Tag: dyeing
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Club boxes
We are often asked if we do subscription boxes or advent calendars and the answer has always been a firm no and then, if you’re really unlucky, a long explanation of why not, but we’ve changed our minds. We’ve decided to try a club box, a run of three to see how they go and
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Dyeing with Dock
Woollenmatters suggested a hashtag on Instagram to celebrate the humble dock as a dye plant. She had a lovely photo of four skeins ranging in colour from a rich yellow, through rust and tan and finally a dark brown. It was a quiet day and feeling inspired I thought I’d give it a go.
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Pink
There has been a bit of a pink theme this month. Having eaten my way through a lot of avocados lately I saved the stones and skins for dyeing. I froze the peel and stones separately, scrubbing them clean and chopping them up before they went into the freezer. In total I had 365g of
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Cornus Midwinter Fire
The Cornus needed pruning and a quick Google search says that Dogwoods give a blue dye.
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Natural dyeing with Eucalyptus bark
Before I played with wool I grew plants for a living, there were a lot of hardy exotics in my life and I still occasionally spend the odd morning at the nursery talking about plant production and happened to notice long strands of bark hanging from the eucalyptuses.
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Yarndale
It’s Yarndale in Skipton, North Yorkshire this weekend and we’ll be on stand 167 if you’re visiting. We have a new colour combination for the kits, below is Wren knitted in grape with a skirt in Liberty Tana Lawn meadow. On the website we have four colour combinations for each kit but at a show you
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Greenfinch
I’ve been dyeing stock for our first ever show at Woolfest at the end of next month and I have a new yarn base to play with. It’s a lovely springy South American merino 4 ply, very soft but still with some body.
