Saturday 1 August 2015

Handweaving For Clothes....... progress so far.

You may recall in a previous post I mentioned that I was spinning some yarn to use in fabric for a dress I wanted to make.

 
This pile of gorgeous Kerry Hill, which was dyed using Landscape and Gaywool dyes turned into this....
 
 
And eventually this.....
 
 
By the end of September, in time for Yarndale, I hope it will be looking more like this....
 
 
At the moment I have plans to make two more patterns from Get Weaving, a skirt and another dress, so both wheels are currently busy and the dye pots is constantly on the go! Better get cracking.....
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2 comments:

  1. LA3 August 2015 at 05:30

    I am in AWE! What a great accomplishment! So...what colors will you be spinning next??? (You didn't mention what kind of wool you were spinning....is this from your sheep?)

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  2. Rachel Berry9 September 2015 at 00:21

    Thanks for your kind comment! This is wool from a breed called Kerry Hill and is a local breed here in the Welsh Marches which was developed at the time of the welsh flannel industry. I got the fleece from a local chap who shows Kerry Hill sheep but doesn't want their fleece - he was going to burn it all! I have got a project on the wheel at the moment which uses some of my own sheep wool combined with my own alpaca, more on that in a later post.

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