• Home
  • About
    • Contact
    • About this blog
    • På dansk?
    • Indlæg på dansk
  • Shop
  • Plant Dyeing
    • Dye plant list
    • Plant yarn gallery
    • Plant Dyeing Blog
  • Yarn & Fiber
    • Weaving
    • Spinning
    • Acid Dyeing
    • Plant Dyeing
    • Knitting
    • The Nettle Page
  • Chit Chat
    • Books & reading
    • Thoughts
    • Show-and-tell
    • Links
    • Farm Life
    • Garden
    • Critters

Colour Cottage

~ little house in a field

Colour Cottage

Tag Archives: denim

Dye day

17 Saturday Nov 2012

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

≈ 9 Comments

Tags

blue, brown, colour, colourways, creativity, denim, dorset, farvelade, green, inspiration, purple, red, sheep, sock yarn, suffolk, wool

I decided to clean out my dye shelf and start afresh, running out of 1% “clean” colours and lots of little leftovers cluttering the place that I no longer remember the formula for.

So I dug out my bin of Suffolk fleece and just kept throwing chunks and dyes into a couple of pots of vinegar water, keeping them hot all the while.

And then I got all excited, mixed up a new batch of each dye and began mixing again to dye the rest of the fleece. For some reason all my different reds turned out a pretty similar orange, but that can be fixed….

This means I’m done “spot” dyeing my Suffolk fleece, apart from the batch I’m going to flick and spin as is or comb on my superfines.

I’d love to process the rest on a drumcarder however, because it’s not in any kind of lock formation, so I’m going to leave it for a bit to see if I can get a hold of one. Possibly spend idle hours (a concept I once read about) picking and flicking so the VM is gone.

It’s been separated into colour groups, each one will be a yarn I think.

Recently I also dyed some more Shetland for my sweater project

And a couple of sock yarns that are supposed to look like worn denim.

Share this:

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest

Like this:

Like Loading...

Tags

acrylic acrylics alpaca appreciation art autumn berries black blogging blue brown cat cats clothing colour colourways cotton country life crafts creativity determination DIY dog dorset dyeing environment equipment exercise experimenting fabric fatigue fiber friday flow flowers forest funyarn garden gardening green greenhouse grey health hexagon hexiflat horses inner conviction inspiration intention kitten leaves life link love loom mad science merino mixed media modifier mordant natural dyeing nature nettles oak orange paint Painting pets Photography Photoshop pink plantefarvning plants procrastination purple quote reading red relax seasons silk snow solar dyeing spring studio suffolk summer sweater tapestry tools trees video weather weaving wildlife winter woad wool writing yarn yarn along yellow

Blog at WordPress.com.

Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
  • Follow Following
    • Colour Cottage
    • Join 729 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Colour Cottage
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...
 

    %d bloggers like this: