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Colour Cottage

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Tag Archives: colourways

Monk

06 Friday Jul 2018

Posted by Pia in Show-and-tell, Weaving, Yarn and Fiber

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clothing, colourways, cotton, crafts, handwoven, inspiration, weaving drafts, yarn

It’s taken me a long time to write this post, simply because the project never seemed to be quite done. It still isn’t – but now it’s on hold until I make it round to that end of the circle.

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Rhino

05 Thursday Oct 2017

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Painting

≈ 8 Comments

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colourways, life, relax, seasons, virus

I have a whopping cold for a change, so I’m going to try the tiny post thing for a while, à la small stones. This is only my second cold in maybe 10 years, I keep forgetting how horrible they can be!! 🙄

Title: 3 project beginnings, shared palette.

Further development will, hopefully, eventually, appear on the paint blog. Achoo!

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Wardrobe colouring

08 Wednesday Feb 2017

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Sewing, Weaving, Yarn and Fiber

≈ 22 Comments

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clothing, colour, colourways, fabric, obsessions, swatch

monks sampling08

Today’s post is related to the previous one. As before I still struggle with my taste for colour, and every time I think I’ve developed a colourscheme of just 3-4 shades, I keep finding a few extras that would also go well. Some of them overlap into the next group, others are completely different. From buddhist monks’ robes to pale greens and blues, from intricate patterns to solids. My brain overloads completely with colours from nature all the time, any season. I could make swatches and sketches as a full time job and never get beyond that.

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Waffles:

14 Wednesday Dec 2016

Posted by Pia in Show-and-tell, Weaving, Yarn and Fiber

≈ 13 Comments

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16/2, 45/10 reed/3pd, colourways, cotton, yarn

waffle01One of the things I’m working on right now, when I’m not elbowing my way through a month’s backlog of house and other cleaning. Mucking is exactly the appropriate word! I hope it won’t land me with another month long backache, because then it’ll just be a selfperpetuating nightmare, won’t it.  😉

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Untimely

14 Monday Nov 2016

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Knitting, Photography, Spinning, Yarn and Fiber

≈ 17 Comments

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acceptance, blogging, clothing, colourways, handspun socks, health, intention, life, pain, relax, seasons, time, weave drafts, wool

a day ends

a day ends

I’d like to begin this week with a warm welcome to all the new subscribers that seem to be adding my blog these past few weeks, whether you’re actually here to read or just hope to make somebody read yours. I’m afraid you’ve chosen to join me for the slow season, as my back has been out of commission again and my head then needs to adjust to sitting tasks only, with not much to show or tell just yet. I hope some of you will stick around for later antics!

This also coincided with planned weaving, carding and spinning work, which means I spend an inordinate amount of time just sitting here thinking about them, making endless weave drafts and colour samples. I need to find a plugin/app/whatnot that makes swatches from photos because just using the sampler in PS does not give me the vibrant shades I see with my eye/mind and it takes too long. Any suggestions? I prefer one that is installed, rather than having to upload single photos to a website each time, as I tend to work in batches. Oh, and it needs to be for Windows – I found a really cool one, Mac and i-things only. Continue reading →

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(slightly) Disappointing survey

07 Friday Oct 2016

Posted by Pia in Acid Dyeing, Yarn and Fiber

≈ 4 Comments

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colourways, cotton, fiber reactive dye, poll, procion

45 people viewed the post, “only” 13 voted. I’m not impressed, people, get in the game! It’s just a little mouse click – I expect much better turnout next time. 😉 And now it’s too late obviously, you know me, either I move fast or not at all.

I had another think and decided to change course and not listen to any of you (us), since the votes were so close anyway. Many thanks to those of you who played. Continue reading →

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Colour survey

28 Wednesday Sep 2016

Posted by Pia in Acid Dyeing, Weaving, Yarn and Fiber

≈ 10 Comments

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colour, colourways, cotton, dyeing, fiber friday, poll, yarn

fugly

I came upon 4 cones of chenille some time ago and the colour just never made me happy. I simply wanted to know if anything interesting could be made with this type of yarn. Anyway, I decided to get some fiber reactive dyes and see if I could change my aversion. Continue reading →

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Well, did she make it then?

26 Monday Sep 2016

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Photography

≈ 6 Comments

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autumn, CFS, colourways, determination, drive, fatigue, health, intention, life, longread, nature, plants, relax

crabappleI left you last Monday saying I wasn’t quite up to speed in the sleepiness department. Spent the afternoon trying peppy music (I usually prefer spending the day in silence) and preppy activities such as winding yarns for dyeing, and cutting up an old fiber board for taping papers onto while painting. Thank goodness for power tools, brrrrm, zoom, done.

Then I was extra careful not to vaccuum up any of my good pens with the saw dust, but proceeded to do just that of course, getting it stuck somewhere inside the machinery. That extrication process took longer than all the rest, but such happenings are just part of any normal day around here. Gets your pulse up. Continue reading →

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A little spin

21 Wednesday Sep 2016

Posted by Pia in Show-and-tell, Spinning, Yarn and Fiber

≈ 15 Comments

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autumn, colour, colourways, dyeing, spin data, wool, woolly wednesday, yarn, ypp

Did you begin to think I’d given up on all the yarny stuff? Not so – just part of the cycle, a bit of this, some more of that, and on it goes.

It’s been so long since I’ve made yarn, because building the studio, because sciatica, because kittens vs. wheel climbing. Nearly had to give it a miss this time too because of a “sprained” wrist, but luckily it resolved itself with a day on ice. Continue reading →

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Sock it

22 Monday Aug 2016

Posted by Pia in Acid Dyeing, Knitting, På dansk, Shop, Show-and-tell, Yarn and Fiber

≈ 7 Comments

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colour, colourways, håndfarvet, space-dyed, stash busting, strømpegarn, variegated, wool, yarn

Yet another planned post has been postponed today in favour of “smaller” stuff. And so it goes, lah dee dah.

I found a couple of skeins of undyed sock yarn that called to get stash busted, so first step was having fun with colour obviously. I decided to get a little ahead of times and do autumn colours – 4 skeins isn’t a lot to work with, considering I have about a million colour combinations waiting in my head, and then it turned out I had run out of 4 essential colours, so that’s a completely different kind of planning game. Continue reading →

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