Look – I’ve dyed a colour wheel and bits of yarn to match. I had quite a lot of fun dyeing those bits of cloth…. no – I didn’t dye those tiny little fabric segments, the actual fabric pieces are much bigger (fat quarters actually ) I find it quite exciting waiting to see what [...]
A spread of candy-like colour If I said that dyeing fabric is easy and straighforward I’d probably be lying! If I claimed to have this dyeing obssession completely nailed I’d probably have my fingers crossed behind my back. How do people do this for a living? Do they age prematurely? There seems to be so [...]
It’s a beautiful, sunny day just the opportunity for a little bit of fabric dyeing. Take a pile of white fabric, chopped up into fat quarters, plastic bags …. and a heap of different yarns. Step 1 – Turn the utility room into a laboratory Step 2 – Mix up the dyes. Handy jam jar [...]
Why the rose? No real reason – it’s just beautiful. It’s a really old variety of moss rose, sadly it only flowers once in a season. There’s none of this coaxing it to perform twice by chopping its heads off. So, we just have to enjoy it when it graces us with its prescence. Beautiful [...]
