Category Archives: Dyeing
RCYC 2013
An amazing amount of yarn has gone out this month, and all of it in time for Rose City Yarn Crawl (started yesterday, runs through Sunday). If you want to see me along with my yarn, I’ll be at the … Continue reading
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Tagged black trillium, knitting bee, rcyc, rose city yarn crawl, yarn, yarn harlot
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Where the Picture Should Be
Last night, under cover of darkness I delivered the 45 Degrees North restock & relaunch to Twisted. Four big boxes of fingering in all 30 colors and worsted in 16 select colors were dropped off, thus relinquishing my schedule to … Continue reading
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Tagged 45 degrees north, black trillium, dyeing, oregon, pebble sock, pebble worsted, portland, Twisted, yarn
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Monday Update: Fat Quarters
After last week’s winding adventure, in which we created a whole mountain of 25g skeins for the sole purpose of putting together a collection of colors for my new Spring/Summer 2012 booklet, there were a ton of fat quarter kits to be made. We laid the whole thing out on the floor and tried to pick things that went well together and/or contrasted nicely… Continue reading
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Tagged black trillium, fat quarters, fiber, gallery, kits, minis, pebble sock, photos, spinning, superwash merino, yarn
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Color Studies: Perse, Heliotrope, Blue Suede Shoes
I am definitely a blue-purple girl, as mentioned, and ultimately a purple-happy nut. I buy far more Purple and Black acid dyes than any of the others. Comparing some of my established colors seems like a good move to give folks a sense of how one color relates to or is different from other similar colors.
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Tagged black trillium, blue, color studies, dyeing, etsy, knitting, purple, shawl, yarn
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Color Studies: Pea Green
I have lots of yarn to get ready to deliver this week, so these colors won’t be appearing on the Etsy site until next Monday. The good news about that is I get to put up one more set of color experiments I did before next week, and then I get to put together a rather large collection of what I call “Fat Quarters”. Continue reading
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Tagged black trillium, blue, dyeing, green, knitting, mini skeins, minis, olive, pea green, shades, sun, tonal, yarn
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Down The Rabbit Hole
Dyeing large quantities of wool – big wholesale orders – is a lot like a rabbit warren. Each overlapping step takes on epic proportions when you’re talking about 400 skeins. Continue reading
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Tagged dyeing, large orders, merino, processing, wool, yarn
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