Tag Archive for hand dyed

Weaving and Spinning in Richmond: Soup and Roll day

Hi Everyone ! Welcome at “Weaving and Spinning” in Richmond. We had a fantastic day last Thursday, with the Creative Fiber ladies, we could all admire true artwork. Here are just a few of them: It was a concert of virtuosity amongs colors and techniques, everyone was wearing beautiful handmade garnments   A collective artwork: ladies at work on…

Cranberry Dyeing

Mission: Cranberry dyeing !

Dear All, After a successful try with Red Cabbage dyeing, I decided to make some experiment with expired Cranberry juice. Dyeing with fruits or vegetable juices is actually very easy. I soaked 5 balls of white wool in a tupperware, into 2 litres of cranberry juice and 2 spoons of Alum, for 5 days. I’ve been…

Mission: Red Cabbage dyeing

Hi Everyone, On Thuesday, a lady came at our meeting of the Creative Fibre Guild, to explain us how to dye basically anything we want, with very little means and a disconcerting ease. I had that dozen ugly balls of creamy wool which was sitting in my stash since such a long while… and decided…

Website news

Dear All, I apologize for the problems you encountered browsing this website these days. We have been hacked and I decided to turn this unfortunate event into something positive by improving the layout and building an online-shop in order to allow you to buy and knit the beautiful kiwi wool. So, lots of things are…

Blue shell hats

Dear All, Mary, a lady member of Creative Fibers, gave me a hank of beautiful blue wool. Blue is not my cup of tea… usually… but in this case, the colors were so bright that I immediately chose to make a hat with a shell stitch to emphasis on the changes of colors… and to remind…