Sunday, March 27, 2011

Hand-dyed merino

I’ve been very busy lately, working on lots of new goodies for the winter season.
And not just knitted stuff, oh no, I will bring new yarns to the markets!
I have started dyeing super soft 8ply merino, beautiful to knit.

These are the colours I will bring to Devonport Craft Market, next Sunday.



I have a new range of beanies as well, knitted from the gorgeous merino.
Here are some samples.


I have dyed some cotton yarn in new colours.


And I have learned a lesson – even if it’s tempting to speed up the process,
never, EVER, wash the cotton yarn in the washing machine...


4 comments:

  1. Vilka fantastiska färger! Och helt underbart busiga beanies!

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  2. do you use natural dyes? and if so what natural dyes. I'm a huge fan of all your work, the world is a better place ffor having people like you in it...A

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  3. @Cottageorgan – thank you, what a lovely comment! :)

    For my merino I use Landscape dyes. For the cotton I have so far used a tie dye that I have imported from overseas. Next time I will give it a go with Procion MX.

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  4. Ha Ha love the yellow... betthat was a long winding job to get it into the hanks needed... but such a beautiful sunshiny colour...
    Love all your dyed colours... so absolutely dreamy...

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