Category: dyeing
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Potholes
In addition to the nasty potholes in the streets I’ve run into a couple in the studio. :P~ Now that these three skeins are dried I realize that the mylar has broken in at least one place in each skein, sometimes two places. Now if these skeins were for my own use I wouldn’t worry…
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…and the Dye God(dess) Smiled
half of the yarn I dyed today…. The other half of the yarn is spinning out, soon to be hung (by the chimney with care?) Things went exceptionally well today. Both the cyan and magenta dyes set, almost immediately, all the dye vats exhausted and the yarn rinsed clear right from the get go. I…
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Making Headway
a portion of my store room with scarves/tea towels… I’ve managed to break through the lethargy that has been plaguing me this week and unpacked all the boxes (well, not all, I left scarves in two boxes for ease of storage) and put the textiles onto the shelves in my store room. Ideally I ought…
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Of Dyeing and Warp Winding
Winding three colour warp with cheat sheet When I’m winding a long or complex stripe sequence I post a cheat sheet above the warping board so that I can keep track of which colour comes next and how many ends of each colour are required. In this case my counting string will count not merely…
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Silk Yarn
50 skeins of silk dyed today The dyeing went quite well. I got four dyepots done (two colours per skein) and some of the colours are unusual but attractive, I think. The red/green at the bottom will look terrific with a dark teal weft – it will be hard to put these skeins up for…
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Silk Yarn
50 skeins of silk dyed today The dyeing went quite well. I got four dyepots done (two colours per skein) and some of the colours are unusual but attractive, I think. The red/green at the bottom will look terrific with a dark teal weft – it will be hard to put these skeins up for…
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Silk Yarn
50 skeins of silk dyed today The dyeing went quite well. I got four dyepots done (two colours per skein) and some of the colours are unusual but attractive, I think. The red/green at the bottom will look terrific with a dark teal weft – it will be hard to put these skeins up for…
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Dye Day
20 skeins of Bamboo Rain and 40 fifty gram skeins of 2/20 silk I bought this drying rack a couple of weeks ago, knowing I needed to do a lot of dyeing. Having gotten fed up with the two dinky racks I had and which were falling apart, it seemed time to buy something else.…