Sunday, October 3, 2010

Natural dyeing day!

We had a natural dyeing day for my guild yesterday, and I thought I'd post a couple pics. I'll add FO pics later once I use up all the fiber I dyed. I made 8 2oz bags that each had some silk, merino, and angora in them to toss into dye pots to get a bunch of colors in each fiber type. I also dyed 4 2oz rovings of milk fiber doing dip dyes.
silk, merino, angora in each color
(copper, indigo, red onion/indigo/walnut, cochineal, yellow onion/?, yellow onion/lac)
milk, silk merino angora
(lac/marigold/alkanet, indigo/alkanet, cochineal/alkanet, marigold, lac, marigold)

The silk, merino and angora that were done in lac normally wouldn't be this dark/strong colored, but I had so many bags of fiber that I forgot where I put them all and this one stayed in the lac for a little over 2 hours lol. So it sucked up a LOT of dye.