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Tag Archives: pink

Pattern testing 2

06 Monday Feb 2017

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

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clothing, cotton, crafts, experimenting, panels, pink, summer

bluetunicI’ve been working on sewing patterns again, after not making any trousers from the muslins I developed last year – I wanted to be sure I didn’t grow again this winter and would be unable to wear them the coming summer! My handwoven fabric takes too long to make to be used just once, and I could just buy t-shirts, but then why would I weave? I don’t use scarves, tablecloths or many of the other things I could think of making. And G has declared that he does not want his sofa filled with hippie weirdo COLOURFUL cushions, blech! And for some reason, although fashion does nothing for me, I’m quite fascinated with fabrics and drape and keep collecting images of flowing, colourful clothes. In the end I had to make a Pinboard so that I can spot any personal trends after a while, in addition to the one I keep for clothes from panels. (We’ll get back to that eventually)

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Mute Monday

25 Monday May 2015

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colour, colourways, cotton, fabric, pink

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Spring colours

11 Saturday Apr 2015

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Farm Life, Garden, Photography, Yarn and Fiber

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colour, colourways, cotton, flowers, garden, green, orange, pink, seasons, spring, sun, weather

Aaaand once more the garden is waking up, bit by bit. Another step up in temperature and I think it’s ok for my one forced rhubarb to come out of hiding.

I hope there’s going to be a very special photo project for me the next few months, but more about that later.

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Dyeing with poinsettias – julestjerner

10 Saturday Jan 2015

Posted by Pia in Plant Dyeing, Yarn and Fiber

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An Herb Scented Life: Natural dyeing with poinsettias.

Since I still have no means of photo editing and not much to say either, I thought I might reblog some relevant posts now and again. This is one dye experiment I haven’t tried myself, and was surprised at the result!

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So quiet

16 Tuesday Sep 2014

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Thoughts

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autumn, blogging, flowers, garden, life, pink

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I’m not in a good place at the moment and have nothing much to say. I quit Facebook and my brief intermezzo with Twitter, I’m unsubbing various newsletters as they appear in my mailbox. Reducing the noise. Focus on the work. Whatever that is.

Perhaps I’ll post the occasional project photo, probably can’t resist. In any case I’ll leave it all up since I have quite a few people looking at the plant dye articles. Funny how they turned out to be the most popular ones! There will be likes on your blogs, I’m not going away, I just may not have anything interesting to contribute.

In fact, becoming wordless could prove an interesting exercise overall.

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Thirtyseven

12 Friday Sep 2014

Posted by Pia in Books & reading, Chit Chat, Garden, Knitting, Weaving

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clothing, flowers, life, pink, seasons, slow, sweater, wool, yarn

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Back on the loom

31 Saturday May 2014

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

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crafts, intention, kitten, loom, pink, purple, yarn

Purple warp turned around in a completely different configuration. Yeah, I know I’m the only one who will notice 😉

While I’m trying to get back in a painting groove, it’s nice to have something else to do waiting for layers to dry, so I don’t just end up here, clicking, losing time and mind.

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Otherwise just a pretty lazy Saturday. I should get my rain gear and go water the strawberries! (because the hose is leaking on me) I need to soften and till the ground a bit so I can sow some lettuce.

What with headaches and feeling fed up with house work I’m way behind on the weeding, and they’re threatening to take over my projects. But I’m hoping for a bit of rain to help me, hacking away at concrete will amount to very little besides more headaches and sore hands! And I don’t want to run the sprinkler all over the garden for it. (especially because I tend to forget about it and let it run for 3 hours in the same spot)

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Goodbye, purple warp

29 Thursday May 2014

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

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crafts, loom, pink, purple, wool

I had high hopes for you, but we can’t stick together like this.

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(For the non-weavers, there is supposed to be a triangle open shape between 2 rows of thread, where you run your bobbin or shuttle of yarn through to the other side)

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Purple stare

28 Wednesday May 2014

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

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crafts, haiku, life, pink, purple, relax

My coffee is cold.
Threading heddles, very zen.
Mistakes happen.

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Colour explosion

20 Friday Sep 2013

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Knitting, På dansk, Plant Dyeing, Yarn and Fiber

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colour, fiber friday, hexagon, hexiflat, inspiration, pink, wool, yarn

I went to my LYS the other day to ask for the Addi Click Heartstoppers I’d ordered (not there yet) and to get a couple of black skeins of the yarn I’m using for my hexagon blanket, since I’ve now decided on a stained glass effect with the edges. (fwiw, does anyone have a clue why my edges make the hexagons skewed? I count and I count to get the increases at proper intervals, testing 1 more or less stitch when I start, they’re all the same. It’s driving me nuts with this black yarn)

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Only this brand has come out with new colours. Sitting on her desk as I was waiting. So I had to take one of each (well, not quite, I left the pink one behind), just so I could keep them to look at. Really, I have no idea what to make of them. They are SW extra fine merino, so technically they are wearable, but they’re also not very elastic so I doubt they’d make a great hat. Shawl-scarf?

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I wanted to test cochineal – which I’ve never used before – over yellow to see if that made orange (it doesn’t), so used a couple of small goldenrod hanks I just dyed. And since my small items scales are wonky, I used far too much cochineal, so I ended up dyeing 3 larger hanks as well as some silk. Whoa! My eyes hurt! I wonder if they’ll turn purple in indigo…. I have a somewhat 20 skein experiment lined up, but that will be later. It’s a grey day today, trust me, the colour is even more vibrant up close and personal!

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Jeg var bare nede i garnbutikken for at spørge til de Addi Click hjertestoppere jeg har bestilt og for at hente lidt sort Arwetta til kanterne på mit hexitæppe. Og så havde hun lige så uskyldigt lagt nye farver frem på sin disk, som jeg var nødt til at tage med hjem! (pånær den i pink) Nej, nej, hun vidste ikke jeg kom, det var helt tilfældigt.

Pink har vi fået nok af denne uge, jeg havde spekuleret på, hvordan gult ville se ud overfarvet med cochenille, bliver det mon orange? (nej, det gør det ikke) Men jeg havde fået vejet for meget af, fordi min mini-vægt er lidt i udu, så jeg endte med at farve 3 fed mere + lidt silke, og det er da lige før man får ondt i øjnene! Jeg spekulerer nu på om de bliver lilla, hvis man overfarver med indigo. Jeg har et større eksperiment linet op med de små biller, men det bliver senere.

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