Tuesday, January 22, 2013

A Day of Dying

I actually dyed all of this before I came back to college. But with everything that happened with my laptop I never really got a chance to show you it all. All of these were dyed with food coloring.


Okay so first of is this lovely llama fiber I bought from a friend's grandma, it started out that brown color you see on the left. I let it sit forever in a pot with some red food coloring and it came out the lovely burgundy color.  I still have a ton of the brown left to dye but I can't wait. I think I will stick with red though because I don't imagine any other color looking that nice over it.


I honestly don't know what to say about this one. My caps were mixed up and what was supposed to be bright green and a tiny bit purple turned into this mess.  I just am not feeling it.



Finally are these little cuties, I realized that I have a drum carder but nothing to really card through it! So I took some left over plain wool roving and dyed it an odd group of colors. Next time I go home I will start playing with these and hopefully will have some more stuff to add it!

That is it for today, I hope you are all staying warm and are having a wonderful day!


2 comments:

  1. Oh I love the primary color bits of fiber! Lovely dye work, I'm so glad to hear from you!

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  2. Just beautiful! And I really like the dyed yarn: lately I've been really loving burnt orange and yellow. :) Also, I'm super-excited to see what happens with the bright rovings and your drum carder!

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