Archive for April, 2009

A few of the fibers I have done for our next stocking on IDC

Around a month ago, I posted on my favorite forum, DSD, a PSA to remind everyone to LABEL their dyes.  Because while I was trying to kettle dye my rainforest colorway, I accidently used navy instead of brown.  The resulting fiber was very nice though.

Apparently I have not learned my lesson.  Tonight I’m trying to perfect kettle-dyeing (I’m getting there!) and was going to do a pinks colorway on some seawool – well, I grabbed navy AGAIN instead of the pink I wanted.

*sigh*

I’ve been attempting to kettle dye roving all weekend, I’m on my third batch right now.  The first was 8 oz of Falkland, and I really like how it turned out, even though the colors are not right.

And my second attempt on seacell/wool

And at the moment I’m working on some milk protein – that isn’t coming out as planned either.  I’ve got a learning curve on this method of dyeing, that’s for sure!

I had a whole long post written out and I pressed something I shouldn’t and lost it all.  *sigh*  However it was all nonsense so the short of it is, I have everything back like I want it and now here are the goodies!

Please bear with me, there was a glitch in the blog and I lost all my newer posts, and layout.