Tuesday 17 June 2014

A Colourful Weekend

As the weekend was pleasantly sunny and warm with no breeze I thought I would dust the dye pots off and get a fair amount of dyeing done. I ended up with quite a pile of lovely dyed fleece ready for the end of the year when I won't be outside in the garden and will be able to spin it all up with an eye to making socks and rug yarn.

 
This is some Romney fleece that I bought last year at The Cotswold Farm park on my birthday trip. I'm thinking that I will spin this up into a 3-ply sock yarn.
 
 
This second batch includes some Cotswold fleece (bottom left) which I dyed in Gaywool Madder-Orange with a sprinkle of Gaywool Honeycomb. It looked fantastic in the sunlight!
Other colours I dyed included:
 
 
Gaywool Tomato Red
 
 
Cornflower Blue
 
Hopefully if the weather stays nice I may be able to get more dyeing done as I have lots of colours I want to try out and I'm going to buy some new ones at Woolfest which is only TEN days away!!! Yippee!!
You remember that I mentioned that my son Nicholas had been to Normandy for the D-Day 70th anniversary celebrations. Here is a link to his blog with a few photos of his trip. Please take a look and I'm sure he would love any comments.



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  1. What beautiful colors! Lots of spinning ahead for you!

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  2. That should keep you busy on the spinning front.

    I'm hoping to make it to Woolfest too (this time next week it will be over for another year!).

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    1. I shall be on stall K262 - in the bit with the folk music - come along and say hello!

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