest family member |
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| my first attempt at edible-food coloring dying. the white is wool, the brown is alpaca, and the mesh bag holds angora. |
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| the setup. used 2 sets of dye, just the green, blue and pink tablets. as the two sets were different brands, the colors were slightly different, leading to interesting color variations later. |
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| all the dye has been added, and the yarn pressed into the dye. had to add some water to bring the level up to an acceptable point. |
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| my drying rack full of dyed batts |
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| a re-carded batt containing an odd bit of dyed wool and the dyed alpaca (the two skinny bits on the left of the photo above) plus some white wool. yes, i know it's a horrible looking batt. but as i'm planning on using it all myself, i don't worry about the slubs too much. |
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| the batt above, spun fine. |
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| the finished yarn, chain-plied into about 50 yards of tweedy gently-shading yarn. |
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| two of the three matching batts i dyed, pulled into rovings |
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| some of the same wool, spun up |
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| the finished yarn, plied 1-dyed, 1-plain white wool. about 400 yards total, and should stripe wide stripes of color. |
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color is a bit off on some of these, but the best i can do what with the never-ending rain around here.
