Much as I love dyeing and bead-Weave-it-ing, duty occasionally calls and I find myself back at the designing board. Tonight’s excursion was a variation on a theme, specifically the “Loomette Weave 14” theme. Read More →
I realize that pictures of freshly dyed yarn drying on a rack can lose their appeal after a while, or awhile (long time/short time). Yet the thrill of doing the dyeing does not die. How many times have I dyed now? I feel like Phil in Groundhog Day.
Today’s harvest
The two hanks of yarn on the outside edges were once what we call white in the wool world, though off-white, or natural, is more accurate. In the past several days, I’ve woven up the other yarns I dyed and noticed I was lacking a yellow representative, so I MADE MY OWN! (Yeah, yeah, I made all the others too, but it still thrills me that I can make what I need right here at home.)
Yes, we’re also missing blue and lavender squares. This will never do . . .
The two skeins in the center of the drying rack photo were gray–hand spun by yours truly. That emerald green is not my usual fare–I have to make mistakes to get out of my comfort zone–it was meant, ahem, to be blue. So, great news, I still have some dyeing ahead of me. And, to get the colors I want, I’ll either have to buy more Wilton cake decorating gel dyes or actually mix up the Pro Chem stuff I bought last year. (Which do you think is going to happen first?) In the meantime I’m spinning up my undyed merino wool so I can truly own this project!
In other news, I wove a Fourth of July tree with beads (and yarn). It’s a toss-up between weaving with beads and dyeing–which I enjoy more. Luckily, I don’t have to choose. I can do them both!
Happy Independence Day, a few months early.
Some people call it browsing the internet; others call it research, shopping, etc. I was doing that thing earlier today when I ran across a marvelous, but unpurchaseable, contraption.
Hazel’s Adjust-a-Peg Loom. (Not associated with Hazel Rose Looms. In fact, it appears that to be a member of the current loom market you need to have a color or two associated with your product–such as Hazel Rose, Blue Butterfly. Except for Zoom Loom.)
I snagged a few pictures from http://www.knitting-and.com/blog/hazels_adjust_o/, but there are more. What an utterly spiffy little object! With this one loom “I could, dare I say it, rule the world” or, well, no, probably not. But I sure wanted to try it!
It occurred to me that I own an object kind of like it. My gadget is for shaping wire (a sport I gave up on some years ago).
Wild Wire implement–with attempted 3-pin configuration
Last Saturday I took a class called “Dyeing with Kool-Aid” at Harmony yarn store in Provo.
Strawberry, Pina, and Lemonade Kool-Aid combined on this 4 oz. skein of Lamb’s Pride yarn.
Dyeing yarn was so much fun and the results were so amazing, I had to try it again . . .
Monday. Several colors of Kool-Aid combined to make these colorways.
. . . and again.
Tuesday: These skeins were dyed by my visiting teachers and me. From L: Cheryl Jean’s, mine, and Tawny’s.
I dyed one more skein on Tuesday, but neglected to take a photo while it was drying. I used a weird pearly-looking Easter egg dye on it–one envelope of pink, one of yellow–but there wasn’t much dye, so added pink and yellow Kool-Aid too.