I am rather pleased with myself on my recent dyeing and carding experience though. Remember when I first started spinning I had some bright blue fibre on a spindle? Well, my spindle spinning hasn't improved much since then because I got completely obsessed with the spinning wheel, and I used some of that blue fibre and some silk hankie to spin up this. But I still had some left over that I wasn't sure what to do with, then I got some sample fibre in a jade marble colourway which was also too little to spin on its own, apart from that there was still a handful of scoured corriedale locks left from my spinning class... and all these little bits of fibre just sitting there looking at me as if to say "Come on, you've got to do something!" So I did, first I over dyed the blue fibre with some yellow food dye to match the jade marble, then I dyed the corriedale locks with blue food dye, and I carded all three together:
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Those batts are gorgeous and they do look like that artwork. They will be beautiful spun into yarn.
ReplyDeleteI love Monet!! And you're so right that's exactly what this looks like. I can't believe how far you've come with your mad fiber skills! You should be so proud of all you've accomplished. Next thing you'll be raising sheep and sheering them yourself! Have a great weekend.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! What a wonderful gift of color sense you have.
ReplyDeleteThe colors are definitely Monet. Great job on lovely fiber. Visiting from Wisdowm Begins...
ReplyDeleteWow, that's so beautiful! Now you need to make a hat with it and put a pink/red pompom on top :-)
ReplyDeleteYay for pretty batts! I haven't used my drum carder in too long. But I did get my wheel out recently, so there's that.
ReplyDeleteGreat colors in the fiber, they're amazingly close to Waterlilies. Nice job
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