RavenWeave Art

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

First try at dyeing yarn

Dee came down to dye some yarn with me. She just took up learning to knit and I feel it's my duty to feed her interest and encourage her to be just as obsessed as I am...
Hey, what are friends for?

Culinary Colors dyes from the French Creek yarn shop. Pack of 10 colors with foodie names. Nutmeg, strawberry, blueberry, lime, tangerine, lemon, grape...broccoli (!?!)

One eighth of a teaspoon + a half cup of water + a teaspoon of vinegar.

Soaked the yarn for a couple of hours and laid it on Saran Wrap to start playing. Dee wore an old shirt and it actually stayed that white the whole evening...

This was dyed the colors of Biscuit, my sun conure,

Biscuit

Wrap and nuke for 5 minutes (Irish beer optional, but a totally good idea)

Fresh out of the microwave -- one hot, steamy yarn sausage -- Yum! :P

The hanks after rinsing, hanging in the shower

Also dyed some roving for spinning

And some silk throwster's waste

And some silk hankies

My first spindle

After going to French Creek and seeing spinning on person, I was dying to try it! But being married to a woodworker, I couldn't bring myself to pay $40 for a dollar's worth of wood...

Tjay built this for me from drawings I made...in about 20 minutes

My first try at spinning! It worked beautifully!!

Cyber Fiber

My second piece for Cyber Fiber -- first one never got there.

Crisp Point postcard

This was for the EPU challenge, but I missed the call for the pics. Schloss Neuschwanstein in Bavaria, with a woven background to represent the Bavarian flag. I did an image transfer for the castle and that was new for me. Lots of fun.

Organized my little knitting yarn stash. (which used to fit in that little white tote on the far right..)

Just pictures

My little felted Hedgehog -- I think it's a German thing...

The feeder TJay built for Mom

Gratuitous cute Buck pic

Knitting with Dee at Alex's

Another cute Buck pic

Fiber Heaven...

My friend Dee took me to Avon Lake while she was home from school. I have parrots. Five parrots. This store and I were meant to be together. It's in a huge barn. The first floor is all quilty stuff and fabric and upstairs is a little bit of yarn heaven. Srsly! And even more awesomeness is across the way from this most awesome place -- French Creek Yarn and Spinning. Dee was almost embarrassed when I started drooling -- it was THAT cool.

Sweet!

I would have happily bought almost everything in the store -- especially upstairs. This sock yarn was most beautious.

Couldn't resist these these big chunky yarns and some to try dyeing.

I had to have this...cause the Yarn Harlot says you can't have too many tape measures. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it. (you poke it in the eye to reel in the tape -- cool)
http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/