I spent almost the entire day dyeing skeins of alpaca. Each skein is 110 yards of white 'paca. Alpaca really absorbs the colors well and I ended up with some nice finished products. I mixed Wilton Cake Dyes in mason jars and dipped entire skeins in bowls of color or striped dyed them with a basting brush. I choose hues from yellow, orange, copper to blues and greens. I also finished plying a few hand spun skeins. I let all the skeins dry outside on a dryer rack in the sun. A perfect day for fiber arts. I am scrambling about as I have an expo at Forest Hills Eastern high school on Saturday where I hope to sell some of these beauties.
This skein is alpaca/llama mix. I had some Christmas bling to jazz it up a bit. It was dyed in walnut husks. I plied in a string of red quilting thread with tiny pom poms. I am imagining a nice scarf knitted up from this one.
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Dyed in walnut husks? Hmm... I must really learn more about dyes and natural dying.
ReplyDeleteGreat fall colors Tamara! I found out last weekend how much fun yarn dyeing can be. Hope to see you soon. Happy Fiber Arts Friday!
ReplyDeleteWith all this dyeing going on, I feel left out! I've got to try it. Lovely results!
ReplyDeleteOoh, I really love that last one!
ReplyDeleteHope I get to see these before they fly off the shelf! They are so cool!
ReplyDeleteWhat fun! I want to get into dyeing more next year.
ReplyDeleteWow! So pretty!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!
ReplyDeleteI love the pom pom bling!
We really need to have a natural dye play day sometime. I keep reading and still get confused. I even bought a kit from Carol Leigh and still feel confused...it's the mordent that throw me.
fantastic colors-I'm itchin to get at some dyeing now.
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