Playing catch up after way to long of ignoring my blog. Upside, I've been busy here. I'll explain below.
This is a lovely gathering basket that was just handed down to me by my stepfather. It used to belong to his great-aunt. It's great for holding my yarns and I'm going to use it for display purposes when I go to shows.
This is some alpaca that I kind of forgot I had dyed up at least a couple years ago. I do remember that I dyed it at the Blue Party at Hillcreek Fiber Studio in Columbia, MO. it was put into a cochineal red for a short time and then into a black walnut yellow to get this orangy color.
This is where I started in on my Cotswold X, dyed at the 2016 Blue party. I dyed it with saxon blue and then put it into a blk walnut yellow exhaust. An exhaust bath is one where MOST of the color has already been taken out into a previous batch of fiber. This worked great for what I wanted, which was a touch of added color.
These 2 pictures are another bit of alpaca that I had forgotten about. it was dipped, probably at the same forgotten blue party, into a quick saxon blue. so it's got a much lighter color than normal.
Here's some regular saxon blue dyed Cotswold X, done in 2016. I have a total of 3 skeins worth of this. 1 for myself and 2 for sale.
This is a hat that I made with some icing dyed red Shetland. The wool is from our current ram, Niles. This bit of yarn was leftover from a custom made hat and scarf project. It ended up being a Christmas gift for my daughter's teacher.
